With the talk of music streaming/ownership, spotify, bandcamp, etc...
How big is everyone's music libraries? I recently moved my entire collection from an old hard drive to a SATA SSD and just went past 400GB with over 80% of my library being FLAC from ripped CDs, Bandcamp downloads, qobuz purchases, OTOTOY purchases, piracy, etc.
The total size might be a little bigger than what the data shows because I also keep high res jpgs of all my album art (usually a minimum if 1000x1000, but I'll go as high as 5000x5000 if available.)
(Also gentle reminder to keep backups of you libraries!!!)
Oh that's fantastic, I didn't know foobar could give me the percentages! Almost wall-to-wall MP3's in here, biggest chunk of which is definitely video game music. (Including another batch of original sound data which I have yet to go through and convert specific games into a more listenable form.)
I'm realizing I started stashing MP3s originally via a PC with a 4GB hard drive. FOUR GB! Some of these files likely ended up on zip disks at one point just to conserve space. Probably why I never prioritized lossless early on. Never was able to distinguish a difference in quality most of the time, at least on any poor speaker setup I ever had.
I remember one interaction chatting with another user on Napster, asking why they had the Final Fantasy stuff at 48kbps. They said it saved a ton of space and was still listenable. Lmao, those poor stuffy sounding files... I have updated those items to higher quality since then.