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Post by atYevP »

beagle3 wrote: post #204
Garthex wrote: post #188

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I learned that the hard way a month ago when I found that all my photos from the past 6 years that I had been storing on Dropbox had been mysteriously deleted :( Storing != backing up Still trying to let go of ever having those visual memories again. Certainly you're right that it's no one's fault but our own, but that doesn't make the lose any easier to deal with. I do blame Dropbox though, considering I'm a paying…

No cloud experience myself that sounds useful to you, but BackBlaze seem to be everyone's favorite around here -- but do note that they are purely a "backup" rather than "storage" service. They delete stuff you have not backed up in the last 30 days. If you have a removable drive that you backed up to backblaze, it must go through their program again once every 30 days, or they will consider this abandoned. Ask yours…

Yev from Backblaze here -> You're not wrong. In fact we recommend having an on-site backup FIRST, then moving on to other backup mediums. I wrote a post about it -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/. Online backup is great, but local backup will always be quicker to get data on to and off of!

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Post by vidarh »

zzalpha wrote: post #214
vidarh wrote: post #209

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I find that interesting because I mostly use streaming services to find music I buy. Largely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough (you'd think that my commute from a densely populated London suburb, along one of the highest density commuter routes in Europe, in to Central London would have decent mobile data coverage, wouldn't you... But you'd be sadly mistake…

Largely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough If you have an Android phone: Google Play All Access. You can offline content to your phone as if you own the music, but you get full access to their complete library. It's pretty brilliant, IMO. Edit: though that doesn't help you if you're looking for a radio-like service... I tend to listen to albums at a time, an…

Once I've decided I like something, I tend to want to actually own it.. Play's opaqueness when it comes to telling me what's DRMd and what isn't (may very well have changed - I haven't bothered checking in a very long time, and to be honest I don't know whether they've ever had DRMd music at all, because their lack of transparency with respect to video content and ebooks mean I never bothered even looking at their music section) has kept me away from using it at all for content.

It's the discovery I find annoyingly troublesome.

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Post by lsergius10 »

lcfg wrote: post #205
FooNull wrote: post #13

I'm sooooo glad I was paying a yearly fee for a VIP membership... and now I can't even get a copy of my playlists. All of those obscure songs I fell in love with are gone. I wonder if the information they turned over included my credit card billing data... Is it time to build a personal, private, self-hosted, open-source grooveshark clone?

You can probably recover your playlist. (Instructions for Chrome) On the computer you used grooveshark on: visit the website, open developer tools, open "resources tab", click on local storage->grooveshark.com. Now find the key called 'libraryXXXXXX' where the X's are numbers. Right-click it, "edit value" and copy/paste that data here: https://json-csv.com . Source of instructions: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comme…

I just made an account on this site so I could tell you this, but you just saved the last four years of my music collection. I can't tell you how incredibly thankful I am right now.

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Post by monique66 »

I can't believe that grooveshark's actually gone. there was a time when it didn't work on our computer, and it was awful. Grooveshark's always been my go-to place for music, and I loved it. Now that it's gone, I'm super sad and angry. I had all my music on there, and it's all gone :( all I have now is what I can remember. Imma miss you guys.

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Post by monique66 »

I can't believe that grooveshark's actually gone. there was a time when it didn't work on our computer, and it was awful. Grooveshark's always been my go-to place for music, and I loved it. Now that it's gone, I'm super sad and angry. I had all my music on there, and it's all gone :( all I have now is what I can remember. Imma miss you guys.

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Post by juliangregorian »

erglkjahlkh wrote: post #200
res0nat0r wrote: post #132

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Use a legit service like spotify and discover new music. I've started listening to dozens of new artists because of it.

Spotify is very bad for music discovery. It has no random feature, the channels they offer are either hand crafted or based on popularity. The music selection excludes many smaller, and indie, labels. The search functionalities are very limited (the metadata is too low quality). I wanted to love Spotify, and I really gave it a try. I just couldn't keep using it, all it did for me was to make me angry. In the end it's…

You used to be able to use apps like Last.fm which would add random functionality, but they discontinued apps, which made me ditch Spotify.

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Post by zzalpha »

zzalpha wrote: post #214
vidarh wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find that interesting because I mostly use streaming services to find music I buy. Largely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough (you'd think that my commute from a densely populated London suburb, along one of the highest density commuter routes in Europe, in to Central London would have decent mobile data coverage, wouldn't you... But you'd be sadly mistake…

Largely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough If you have an Android phone: Google Play All Access. You can offline content to your phone as if you own the music, but you get full access to their complete library. It's pretty brilliant, IMO. Edit: though that doesn't help you if you're looking for a radio-like service... I tend to listen to albums at a time, an…

Actually, I take it back, All Access lets you download radio stations, too! I'll have to try that some time...

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Post by BoppreH »

beagle3 wrote: post #149
BoppreH wrote: post #138

I discovered it a few minutes ago because I had just purchased a Premium Spotify license and opened Grooveshark to export my collections. All my favorite songs, albums and bands were listed there, and only there. I used Grooveshark for a few years, and enjoyed it. Thank you for that. But also fuck you. Throwing away data like that is unforgivable for a service. Imagine Facebook disappearing with your list of friends,…

> Imagine Facebook disappearing with your list of friends, or Google Docs with your documents. Yes, I imagine it on a daily basis. That's how the cloud works. It's happened before, and it will happen again. Any cloud based data is bound to disappear at any second because of a hack (ask Matt Hunan), because of a court order you are not aware of, because of an in-court-or-out-of-court settlement you are not part of and…

Do you keep a backup of your list of Facebook friends, your HN posts and "saved stories"?
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