Thanks for the KDE application recommendations!
Comment on How do you sort your music?
exu@feditown.com 17 hours ago
I just started properly tagging new music at some point and now my library is largely tagged correctly.
For tagging I use kid3, great KDE application for that.
I also sort my music into a folder layout like this to know where I got it from and potentially upgrade the quality.
MusicRaw - Artist1 - Bandcamp - Album1 - Tidal - Album2 - Album3 - Youtube - ytrip album - Artist2 - Album1 (not moved to a separate source) - Tidal - Album2 - Album3 - ytrip album
I then have a script to loudness-normalize (come fight me) all music and write it to another subfolder.
A second script takes those normalized files and symlinks them into a structure like this:
Music - Artist1 - Album1 - Album2 - Album3 - ytrip album - Artist2 - Album1 - Album2 - ytrip album
I tried switching to Picard, but for somewhat obvious reasons it doesn’t support my insane structure.
SpacePirate@feddit.nu 17 hours ago
jake@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Why not use ReplayGain tags to capture the normalisation information and let your player adjust non-destructively? Of course I don’t care if you do it by actually re-normalising – they’re your files. Just curious!
Localhorst86@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Depending on what device/software/etc. you use, your player might not be able to read that normalization info. For that reason alone, I still use mp3gain to actually modify my files, I don’t have to worry about whether or not the player will use the replaygain info, or not.
That feature didn’t exist when I started and I haven’t bothered to change it yet. Since this also needs support on all clients, it’s somewhat less portable than my solution.