ever since the cloud drive crack of 2021, i have been slowly rebuilding my music collection, half of which was unique tracks and albums that i had downloaded many years ago, as bittorrents, or through using IRC, back when music piracy was more a way of life than it is (or even can be) these days, and, for the most part, that has not been even close to replaced. i have been buying physical media (mostly audio CDs, but a fair quantity of DVDs and vinyl albums, as well) WHENEVER POSSIBLE, to avoid another similar incident in the future.

along those lines, i am 100% CERTAIN i bought a CD by The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra (Das Erste Wiener Gemüseorchester) called The Green Album within the past few years, but i cannot currently locate it, which is somewhat alarming… as i KNOW FOR CERTAIN that i bought it.

at this point, i have gone through all 4 CD books (probably 200 – 300 approximately 7 800 CDs) TWICE without finding it. at this point, the only other possibility is the box of “CDs and covers” which is on the top shelf of the closet/desk, and requires “special handling” to get it down from the top shelf without breaking something or someone, so i’ve sort of been putting it off. 😒

ETA 260111: yep, that’s where it was. 😕

i’m pretty close to having approximately half of what i had prior to the crack, i.e. just under 1TB of digital information. prior to the crack, my collection was around 2.5TB of digital information. what i recovered is about 500GB of information, and, of that, around 100 to 250GB is corrupt. i’m still going through recovered data, searching for the increasingly rare document that i can definitively place somewhere. 😩