Re:I got my music back. At least most of it
by thirstywhimbrel on Saturday July 25, 2015 @06:25PM
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Music lockers sort of terrify me.
I know there've been lots of complaints about them before,[0] and I think most of the early complaints are actually resolved now. But I still have a lingering bad feeling...
After playing a series of MMOs that subsequently died, or online games that then lost all their servers, I'm just really wary of putting all my trust in a central server somewhere.
Companies can die, or sell off parts of their business, make strange decisions about UI or storage without noticing how it destroys someone's music in edge cases.
I guess you're covered as long as you backup your music on a NAS too... but it's not crazy to assume you shouldn't have to do that, so I don't blame the author.
I know there've been lots of complaints about them before,[0] and I think most of the early complaints are actually resolved now. But I still have a lingering bad feeling...
After playing a series of MMOs that subsequently died, or online games that then lost all their servers, I'm just really wary of putting all my trust in a central server somewhere.
Companies can die, or sell off parts of their business, make strange decisions about UI or storage without noticing how it destroys someone's music in edge cases.
I guess you're covered as long as you backup your music on a NAS too... but it's not crazy to assume you shouldn't have to do that, so I don't blame the author.
[0] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/29/music-lockers...