Best way of archiving music collection

gerelmx1986
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Best way of archiving music collection May 16, 2021 12:58:19 GMT via mobile

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Post by gerelmx1986 on May 16, 2021 12:58:19 GMT

Hi buddies. What method of archiving do you think it is better to safeguard a music library?

Optical media such as DVD-R DL or Blu-ray XL 📀
Hard drives (traditional platter based either external or internal) 💾
Flash memory media such as USB Sticks, SSD, (micro) Sd cards ⚡️

Online locker such as icloud. One drive etc ☁️

I used to use DVDs but since having all lossless I’ve switched to three 4TB external drives plus two 1TB cards

Player: NW-WM1A chameleon V 2.0 by MrWalkman
Headphones: MDR-Z1R | Koss Portapros
IEM: IER-Z1R | IER-M7

gerelmx1986 Senior Member Posts: 440	Best way of archiving music collection May 16, 2021 13:28:59 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by gerelmx1986 on May 16, 2021 13:28:59 GMT I know now this may be silly with streaming. But some of us have very large libraries
	Player: NW-WM1A chameleon V 2.0 by MrWalkman Headphones: MDR-Z1R \| Koss Portapros IEM: IER-Z1R \| IER-M7

nc8000
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Best way of archiving music collection May 16, 2021 13:37:31 GMT gerelmx1986 likes this

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Post by nc8000 on May 16, 2021 13:37:31 GMT

I have my entire library stored on a Synology nas. Monthly I back the nas up to one of two usb hard drives. I also have it all locally on my Auralic streamer and the red book versions of everything is on the 1Z and A55. Also an aac 320kb version of everything is on a sd card in the car stereo

Home: Auralic Aries Mini > Sony TA-ZH1ES > Sony MDR-Z1R (Lavricables Grand silver 4.4 cable)
Home/Travel: Sony NW-WM1AZ (NP Audio EXPm2.5, Walkman One fw WM1Z, J3, PlusV2, Alt dac) > Sony IER-Z1R (Dunu Blanche silver 4.4 cable)
Home/Travel: Sony NW-A55L (Walkman One fw WM1Z, J3, PlusV2, Alt dac) > JH13 ciem (Dunu Blanche silver 3.5 cable)
Portable: iPhone13 Pro > Sony WF-1000XM4 or Earin M2

gerelmx1986 Senior Member Posts: 440	Best way of archiving music collection May 18, 2021 14:29:42 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by gerelmx1986 on May 18, 2021 14:29:42 GMT What about these M-discs, DVD+/-R and BD-R 25GB (SL), 50GB (DL) and 100GB (TL). I don’t trust dual or triple layer optival discs, i always had problems with DVD+R DL, they went bad pretty quickly
	Player: NW-WM1A chameleon V 2.0 by MrWalkman Headphones: MDR-Z1R \| Koss Portapros IEM: IER-Z1R \| IER-M7

TheBandicoot
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Best way of archiving music collection May 18, 2021 22:41:42 GMT

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Post by TheBandicoot on May 18, 2021 22:41:42 GMT

Thankfully my library is small enough that an SSD or Flash memory is enough to have it backed up on.

A lot of my music is purchased from QoBuz and I can re-download everything I've ever bought using their app on my iPhone, and again onto my laptop.

Aside from that, Vinyl rips are stored on my computer's SSD and I distribute to flash memory to go into my Walkman.

It's been a solid setup so far.

DAPs: Nayparm'd ZX300 (w/MrWalkman's 'One' CFW)

IEMs: Sennheiser IE600, Sennheiser Momentum In-Ear (Backup that refuses to die)

Cans: Sony MDR-MA900 (Resistor's removed - 4.4mm output someday)

Best way of archiving music collection

Post by gerelmx1986 on May 16, 2021 12:58:19 GMT

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Post by TheBandicoot on May 18, 2021 22:41:42 GMT