The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Redefinedpotato on 2025-02-15 01:46:42.
Hey all I'm a newbie to this and am looking for some advice on my next steps. I have enough computer knowledge to hurt myself and others so apologies in advance if I am mistaken with things
Back in the olden times I had a iPod classic 256 gig that I thought was Bee's knees. I would plug it into every iTunes I could get my hands on and take a whole copy of their music library to add to my collection (most people only had 16 or 32 g iPods back then so I could hold quite a few) and use my iPod as the communal device. I always thought that was really cool and it worked great for years until it finally broke; So I want to recreate it in some way.
I simply listen to a fuckton of audiobooks and wanted to keep them all after I read them. I have around 500gb~ of audiobooks in mostly .m4b that I have been storing on a Samsung Evo 1TB using my phone. I use my phone to torrent things because I can't be bothered to pay for a VPN or to get a passive aggressive letter from Comcast in my mailbox And I'll be damned if I don't use every gigabyte of my unlimited 5g plan
Unfortunately microSD are going going gone and I needed a better solution anyways. A few years ago my area was hit by a flash flood and I lost quite a bit of my old data , which sucks dick, so the redundancy of cloud storage is really appealing to me since RAID is unnecessary for something so small scale imo.
What I have been doing now is just uploading my library to Google Drive since I have the 2tb plan for free because of some promotion or other and it's been working perfectly so far. I use an app called DriveSync for Android (great app btw is simply works 100% of the time) to cycle in books to a temporary folder before I can organize them accordingly. I have another folder set up to download to my phone for the books that I want to currently read and that way I can save up space without compromising accessibility. I have my Google drive set up so this folder is separate from the rest of my stuff, only editable in every folder except the temp folder I have at the bottom for uploads and organization.
I've shared this link with a few of my coworkers who I know I can trust not do something stupid like upload a virus or something but obviously that is a concern if I ever want to make something like this more public. I also don't know exactly if this is scalable going forward without setting up some sort of server, But I'm afraid doing that will put off the not technically minded people from participating because it's scary for them to have to access something like that.
My additional thought is hoping to automate the process of adding books in some way. One of my co-workers is a fully certified coder and said it is possible to set up some sort of website scraper using an RSS feed and a healthy dose of Python or Java but that is beyond my capacity at this time (and his time to create) and probably also out of current project scope.
Anyways, I'm sorry for rambling and if this sounds stupid and unubtainable but it's been on my mind. Any tips tricks or help is greatly appreciated!