Posted on 08/09/2023 9:51:17 PM PDT by PROCON
*SIGH*, I had my desktop computer crash, renewed 10 year old Dell (Win10) last week, just went blank, screen eventually came up asking if I wanted to do a diagnostic test, I hit yes and after the diagnosis it said it didn't recognize my hard drive.
Where TF did my hard drive go?
Anyway, not being a computer nerd I ordered a different (HP) renewed computer from Amazon, it arrived Sunday, set it up and through my Microsoft account was able to recover all my files, documents, pictures, etc but not my MP3 music. 😥.
What happened to my music files?
I'm not a computer nerd so please be gentle and use terms I might understand 'cuz I really miss that music!
You're right. Rebuilding from scratch is a serious pain. Several years ago I decided to re-rip my entire catalog of tunes at a much higher bitrate than I had originally. Took quite a while. Fortunately, the new collection is now much more consistent in it's tagging and filename conventions. It was worth the effort. I also have several albums that I went ahead and ripped as single tracks, as I occasionally like to listen to the entire thing as it was recorded.
I believe Mercedes had a commercial years ago with someone playing vinyl in the car.
Some of us prefer to have hardcopy backups of our data. If you don't own it, you can be denied access to it at any time for any reason.
I hardly ever use a thumb drive but I checked the only one I have and I had saved all my music on it, from 3 years ago when I upgraded to a faster 'puter!
Now I downloaded it to my hard drive and all 1200+ tunes are there, listening to ZZ Top right now.
Thanks for all your advice, but as Emily Litella would say:
Yes; very different today from yesterday’s ‘floppy’ disks.
Hillary? Is that you?
As long as the hard drive is physically OK your files are on there. Get yourself a USB external hard drive reader and you should be able to copy all your files to the new computer. It is super simple.
Excellent! Glad you saved your MP3’s!
The way things are going, someday long from now when humans no longer exist on Earth, our entire recorded history, just about every book ever written, etc., will be left somewhere to testify.
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I have albums....I know nothing about MP3 files....
Although when in serious listening mode in the Cave with serious audio/video, I prefer CD's with their .wav files over MP3. Being a drummer, I can hear the difference in the high hat sssssizzle between the two. Maybe MP3's have improved their top frequency range - don't know.
Good deal , glad it worked out. I would to have hated to lose that much music I had collected.
At one point we would have backed it all up on a CD-Rom or DVD drive and now a small thumb drive will work even better.
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