Moving house has made me re-think physical media

[beeface]

I hate moving house

Can't stop thinking about the fact that copious boxes of books, records, CDs and DVDs could be replaced by a NAS, a couple endpoints and a Kobo.

Sorry. Just wanted to rant a little

I hate moving house

 

[BeeKay]

Or a streaming account, phone and IEMs only if you want to take it to the max.

 

[raif71]

I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too. Next time you should not add to the amount of physical media so that moving to another house will not be harder than it is now.

 

[MattHooper]

And you could look at every piece of art in your house on an iPad instead.

Not the same

 

[alex-z]

Ripping them for convenience is a good thing but I would never replace physical media. Streaming gives a much lower profit margin to the artists and unlabelled low quality remasters are a plague on the music industry.

 

[beeface]

And you could look at every piece of art in your house on an iPad instead.

Not the same

I hear you, but I don’t entirely agree with that analogy

 

[Matt_Holland]

I hate moving house

Can't stop thinking about the fact that copious boxes of books, records, CDs and DVDs could be replaced by a NAS, a couple endpoints and a Kobo.

Sorry. Just wanted to rant a little

I hate moving house

The thought of ripping copious amounts of CDs and making sure all the metadata and album covers are correct is more stressful than the thought of moving house.

 

[beeface]

The thought of ripping copious amounts of CDs and making sure all the metadata and album covers are correct is more stressful than the thought of moving house.

True

I am just really lazy tbh

Maybe Spotify is the life for me after all

 

[Purité Audio]

Just rip the stuff that isn’t on Quboz/Tidal/Spotify.
I ripped everything years ago a complete pain.
Keith

 

[Matt_Holland]

True

I am just really lazy tbh

Maybe Spotify is the life for me after all

For max convenience, best sound quality and features, but the closest approach to using physical media would be Roon with all your favourite albums saved to the Roon Library. That way you can browse all your albums covers and enjoy reading cover notes and other associated metadata. You’ll need a Tidal or Qobuz streaming account for Roon. When you add albums from either of those streaming services it appears in the library alongside any locally stored files (e.g. the albums you own but aren’t available to stream).

 

[raif71]

Just rip the stuff that isn’t on Quboz/Tidal/Spotify.
I ripped everything years ago a complete pain.
Keith

when ripping it is recommended to do it slow... ripping fast causes unnecessary pain

 

[Matt_Holland]

when ripping it is recommended to do it slow... ripping fast causes unnecessary pain

I was all set a few years ago to rip my collection using Exact Audio Copy until someone recommended Tidal. I dodged a bullet there.

 

[Snarfie]

I gave a way my complete lp collection years ago which are for me obsolete an ripped my cd's an a few lp's (cd's are a piece of cake instead of ripping lp's). So when moving i'm pain free for sure no streaming media for me besides to check out music. Running now 3TB of audio data on a SSD where ever i live house wide.

 

[Snoopy]

And you could look at every piece of art in your house on an iPad instead.

Not the same

True but for some things like Books, I’m glad I went with a Kindle. I currently got 800 something books on there. There is no way I could store that somewhere in a Apartment type of Living Situation.

And I’m glad I got rid of my Movie Collection and replaced that with streaming.

CDs are also all ripped, wouldn’t even cross my mind to play one.

vinyl is a different story. I like to play them

 

[BeeKay]

And once you are at it …

Minimalism means getting rid of unnecessary ballast. Like superfluous objects, rusty friendships and activities that serve no important purpose. Only what brings joy and is satisfying remains. Minimalism maximizes what is meaningful and valuable. It has nothing to do with renunciation, deprivation and asceticism. Those who live a minimalist life do not waste time, money and energy on unimportant things and get more out of life.

 

[Sgt. Ear Ache]

I'm there too. I no longer accumulate physical media. No books or CDs and certainly no vinyl. I still have some of each...lot's of books actually. And I don't look forward to moving them when the time comes. I actually prefer E-reading now. However, I have a large collection of comics/graphic novels and those I like having the physical for the art work. Just not the same digitally. The only problem is that in reality I almost never take one off the shelf and look at it so I ask myself why I need to even have them taking up space. They just sit there collecting dust. It actually feels like a burden more than anything else.

For music, I haven't used physical sources in more than a decade.

 

[Sgt. Ear Ache]

And once you are at it …

I aspire to minimalism. I'm not there yet at all lol. I'm a consumate consumer who regularly gets "hooked" on things and goes down rabbit holes and then ends up with STUFF. Camping gear, watches, folding knives, bluetooth speakers...ugh. I do my best to maintain some sort of control and mostly do ok but I could definitely do better. At the very least though I am pretty good when it comes to the "bang for the buck" factor. I look for good stuff at the lowest price.

 

[Ken1951]

We have a few CDs and a few DVDs. We listen to Pandora, XM's SPA channel, and have a fair amount of music purchased from Apple that we listen to in the car or stream to the big system. We watch loads of streaming, much of which is either French or Korean. The French shows are mostly what's behind our upcoming trip to France in September. I have donated almost all of the books I've collected through the decades except for the large number of Sci-Fi which I gave to one of our sons. Like others I have a very large number of books on Kindle which I use on an iPad. I don't miss the physical media at all. My LPs I also sold off about 15 years ago.

 

[HalSF]

 

[coonmanx]

I hate moving house

Can't stop thinking about the fact that copious boxes of books, records, CDs and DVDs could be replaced by a NAS, a couple endpoints and a Kobo.

Sorry. Just wanted to rant a little

I hate moving house

Books...

I don't have many. What is the point of keeping a book if you have already read it? I usually just donate the book to the library when I am done with it. That way they can have it for inventory and lend it out, especially if it is a popular modern book.

CDs. I like them and I have a few. If there are some that are not being listened to then they might just go to a used CD dealer or even the library as well. No use in hoarding. Keep the ones that I like the most and will actually listen to. Also CD-Rs that I have are in paper sleeves and don't take up much room. The total space needed for all of my CDs is probably less than two shoe boxes.

I have one DVD. It's a concert DVD of the Raconteurs.

It really is a matter of prioritizing and downsizing. Most people just have way too much crap. Free yourself! Give it away!