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- > The service would need to be free; and an easy uploading process. (similar to how the archive's works.)
Nothing is ever free forever.
by rvz - IA has been free for 30 years.
- Geeze, you've been using IA to host your own personal media projects? That's disappointing to hear. What's wrong with, like, SoundCloud, etc?
I rely on IA for literal public archival material like newspaper scans and broadcast recordings. Your usage of it seems a tad self-indulgent.
It seems like having a 1TB drive and p2p hosting would be the most pro-social move, here, if you're unwilling to pay for cloud hosting or otherwise participate in the market.
by rexpop - Yes. Soundcloud has a 3 hour limit; meaning with my 200 hours of music, i would require a lot of accounts, and i have a song that is 3 hours and 5 minutes long. And i have songs that are as short as 4 seconds long.
Bandcamp has a limit on the size of files you upload; which make it even more difficult as a lot of my songs are longer than 25 minutes. (which is precisely the amount their limit is.) Then if you sell something you can get up to a larger file size; unfortunately that is only about double the amount; and the said 3 hour song is 2.1GB on it's own.
Music distributors are unlikely to upload a couple dozen albums because i use excerpts in a creative manner of cartoons and anime or television shows. Which are not allowed on most of them. Plus i have no control over the release day.
All of the ones we both know about are individual song uploads, meaning the album that has 67 songs (released in 2019) with a bunch of five second to half a minute songs, it becomes mildly tedious.
I agree with the P2P idea as well, it is my last resort though. (as i still need to obtain the drive.)
Internet Archive; has the easy drag and drop of a folder and then type in some metadata for the entire release and wait about 20 or so minutes and it is released, no wait time, no individual song uploads, and practically unlimited. (with in reason.)
by earworms - > Anyways; what i am seeking as an alternative would also include sharing my books
If it is your books, literally, then Zenodo is among the best for long-term preservation.
by jruohonen - My books; wouldn't really fit in there. It would be akin to mad scientist musings from over a decade ago; that have been happening near exactly as what is happening through out the world today.
(the books i could host on neocities though.) as i would use that site to impliment the sharing.
by earworms - CasaOS on a Raspberry Pi works pretty well for this. Simple web interface, handles big libraries fine, and you don’t have to mess around with complicated server setup.
- I like how Bill Wurtz does it at `https://billwurtz.com`. Dump everything on a server and list things manually in html.
Or you could let your webserver deal with the directory listing. Caddy's looks nice, is customisable too. Can't get simpler than that!
- i will look at Caddy after a good night's sleep.by earworms
- Bonus if also add a .torrent with the same as webseeds: Can make easier for visitor to grab in bulk and makes a way to keep sharing in further future. No strict need to run torrent client to act as webseed - just point at http url.by pamcake