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

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• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually got rid of all my old MP3s years ago. Not because I regret acquiring them, but because the quality sucked. Even 320kbps. You can’t tell CD from MP3 through my stereo, or in the car. But it is really obvious through my headphones, and ruins my critical listening experience. Had to re-rip all of my CDs to lossless, and lost all the ones I didn’t have CDs for.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That reminds me that I should definitely plug my phone into my desktop and do a ton of music folder creation and reorganizing. I’ve got over 500 files and I really need to fully organize every single one and reorganize the ones that are organized already. Same with my much smaller set on my desktop. Luckily that one isn’t nearly as bad.

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  • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a few thousand mp3s and they are all neatly organised with tags and sorted in folders by artist and album. Whenever I add something i make sure it follows my naming scheme and has all the tags. Has been like that since I got my first few albums when I was like 10.

    Maybe I’m on the autism spectrum.

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have something similar on my laptop, but it’s only partially implemented on my desktop and phone. I only recently, within the last few years, really started to care. Some gear in my autistic brain started turning and now I need to have my music organized. I’ve just been held back on my phone and desktop because of how much work it would take, even though it would probably take less than an hour.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t really do the folder of MP3s thing any more.

  I am much more into the Jellyfin full of FLACs thing these days!

  I bet up in the attic next to one of my sweet old Abit motherboards I have a dusty old hard drive with a folder full of music from the 90s and early 2000s.

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• Surp@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  MusicBrainz Picard picard.musicbrainz.org

  I’ve used this to fix all my fucked up MP3 mess and it really helped a lot. Just make sure you change the input and output folders and let er rip!

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I may or may not know where there is a hard drive that has at least one mp3 that was acquired from Napster

  And no of course it isn’t named correctly, but thank you for asking.

  Also it’s not about princess Zelda or link

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• DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Use Deezer, ReFreezer and FolderSync to download my liked songs as mp3s and sync the files to my NAS.

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• pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plexamp is my favorite music player. I miss it when trying out services. It’s so buttery smooth and quick.

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• RacerX@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got a new pair and of waterproof headphones and consequently I have to load MP3s on them since Bluetooth doesn’t work underwater. Go to NG through my collection from the late 90’s was a wild trip.

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• ar99644@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been sorting my MP3 files since 2003. It’s a Sisyphian task. Every few years I’m like “ok, let’s sort those songs with the new, improved sorting method I just came up with” and after a few hours or days of intense sorting I just quit and let them be.

  Maybe this will be the year I finally sort them out! 🤣

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember you can always check out CDs from the library and rip them to your collection.

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  immaculately sorted. IMMACULATELY!

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  • atri@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mine is sorted as well but I named the folder “unsorted”

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just another person recommending Musicbrainz Picard.

  I had about 600 sketchy music files. I had started using Kodi and I wanted my music library to look nice. So I cleaned up all the art and metatags. It was a bit of an undertaking. I actually added a few of my albums to their database. I’m happy with the result. MBP is a really cool project.

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  no it won’t. the fog is coming.

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  • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you please elaborate?

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    • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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• Apocalypteroid@lemmy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m old enough to be one of Napster’s early adopters. Unfortunately most of my collection has been lost to either malfunction or negligence but due to most of the major streamers being fucking evil I’m back sailing the musical seven seas. And plus my internet is about 100x faster now so yohoho mehearties.

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  • cujo255@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was dipping my toes back in the seas earlier today, but did not find a good option, is there one you like for music other than rutracker which appears very sketch and needs an account?

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    • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aren’t private trackers the best method? But good luck getting an invite to them.

      Side note, if someone has connections, I’m interested.

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    • Apocalypteroid@lemmy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, the fish aren’t as plentyful as they were back in the good ol’ days but I’m still finding most of what I want on pirate bay or 1337X. It’s just a case of finding the option with the most reliable seeds.

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And no ads 😁

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• Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have 4630 MP3s on my phone. Most of it is organized well enough. An album per folder. Lots of them are even tagged correctly. The folder on my PC that is holding probably 3X that is a horrible mess.

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• ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You guys still use MP3? Come on, Vorbis and Opus exist.

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  • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please explain how changing formats would be in any way helpful for a poorly-named untagged MP3 from 1999

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m an audiophile, you wouldn’t get it.

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My man, I’ve been putting off sorting that shit for twenty years now. In the meantime I’ve circled back to CDs !

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I’ve been in that same boat. My music collection is made up of stuff I stole off Limewire, ripped compilation CDs, soundtracks, stuff I recorded off the radio…most are mp3, I’ve only started using FLAC last year, ID3 or other metadata stuff is completely inconsistent or missing.

