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The Pros and Cons of Dropping Your Hard Drive
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 01:16 amLong story short:
I dropped my hard drive on the floor. It stopped working. The only stuff that wasn't copied elsewhere was music. I bought a big new hard drive. I copied a metric crap load of music from my brother's computer. I copied files from a whole bunch of MP3 CDs. I copied a bunch of music from my ex (from a hard drive that used to be mine). In the end, I have a lot more music than before and still have most of my original collection.
( Long story long, a clear indication I'm not meeting my Write More Succinctly goals )
Current library stats (including a few thousand missing songs, excluding some audio books, but including others I haven't reclassified):
178,731 tracks
495 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes, 59 seconds
1,021.56 GB
8158 distinct artist names
12673 distinct album titles (lots of Some Album Disc 1/2 titles need to be fixed)
845 genres, though some are frivolous
Largest folders:
Time spent on this project: Way too much.
Next project: Figuring out a genre/world music arrangement scheme so when I'm in the mood for something I have some idea what my options are.
I dropped my hard drive on the floor. It stopped working. The only stuff that wasn't copied elsewhere was music. I bought a big new hard drive. I copied a metric crap load of music from my brother's computer. I copied files from a whole bunch of MP3 CDs. I copied a bunch of music from my ex (from a hard drive that used to be mine). In the end, I have a lot more music than before and still have most of my original collection.
( Long story long, a clear indication I'm not meeting my Write More Succinctly goals )
Current library stats (including a few thousand missing songs, excluding some audio books, but including others I haven't reclassified):
178,731 tracks
495 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes, 59 seconds
1,021.56 GB
8158 distinct artist names
12673 distinct album titles (lots of Some Album Disc 1/2 titles need to be fixed)
845 genres, though some are frivolous
Largest folders:
| "Artist" | GB |
|---|---|
| Compilations | 91.83 |
| Various Artists | 11.82 |
| Unknown Artist | 9.95 |
| Frank Zappa | 7.63 |
| Grateful Dead | 6.82 |
| Arte Flamenco | 5.8 |
| King Crimson | 3.45 |
| Martin Simpson | 2.58 |
| Oregon | 2.56 |
| Pink Floyd | 2.44 |
| Tom Waits | 2.38 |
| Cocteau Twins | 2.08 |
| Yo-Yo Ma | 2.01 |
| Bob Dylan | 1.99 |
| Kronos Quartet | 1.96 |
| Joni Mitchell | 1.96 |
| John Hartford | 1.95 |
| Pablo Casals | 1.93 |
| Lonnie Johnson | 1.92 |
| Johnny Cash | 1.84 |
| John Fahey | 1.84 |
Time spent on this project: Way too much.
Next project: Figuring out a genre/world music arrangement scheme so when I'm in the mood for something I have some idea what my options are.
