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

lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I find music on YouTube and autoconvert it to MP3 with yt-dlp and ffmpeg. It embeds the metadata, cover art and tries to parse the artist and title as best as possible.

yt-dlp -x -f bestaudio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --metadata-from-title “%(artist)s - %(title)s” --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 999 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=123abc -o “./files/%(artist)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s” --cookies-from-browser

Needs minimal adjustment sometimes if the title format is weird, but works 95% automatic. What I like most about this is the fact that music vanishes all the time from YouTube. No one deletes the files from my harddrive but me.

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