  There are services that will identify the track based on examining the audio and provide data for it. I used a piece of Linux software called EasyTag for that purpose.

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  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was telling someone just yesterday about limewire when one of my playlists popped up the song I had downloaded 22 years ago.

    I may have to try easytag instead of manually searching, right clicking, adding the data to the properties tab.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well surely you can just use a program to rename the files based on their properly maintained ID3 info?

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My folder doesn’t even have a consistent file format, almost nothing has that kind of data included.

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    • belathus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used Musicbrainz Picard to sort out my old library. I was honestly impressed with how much I could find all the data for, but it did need help for a lot of things.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This looks very promising.

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• toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve got a directory like that on my computer, nested under a couple of /old_computer directories. At some point in the early 2000’s I switched to a system of (still not so well named) full albums as hard drive sizes increased and internet connections got faster, leaving the old original directory of one-offs from the dialup days to wither.

  My favorite part is the New Music directory where I’d stick new stuff I had obtained until I gave it a listen to it make sure that 1) it’s something I actually wanted to keep and 2) whether there was any quality issues with the encoding. There’s stuff in there with timestamps from like 2002. Yeah, I’m still planning to check that out…someday…

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  • wookiepedia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    /media/zfspool1/music/new/new/frommurray2008/

    It’s half a terabyte and I’ve found all sorts of shit in there, but I doubt I’ll ever get it organized. I mocks me in defiance.

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• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still use mp3s because:

  1. No financial cost
  2. Not tied to any one app or service
  3. More customization: Can be played back at any speed or modified in some other way

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no fucking commercials or streaming bullshit. ZERO FUCKING DOLLARS GOES TO JOE FUCKHEAD ROGAN.

    that’s enough justification for mp3 imho

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    • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah forgot to mention the lack of ads and the reliable access anywhere part

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I noticed the other day my car can play MP3 CDs and Ive been thinking about popping the one I usef to have in my first car in there.

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also consider backing up to the cloud when you can. Never know when a rainy day will come by, or ICE for that matter.

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  • PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “the cloud” is not a legitimate backup solution, and you’re doing people a disservice by advertising it as such. The majority of service providers are just as untrustworthy as spotify.

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    • thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re not entirely wrong. Look, if you want to run your own nextcloud with a VPS, then have at it. IDGAF. My point is, don’t just leave things locally. That’s all I’m saying. If y’all want to argue about which cloud is more ethical than the next, leave me out of it. Average Joe ain’t using something like IronMountain for offsite. Average Joe probably won’t also know how to encrypt their data but I would say doing that helps and I do that with my own keys before uploading it to something like mega.io

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    • tomcatt360@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its still a valuable part of a 3-2-1 rule based backup plan: 3 different copies, on 2 different media types, with 1 copy offsite. I don’t think they were recommending storing your only copy in the cloud afaik

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• spirinolas@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just use spotDL to download albums directly from spotify/YouTube. I set it to download directly into the jellyfin music folder in a folder with the album name. This way I just paste the album Spotify link on spotDL and it’s done. The album is available with the metadata as soon as jellyfin rescans the folder.

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• LifeOfChance@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just found all my old burned CDs including the folder of them I made for my spouse. I can’t believe those songs won her over lol, but 20 years later here we are.

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• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  mp3tag.de

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Picard can identify them by the acoustic ID similar to Shazam.
  Might be worth it to sort and categorize them with something like lidarr (once it works again)

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  • gesshoku@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This also works surprisingly well. Once it actually runs… It can be quite buggy.

    github.com/KieronQuinn/AmbientMusicMod (It’s for Android and requires Shizuku (shizuku.rikka.app)).

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Very cool.
      As I have a Pixel (and currently no interest in switching the ROM and too lazy to run ADB every reboot) I have no use for it.
      Starred it for later use.
      Thanks for sharing!

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  • darkreader2636@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Picard is great but i recommend tagging/fingerprinting songs in smaller chunks even if the collection is small because it freaks out whenever it tries to update tags from internet

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• lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • ar99644@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been doing something similar but but very basic. I didn’t know you could also add thumbnails and metadata! Mind = blown…

    I will change my old ways ASAP. A new era begins!

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  • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pro tip, make sure the browser you’re copying the cookies of isn’t logged in. Otherwise they may ban you sooner or later.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is there a good guide to passing cookies to yt-dlp? Its one of those things I’ve been meaning to learn but never quite got around to yet…

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doing God’s work

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TYVM

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have just been downloading as it is with yt-dlp -x (created an alias so I just type dl) and then rename and sort the files manually as I find stuff is so often in different naming formats

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want to marry you.

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