Whats The Point In Usb C For Storage?

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Will someone please explain to me, what is the point of USB C for music, when you can't yet buy USB C drives? 

 

Someone I know has just bought a brand new car, and it has a USB C port built into the car. 

It says in the manual that its suitable for playing music through or charging your phone etc. 

 

But and this is the question, how can USB C be used for music if you can't yet buy a USB C drive for storing music on?

 

My car uses the more traditional USB A for music and works just fine, so can't understand why new cars only have the USB C ports. 

 

It actually says in the manual that a convertor can be purchased so that you can insert a USB A drive into the converter which has a USB C connector at the other end, and insert that into the car. But isn't that just going to be more cumbersome?

 

Will there be USB C drives in the future? I certainly haven't seen any yet. 

[barry1010]

I like cloud and NAS storage and I have several USBs in my car packed with music. 

No such thing as too many back ups

[THECORBYLOON]

"But today we are over run with pics."

That is through your personal choice. If you're taking so many, might it not be an idea to weed them on a regular basis and keep only the better ones?

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THECORBYLOON, 

I find myself taking pics nearly everyday over the last 10 years with a smartphone, especially as my family are always with me. I think in the old days we had a camera and chose more carefully those moments, but with a phone I just find myself snapping away quite regularly to make memories. 

 

 

[barry1010]

Download them to your PC, delete them from your phone. No need to use Google at all if you don't want to.  

[barry1010]

How do you 'make memories'?  I have more memories than I can shake a stick at but I don't recall purposefully 'making memories'.  We just lived our lives as best as we could without looking at life through a lens.  

Do you wake up in the morning and decide to 'make a memory'? I don't get it.

[bhg481]

We use photos to aid memory. The likes of holidays help us remember the dates we visited ans what we saw/did there. We also record such trivia as when we painted the house etc.

[barry1010]

We take photos too, not to 'make memories' but to record them.  Like buying a souvenir with 'Torquay' written on it.    I also take photos/scans of invoices, receipts, work in the process and completed.

I wouldn't dream of going to a concert and recording the whole thing on my phone, or even take a photo.

Apologies, I have an aversion to 'making memories'. When my neighbour asked where I was going a few weeks ago, she replied, 'ah, making memories'. I said no, just living for today

[bhg481]

I suppose you could say that taking/having portraits done is a means of making memories for both current and future generations. I have portraits of some of my great great grandparents through every generation to my great grand sons.

[barry1010]

That's nice. 

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barry1010, 

I think I worded it in the wrong way. 

 

What I meant was with every photo I take, its a snap shot in time, and takes you straight back to that moment which in essence is a memory. 

 

Every so often Google photos alerts me via a notification of a photo I took 8 years ago to the day, and the photo projects me straight back to that moment, or it might be a pic of me and daughter that someone took using my phone a certain amount of years ago, and it zooms me back to that day and jogs your memory to that moment. 

 

So personally I dont think you can ever have enough photos. And I think when I was growing up, I wished there was more photos to look back on of me and my family. 

 

But I think people 40, 50 years ago didn't take photos to the extent we do today. I think the normal thing to do was gradually fill up a film on the camera, which could be done over a year or so or even longer.

 

I was looking at a pack of photos my parents took in the 70's early 80's, and you can see there was evident long gaps between each photo that was taken. 

 

Whereas today I am more aware that taking a photo is quite important in terms of recording a memory in the form of a photo, because thats what photos do. I do hope I've explained it a bit better this time 😉

 

To put it another way it is impossible to remember every single thing we do during a day of leasure while spending family time, but with every photo it contains those memories, which would otherwise be lost forever.

 

Sometimes we just need our memory to have a wake up moment to take us back to a particular day, and photos do this perfectly. 

[bhg481]

I think a major difference is the cost of the photos taken on film and the modern convenience of having unlimited "free" photos available on digital material. Film cost a few pounds, processing the same again and then there was the albums to file them in.

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bhg481, 

I think cost was a factor why people didn't take photos as often as we do today. But I think perhaps photos were mainly only taken during a special event like a birthday, or Christmas. Looking back at my childhood photos they highlight to me that most of the photos were taken during a special event. 

 

Hardy any random ones, so although cost was a factor, I really do think the past generation didn't just snap away mindlessly or see the importance of photos as we do now, or I do anyway, I can't speak for everyone obviously. 

 

It just seems like people or certainly my parents anyway had to have a particular reason to take a photo. Seems a shame to me really because photos are priceless, you can't get certain moments back again ever. 

[bhg481]

//It just seems like people or certainly my parents anyway had to have a particular reason to take a photo//

Thats because you had to take your camera with you, which was bulky, so you only did that if you expected to take photos. Nowadays very few people don't have a phone with a camera (even non-smart phones) so are able to take good quality photos. Again, going back to the 1950s when I was a boy, cheap cameras would only take decent (not good) pictures on nice sunny days; nowadays smart phone cameras will take good, sharp, well exposed photos in almost any light.

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bhg481, 

When you put it like that I suppose its why there was a whole different attitude or approach towards taking photos, plus add into the mix the cost is why people didn't take so many photos. 

 

Seems a shame but we can't exactly go back and take the photos we could have then. 

[Canary42]

We've wandered off topic a bit, but in the 'old days' taking a photo was a much more cautious experience as films were expensive.  Usually by the time a film was finished, the processing/printing could reveal pics from months ago IME. 

As for "making memories", I recently went through some pictures taken over 50 years ago and I had trouble identifying some of them, so more like "making forgetfulness"😁

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Canary42, 

You mean you forgot the family members in some of the photos?

 

That must be awful, but also embarrassing 😳