Through the years, I’ve meticulously ripped, downloaded, and tagged these records, before backing them up to multiple hard drives and migrating them from computer to computer. My digital music collection is more than just a cache of songs, it’s a record of my life: mixes made for and by lovers, early demos from defunct bands first seen in local VFW halls, original versions of classic records that are long out of print. As someone who’s accumulated nearly 50,000 digital tracks over the past three decades, each time I heard one of these traumatic tales, I felt the person’s pain. A fried old Windows desktop computer, a melted laptop hard drive, a stolen iPod. Almost everyone I know who has ever kept a collection of digital music-that is, a folder full of music files on a hard drive-can point to a specific extinction-level event in their life that decimated their carefully curated library to the point of no return.
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