I finally got the streaming media server I’ve been talking about building for at least 7 or 8 years set up in my house. It’s glorious! I can at last stream all the media I’ve accumulated over the years and not be reliant on whatever service I’m renting bits from that month.
Now I have a new (and EXTREMELY first-world) problem:
See, I started backing up, acquiring and storing all these files years ago. Now, I’m going through all these old drives where the files have been housed in my basement, waiting for a server to be added to and they’re mostly 480p.
Now I find myself having to go one by one through these files and decide which movies and TV series to even bother putting onto the server and which ones I know there’s no way I am ever going to watch in that low resolution.
In some cases it’s an easy decision; I have archives of shows that probably never made it to digital media in the first place and the 360p YouTube VHS-rips I have are as good as I’m ever likely to get, so I’m happy I can watch them at all. In other instances it’s a real case of: “do I want to go out of my way to find a new, higher-res version of this? Have I possibly already bought this on blu ray and it’s somewhere in my collection? Do I want to spend the time and processing power ripping that disc so I can have it on this server?”
Again, this is a very first-world problem, but just because I need better problems doesn’t mean I shouldn’t write about these stupid ones I’ve already got.
Currently Playing: XLR8R Podcast – Episode 631: Ondness
Currently Reading: THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH, Philip K. Dick
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