SAY IT ISN'T SO... the HDD in the Chinese Frankenstein recycled-parts machine I got a year back has chirped out! the vast majority of additions to my library during that year were not backed up and therefore are lost and will have to be reacquired
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list to document the loss
fortunately the operating system and other systems WERE on a separate SSD along with a few other essentials so access to the computer was maintained and also fortunately, the majority of my library is backed up on an external and also still available on my old laptop which I migrated over from about a year back, so now that I got myself a fresh HDD and it's all set up, just gotta link the two puppers up via the network and wait for them gigabytes to transfer
after that just gonna be the painstaking chore of reacquiring everything from that past year... think I managed to get most of it on here (shame I don't know the trick to get your list to accept over 100 entries)... need to check out Last.fm and see if there's a way to sort/view library by date of new additions/first scrobble
been a time consuming bitch maybe driven by uh OCD or something but making nice progress just added back the five Rolling Stones albums I lost... guess I'll take a break... probs hit At the Drive-In next
once it's all said and done, gonna be interesting to see what puppers got overlooked and that I forget to re-add... there's really no comprehensive record to reference... best thing I've got is last.fm but I don't think I'm gonna sit there and click and scroll through hundreds of pages of scrobbles to see if I missed anything (plus there'll probably be some stuff that I added and never actually got around to listening to, meaning there won't be a record of it on last.fm anyways)
well, while last.fm has proven to be surprisingly useless since it doesn't appear to have the functionality that I required, Soulseek and Microsoft Edge are turning out to be the lifesavers here since their records are on the little SSD where my OS is and remained intact (fortunately hadn't bothered to clear them)
might have to check out this ibroadcast.com that was rec'd, but I'm assuming it's some sort of cloud storage service that requires a monthly subscription
almost done... just got a couple Atrium Carceri albums, 777 Vol. II, that recent album by The Chisel... and uhhh that early Destroyer album and I'll have wrapped up reacquiring everything that I was able to squeeze on here
