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.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      RAID1 combined with a separate backup drive on a different machine (Raspberry Pi with a USB->SATA drive bay works). ZFS with EEC RAM helps a lot, too (as another poster mentioned).

      No, it’s not a full 3-2-1 backup solution, but you have to spend quite a bit as a data hoarder to actually get that. As far as I can tell, few data hoarders actually have a 3-2-1 backup without squinting about the details. Having any backup is better than no backup.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      4·
      5 days ago

      In like 5 years we’ll all have self-hostd LLM agents and you just send the lil’ bastard on YT to scrape the audio in higher bitrates all over again. It’ll be FINE.

      I also have MP3s that are 20+years old at this point, and they were bad rips in the first place. Some of them from CDs that skipped during the rip. bitrot on this low quality MP3 I’m too lazy to re-get is on me.

      • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Honestly, the community should make such a tool.

        Since the argument is that LLMs scraping content isn’t piracy, if we just “scrape” the songs with a LLM it’s protected use.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        heh I’d like to trust that plan for sure

        yt-dlp already tougher to use today than in years past—and assuming everything will survive new content deals, uploader purges, etc. is optimistic

        • hansolo@lemmy.today
          3·
          5 days ago

          It’s an arms race. YT is hard to use, then someone comes up with a great new front end that works for a year, lather rinse repeat.

          • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

            Authorized-hardware only when 🤔

            Then we’re back to Telesyncs - will be cloud services with device + camera farms to help us rip videos that must be viewed on specific devices - those that pass checks ensuring the only output is on the screen itself

            Then they’ll work on anti-recordable screens? :)

            • hansolo@lemmy.today
              1·
              5 days ago

              It’s coming. Android just announced they are going to make devs ID themselves and prevent side loading, so all those great new open source front ends were just given a terminal diagnosis. For now.

              The walled gardens are being walled in like medieval Carcassonne or Dubrovnik. Foreigners viewed with suspicion, only lifelong residents allowed full rights.