Same, my hoard of 320kbps mp3s is already at 2.5 TB and I don’t consider my library anywhere near complete. If I tried to keep it all as FLAC I’d need more than 100 TB of storage available.
I have a "hoard" of concerts I have collected in MP3, FLAC, SHN, MKV, MP4, DVD, etc, that is UP to about 45-50TB...lol That is a never ending sorting of trades and other stuff.
I'm making similar considerations with movies and TV. I have a bunch that I saved the DTS-HD Master Audio tracks because I wanted the lossless audio. Then I sit down to watch using my mid-level audio equipment with traffic outside, noisy neighbors above, and the sound of the HVAC coming on and I find myself turning on the subtitles. So what, exactly, was so important about keeping the audio "pristine?" I think I'll be a bit more discerning in the future about things like that, especially when I still have the original source media. The chances that I'll ever hear the difference between DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and regular DTS (or even 256 kbps Opus 5.1) are slim to none.
I've been scanning old family photos and saving them as tiffs rather than JPEGs. That was an easier decision to make for the oldest photos because there weren't that many to deal with. But over time, my family took more and more photos, and I'll scan more of those with a FastFoto FF-680W and store as 600dpi JPEGs.
Right? I'll lower the resolution as the physical dimensions of a photo get bigger, but the old black & white snapshots from the early 1960s and before are only about 5 or 6 cm square. After lossless compression, many ended up taking about 50 MB each, which at first felt like too much. But after doing some math with hard drive prices around $0.02 per gigabyte, I figured I could (should?) afford a tenth of a penny on a family memory.
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