Qhwoeprktiyns Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Nice article! I find using the "sync storage services", without actually "synching" to be a good option for those who have relatively small music libraries (full upload < 1 day) with files that are not constantly being changed (i.e. tags modified). The obvious drawback is that you need to remember to manually add your new files/changed files regularly, the advantage is that you don't risk accidentally replicating file deletions in both your local storage and cloud storage (as you pointed out). For "smallish" libraries, you could regularly do a full backup. For large libraries, especially when files are frequently updated, this options is probably not workable. You can also deactivate "synching" and reactivate it when needed. These types of issues, by the way, highlight the fundamental disadvantage of having music metadata managed within music files (as tags) - but that's an entirely different topic :) Dan Gravell 1 Link to comment
Qhwoeprktiyns Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Just now, Dan Gravell said: You have to be careful with that though. If you don't automate this there's a good chance you'll forget, or something else will get in the way. Humans are best at creativity, not routine - we get easily bored - "I'll just skip it this month, it'll be fine". I know, I know, some of us are better than others but... Put another way, it depends on the value of the library. Absolutely - and I just started an other full upload after reading your article ! Dan Gravell 1 Link to comment
Popular Post Qhwoeprktiyns Posted April 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, DuckToller said: As I feel that cloud data services (perhaps except for the Norwegian ones) have proved unreliable in terms of price, quantity, customer data protection and life cycle, I may consider using them only for selected items which are the core of the music I am usually listening to. Which is far less than 5 % of the collection and would be more playlist oriented than complete albums. Deciding on a backup strategy some time ago also led me to re-organize my music collection and store in a separate folder/location those albums which I had accumulated over the years but practically never listened to. I have a local back up of all my albums, but only do a cloud backup of my "favorites" (1TB of Flac files at the moment, but growing...). Dan Gravell and DuckToller 2 Link to comment
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