Comments on: Foo Fighters’ bassist abhors clutter

By: Miss Lisa

Miss Lisa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:33:23 +0000

There’s always the problem of sound quality. I think digital (particularly rock music) files sound pretty thin. Big thumpy bass seems to demand big clunky storage units (like [shudder] records). I’m kind of surprised he doesn’t mention that.

By: popoff

popoff — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:51:39 +0000

Keeping everything on Your hdd IS another way to clutter. I realised that when try to solve the problem of over a 200 cd/dvd backup collection that arose during the decade. It is fun of course to move it once more to another external storage device after a cleaning that makes it twice smaller piece of data to keep. But in a matter of fact what is a difference beetwen 1000 cds collection and a 50GB backup of it?
The way is to download, listen, learn, remember and delete. Since I’ve started listening to the music this way i feel more like opened to discover and explore new genres of music.

By: samu

samu — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:15:29 +0000

Keeping everything on hard disks is great indeed; I long for the day when ebook readers advance to the point at which I can do the same with my books as I do with my music and video.

But:

Backup. Backup. Backup.

And remember, if you only have two copies, you don’t have real backup. If they’re all in the same place, you don’t have backup at all.

By: Bags

Bags — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:03:25 +0000

I just plain old gave up on CDs. About a year ago, I got an external hard drive for Christmas. I immediately filled it with all of my music. A few months later, someone broke into my car and stole hundreds of dollars wort of my CDs. My date, who had left her door unlocked, felt really bad. I didn’t really care, cause I had all of my music backed up on the hard drive. Digital, and clutter free are the way to go.

By the way, who steals CDs now a days? Seriously. That’s SO 1998.

By: JohnnyRocket

JohnnyRocket — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:06:22 +0000

I was tired of moving my CD collection from state to state, apartment to apartment. Realizing that I had every CD already removed from the cases and stored in sleeves, I took all the front inserts from the empty CD cases and threw out the cases. The inserts took up an insignificant amount of space compared to all those boxes. It felt great to get rid of the several garbage bags of CD cases.