💿Few things bring as much joy as rescuing musical treasures from the thrift store and adding them to my collection. My daughter, who has never known life without internet, views my CD ripping like I’m a doomsday prepper.
@gregmoore @jasonmcfadden Not paranoid at all. Between the unreliable nature of internet-dependent software and the desire to actually listen to your music as instantly as our super computers allow, it makes all of the sense in the world to me.
I now think of streaming services as additive to files and physical media, not as a replacement.
@SimonWoods @gregmoore Likewise; I’m increasingly concerned with siloing my files in proprietary apps/services/clouds. Ex: Apple Photos with HEIC/HEIF images inside a packaged container. I at least want my jpegs in folders I can manage. I’ve set to download originals on my Mac.
@SimonWoods I have the same view: any data that isn't on something I can physically access is "other people's data" that they can take away at any time.
@mindofaaronw Just an inexpensive external USB-C drive from Amazon.
@JohnPhilpin LOL, yes you are doing the right thing.
@jasonekratz Thanks for that correction; I wasn’t aware. Also, I found the same about the Photos library package with originals. Glad that’s there. I checked, too, and Lightoom supports HEIF.
