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I have a folder of MP3s, some of which date back to 1999, just a few years after the format was popularised. Most of them have utterly terrible names (think RIDEONAM.MP3). I think at this point they might even survive the heat death of the universe. And they'll still be terribly-organised.

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I can't possibly calculate how many hours I spent curating my music library. I don't use it anymore but you better bet that I still have it saved to the cloud and locally and it's there in case I need it.

Some of this stuff I downloaded off the original Napster.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm amazed you still have the old files. I was late for Napster but I downloaded loads of individual files from kazaa/limewire/frostwire and used them to burn CDs.

Only a few years later though I would get into torrenting and replace pretty much all those shitty old low bitrate files with 320kbps mp3 discographies.

Many years later after college when I finally had a little extra money I started buying all my favorite CDs I discovered from the previous meana and ripped them myself to ~1000 kbps FLAC and meticulously tagged and organized them into my current music collection.

CDs are unfortunately getting harder and harder to find and I've only very recently started torrenting a little again, and I prefer everything be FLAC but if it's not available I still do have some 320kbps mp3 left in the collection.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Everything I could find that was of higher quality, I downloaded over time. I have some bootlegs though along with some music I've found from no other sources. I'll never replace some of it, but that's fine.