Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

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• P00Pchute@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I really want to go this route. Had Spotify, tempted to get Tidal but I don’t want to deal with content coming and going anymore. I have about 300 gigs of random MP3s, and Flac files. I want to obtain more and move over fully to flac. Any recommendations on making the transition back to locally stored music.

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m currently making the move myself and I’ve had a really easy time with soundiiz.com and YouTube-dl with a Linux GUI. Basically soundiiz takes your playlist from one service and makes an identical one on another service. You move all your jams to YouTube and rip the audio out of them with youtube-dl. Here’s a wikihow with the deets

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I gave up on trying to sort my initial batch and just started replacing.

    First I try to find a full discography of an artist by a solid release group (for example "PEMEDIA or “88”). With those you can just copy the entire folder into the artist directory and plex/jellyfin etc will perfectly detect it. Then just add new albums as they are released.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can probably find a converter that will rip those files from Youtube for you. I did mine a year and a half ago. If I open Spotify it’s just to see the playlists they made for me, because those are actually pretty good, but I rip those files and store them too.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  File format has nothing to do with proper sorting. I’ve got 350k songs properly organized by artist, album, etc, but mp3. I’ve no need for flac.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    File format has nothing to do with proper sorting.

    Correct, it doesn’t.

    Main difference to mp3 is that flac is “lossless” so the audio quality is a bit better, but it requires considerably more space (though still a pretty insignificant compared to video).

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know the difference, but it’s irrelevant to organization.

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right, I never said that it was?

        I just found it much easier to just download and replace my library with files that are already sorted instead of sorting it myself. And when you’re already replacing them might as well upgrade the quality.

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      • prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There is a connection between flac and organization since flacs are a thing for audio nerds and they tend to be tidy :)

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