Storing movies, music, etc for long term.
Posted by MountainDonkey-40@reddit | preppers | View on Reddit | 28 comments
I unfortunately got rid of all my CD’s and DVD’s a couple years ago and I’ve been wondering about good alternatives to buying them all back. Have any of you been putting together a library of movies and or music on hard drives or anywhere else? Wondering what the best options for storage is and the best way to get 100s or 1000s of music and movie files downloaded.
funnysasquatch@reddit
Your phone with offline service will be sufficient. If the world ended and you still had time for music I would say old school vinyl because it’s 100% mechanical.
binary-survivalist@reddit
offline service may still not work. most of these services technically don't re-download them, but they do DRM "checkups" silently in the background every so often, maybe once a week, maybe once a month. some of them may eventually expire and refuse to play, if the license server is permanently offline
DEADFLY6@reddit
Hey, what's offline service?
funnysasquatch@reddit
It means the ability to play music or videos when you don't have Internet. Some of the services may require you to pay a fee for this functionality.
This is where I would say -this is another reason to pay for YouTube premium. In your day to day - no more ads on YouTube. You can download videos and music.
Which in a prepper context - means you could download instructional videos you want on hand.
DEADFLY6@reddit
Wait. I do pay for premium. So, I always thought downloading videos uses more data than just watching. I'm internet savvy impaired. Eli5. How do I download? Gimme the whole shebang. I'm constantly watching 3-4 hour long podcasts. I use up most if not all my data every month. I did the reduce video quality thing. I don't want to pirate nothing. BTW I'm on a s23u.
funnysasquatch@reddit
In mobile app should be a button that says “Download” :). Then in history you will see a downloads section
Velock0009@reddit
There are other ways to download YouTube vids for offline use…. Y2mate does the trick for me
Shayhickman@reddit
SSD, either internal or external
greenarrow118@reddit
how do you watch them afterwards?
Shayhickman@reddit
Laptop, Desktop, another computer device. But if we’re talking about an off grid situation you now need a generator to charge the laptop or to run the computer
zaraguato@reddit
A lot of 128gb USB drives full of movies, music, audiobooks and books, why not hard drives? Cause hard drives fail all the time and if they fail you lose terabytes, when USB drives fail you only lose 128gb, they're also cheap and very portable.
SetantaIronspine@reddit
External hddrives. Keep several redundant ones in separate faraday cages and separate buildings.
Future-Direction2676@reddit
There is a local weekly flea market in town that sells DVD's for $2 a pop....has literally 10s of 1000s of them.
I'm slowly buying physical DVDs again because fuck streaming....also, I worry less about DVD's going bad than disks drives of any sort.
Das-Tronz@reddit
DVD's will go bad. You have to store them in optimal conditions, otherwise they will eventually rot along the edges and internal data will become un-readable.
Future-Direction2676@reddit
technically everything goes bad eventually. I'm old...they only need to last about 20 years.
DaleFairdale@reddit
Probably going to have to pirate stuff like that (which im all for) but some aren't into that. As for storage. Some kind of flashdrive or SSD would be a good safe bet as you can plug them straight into phones or a tv and just watch whatever you want.
If you want to go down a rabithole, google PLEX media server and watch some videos on that. Its a local storage solution for movies you can use at home just like netflix.
Genesis2001@reddit
While plex has a better clientside user experience, also check out others like jellyfin or emby, etc.
Future-Direction2676@reddit
Plex has a weird need to log into the cloud which bothers me so ive switched to jellyfin with no issues.
Genesis2001@reddit
Yeah, that's why I use Jellyfin myself. It doesn't have a clean mobile app like Plex, but at least you don't have to buy a premium sub to watch things on mobile.
b18bturbo@reddit
NAS setup and usb thumb drives. Can use on tv or laptop and transfer to tablet from laptop.
Hefty-Squirrel-6800@reddit
Physical books are also a must.
Ok_Cartographer516@reddit
Iv heard this and a few flash drives works but it's beyond my internet capabilities
BaldyCarrotTop@reddit
I recently started working on this area of prep. So far I have put together a NAS using a raspberry Pi and a 3TB USB hard drive I had laying around. All my devices (desktops, tablets, laptops, phones, and the TV) can access the content on the NAS.
All my music is on the NAS. More stuff will be added later.
CCWaterBug@reddit
I have 4 ssd, approx 10tb total.
Portable, easy to use, works on laptop or media player ($50) to TV with minimal issues.
Works well for me, simple and sweet.
Genesis2001@reddit
No alternative besides sailing the seven seas. However, check out local thrift stores for donated DVD's and BD's. The only thing you have to do is make sure the disk is actually in the case (and sometimes make sure the right disk is in the case). My local thrift store sells them for $2/ea. I've found a few amount of NEW (still shrink-wrapped) discs there.
I've been doing this because I've wanted to display the original cover art and didn't want to fuss with printing out my own covers. I got rid of all the jewel cases years ago and put them in softside disc binders to save space originally.
Deckrat_@reddit
Rent CDs from the library and download them to your devices in whatever format you wish. If you can invest some money into it, check out music sales with your local music shops for bulk purchases you can sell after you're through with it if you like.
Personally, I buy boxes of DVDs off of FB Marketplace and/or Craigslist for $5 to $10/box and I cycle through the ones I only need to watch once. But often, in the process, I'll get a sweet deal on DVDs I actually want, like all of BBC's Planet Earth and comedies from the 2000s. I have a simple non-smart TV, simple DVD player, and it's low enough power, it'll be supported by my future solar system
AlphaDisconnect@reddit
I wonder how much you can rent from the library? Or get off their computers?
I wonder if redbone is still a thing in your area.
They make cd slash dvd copier machines.
PaulBunyanisfromMI@reddit
Solid state drives, in RAID 1 format.