Hey everyone,
Back home I have a NAS with most of my quad/5.1 stuff backed up as multichannel FLAC. Since I'm away most of the time now, I figured why give up surround, so I bought a cheap set of creative 5.1 speakers and backed up the whole collection to a portable 2 TB seagate HDD. When I don't have time to use the speakers I play with the files in audacity (fronts=left, rears=right) or run them through the Dolby Headphone wrapper on foobar that kinda sorta works (stereo is really the last resort if you can't tell). Needless to say it's easy to get used to walking around with almost 400 surround albums in your pocket.
Unfortunately the drive bit the dust earlier this evening and I am now left with just a few albums that were on google drive. Everything is of course safely backed up at home, but I'm wondering how I should proceed when I try this again. Definitely won't rely on a mechanical disc again. SSD? TB USB sticks? Divide it all up among a bunch of smaller USB sticks? SD cards?
I'm open to suggestions...
Does anyone else carry around their collections? Most people probably just play their discs and spin their records....but for me it will be hard not having instant access for a while.
Thanks
Back home I have a NAS with most of my quad/5.1 stuff backed up as multichannel FLAC. Since I'm away most of the time now, I figured why give up surround, so I bought a cheap set of creative 5.1 speakers and backed up the whole collection to a portable 2 TB seagate HDD. When I don't have time to use the speakers I play with the files in audacity (fronts=left, rears=right) or run them through the Dolby Headphone wrapper on foobar that kinda sorta works (stereo is really the last resort if you can't tell). Needless to say it's easy to get used to walking around with almost 400 surround albums in your pocket.
Unfortunately the drive bit the dust earlier this evening and I am now left with just a few albums that were on google drive. Everything is of course safely backed up at home, but I'm wondering how I should proceed when I try this again. Definitely won't rely on a mechanical disc again. SSD? TB USB sticks? Divide it all up among a bunch of smaller USB sticks? SD cards?
I'm open to suggestions...
Does anyone else carry around their collections? Most people probably just play their discs and spin their records....but for me it will be hard not having instant access for a while.
Thanks