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How do you find media to watch?
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If you want to automate look into the "Wikiarr" but to answer your question I think many of us are just data hoarders. I try to delete stuff I've watched but I also tend to keep stuff that I've had trouble finding good versions of. I am also building a large music library (currently around 200-250gb) and that's entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services. Most of this collection I either already owned (used to rip ipods id repair for people) or used soulseek/other tools to build.
Personally I'd replace that 10 year old drive as it's probably limited on remaining life even if only lightly used.
Definitely data hoarding is a big part of it for me. I seem to be instinctively getting myself setup for some sort of doomsday scenario where the Internet is gone, but power still works and I have enough leisure time to binge watch movies lol.
But yeah I also have things like offline Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg with Kiwix, and I don't pirate books but I do DRM strip them so I can keep a permanent archive and stuff like that.
What is your preferred format for music? I use Opus at 192 kbps since I prefer open-source and it supposedly is "near-perfect" quality, but I know a few people who store FLACs instead.
I think it's important for OP: I too do store music that I like because I want to avoid to continuously pay for crappy streaming services. Most of my music is bought from Bandcamp, or ripped from CDs that I had previously bought. It needs some tweaking to make those files available on a smartphone, but it's worth it.
Usually only FLACs for future proofing my collection.
Most is may be fake FLACs but whatever.
If you're worried about fake FLACs, why not test them?
Throwing your songs into a spectrum analyzer is just super fun too
Anything you can recommend?
I use https://github.com/alexkay/spek
Anything you can recommend?
I will be changing the drive out some time soon since storage is so cheap nowadays and the disk has almost ~35k POH
I'd second that last paragraph. At least download a tool to check your HDD out- I saw crystaldiskmark used in an LTT video and decided to install it and check out my drives. Turns out one of them has 60,000 hours on it and it's seems to be starting to fail.