Ivor is either too rich or has too much time on his hands.

If i wasn't given an iPhone, I'd never have bought one. I absolutely detest Apple. I had to go in to an Apple store the other day and the whole experience was just awful, so full of pretentious gets that think because they're paying twice the price for a computer that it is better.

Slightly off topic, but

iPods will be a thing of the past in 5 or so years as streaming on phones becomes more popular.
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out of those 25K songs how many did you pay for?


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My dad's music collection, so I have absolutely no idea.




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I think bruce willis or somebody like that is suing so he can pass his collection onto his kids. ?

I own around 300gb of music on my computer, I would say I own about 40% of that on vinyl. The rest of the stuff I have has either been old cds or 'illegal' downloads although over half of those are music that is either out of print or never released digitally.

Also with movies, I own around 1000 digitally, half of which I have owned on VHS or DVD but which I have since got rid of.

Downloading is fine if done together with spending money on products and as countless reports have shown, the people who download usually spend large sums of money on physical products too.

Ivor is either too rich or has too much time on his hands.
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I am 30 so my collection has been amassed over 15 years or so.

Cloud players are overrated. I do not want to rely on an Internet connection or someone else's servers to listen to my purchased music.

I will stick with my iPod classic, thank you very much

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Once we get consistent 4G coverage there will be no reason to store songs on mobile devices, when you can instantly stream what you want.

Surely if you're allowed to pass any other item that you own down through your family, then a music collection should be no different, just being data shouldn't matter at all.

I would purchase music by less known artists or talented chanteuses affiliated with a major label but need the leg up to take a foothold in the music firmament , for e.g, Laura Mvula.

Other than that, i neither purchase movies nor music.

Then again, i do have an inveterate cinema habit!

Ivor Hardy

I agree, for the time being anyway, I don't trust any online clouds, I ideally want things physically or at least on digital form on a HD I physically own.

Once we get consistent 4G coverage there will be no reason to store songs on mobile devices, when you can instantly stream what you want
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When you have the likes of Amazon deleting accounts for no good reason, there is plenty of reason to keep your music offline.

I don't trust any online clouds, I ideally want things physically or at least on digital form on a HD I physically own.

Once we get consistent 4G coverage there will be no reason to store songs on mobile devices, when you can instantly stream what you want.

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I did a report on 4g for uni the other year. We're still a year or so away from having solid 4g coverage through the major cities in the UK. It is billed as being a massive upgrde, which it is, though the cost of it is going to be passed on to the user. Something like £50 a month for a phone with 4g connections, and the download limits haven't changed, so you can still only get like 1-4gb downloads over your month, and going over with 4g is a hell of a lot more expensive.

http://enthusedmusingsandnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/online_piracy_1325095416.jpg

Made me laugh in the day when the music industry used to baulk at recording music onto blank cassettes, even though they didn't mind selling C60 and C90 in places like HMV

When you have the likes of Amazon deleting accounts for no good reason, there is plenty of reason to keep your music offline.

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Why has amazon deleted your account? Cloud storage is just brilliant. Most of my work documents are backed up online only and its so handy being able to access stuff where ever I am on any device. Same with music, no storage space on my phone is taken up by music, video or picture files. So much easier.

Why has amazon deleted your account? Cloud storage is just brilliant. Most of my work documents are backed up online only and its so handy being able to access stuff where ever I am on any device. Same with music, no storage space on my phone is taken up by music, video or picture files. So much easier.

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IMO, you should use cloud storage as just another avenue of back ups, you're taking liberty with your data if you don't have at least 1 extra physical back up. Personally, I have 2 external hdds where I back things up to.

They didn't delete my account but their have been stories down the years of how people have had their accounts deleted for 'breaching the ToS' that is so vague that it is impossible not to breach.

This is why all of my music is downloaded to my external HD; and I have downloaded my e books, stripped the DRM and stored them offline.

Özil Da Silva

What cloud storage do you use?

I've looked into it and tried a few, mainly for storing photos and I've never been impressed. Like I said I own a large library of MP3s and the best cloud for storing music was pretty useless when trying to listen to it when out and about.

IMO, you should use cloud storage as just another avenue of back ups, you're taking liberty with your data if you don't have at least 1 extra physical back up. Personally, I have 2 external hdds where I back things up to.

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I own 3 or 4 external hard drives at the minute but I have been backing up to the cloud for about 2 years now and have never come across any problems. At first I backed up to both a physical hard drive and the cloud but backing up to the cloud is just so much easier.

I think music piracy is more harmful than movies.

It's very quick and easy to download music - legally or illegally - even with a crap internet connection.

To download movies in proper dvd/bluray quality you need a lot of bandwidth and a large hard drive. And you'd be bonkers not to back it all up which can end up being expensive.

Personally, downloading stuff for free is what exposed me to a lot of music/films that I would not otherwise have been aware of - and I then subsequently bought those tunes/films legally. I.e. "piracy" actually benefitted both industries in my case.

I just think that, with movies in particular, the fact that someone downloads a film does not necessarily mean that they would otherwise have bought that film (whereas with music they probably would have done as tunes are so much cheaper than films).

I spend as much as I can afford to on movies so if I was to download one, it does not mean that I would have otherwise bought it by any means.

Only using one place, that isn't really in your control, for a back up is just asking for trouble. At least imo. I wouldn't suggest that you backup to a physical drive every day/week or anything. Maybe just when you do something especially important, or monthly. Just leave it running overnight and you have a lot less to worry about.

If you haven't backed up anything you have on your cloud, then it goes down or there is an issue, then you're completely fecked.

What cloud storage do you use?

I've looked into it and tried a few, mainly for storing photos and I've never been impressed. Like I said I own a large library of MP3s and the best cloud for storing music was pretty useless when trying to listen to it when out and about.

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For documents I use Google Drive. For Images I use Sky Drive (I know what your thinking but I love it) and I use spotify for my music. Never had a problem with any of them

Never had a problem with any of them

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That is how it always is, until one day there is a problem

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