Reduce audio collection footprint
Hi everyone, my first post here.
I'm feeling a bit desperate. I have an extremely large lossless music collection I started almost 30 years ago. The footprint is enormous, and I'm questioning myself about the relevance of keeping everything as-is, especially since the accumulation still continues with new releases.
Twenty years ago, I kept maximum quality "just in case," "for later," so that I could enjoy in a distant future tiny detail that lossless encoding was supposed to preserve. But today, I'm over 50 years old, and I have to admit my body is slowly decaying. My hearing won’t become better in the next years and is probably worse than it was when I started my collection.
Up until now, accumulating didn't bother me too much, but the cost of storage is becoming worrying. I figure I'm probably not the only one facing this dilemma. What do you do if you're in a similar situation? Or what would you do in my position?
Any advice is welcome, thanks.