Submitted 1 month ago by Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I have a folder of MP3s, some of which date back to 1999, just a few years after the format was popularised. Most of them have utterly terrible names (think RIDEONAM.MP3). I think at this point they might even survive the heat death of the universe.
Also consider backing up to the cloud when you can. Never know when a rainy day will come by, or ICE for that matter.
“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.
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
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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What? you have your own music that you can listen to any time, even offline without some annoying app?
And you can get niche and non-corporate music that’s not on that app?
That’s not progress, get with the times!
I have two hard drives from decades ago full of entire albums that are meticulously sorted and tagged. It was.my magnum opus of OCD.
And it won’t have modern ai rubbish in it, just old gold.
I wish. I lost my 1TB drive of somewhat sorted MP3s and it took all the energy of collecting music with it. I’ve been using Spotify since then. But I still miss that drive.
only if you keep backups
I’m always disappointed to remembt that the average computer user doesn’t keep any backups whatsoever :/
Back in the day I used iTunes to manage my mp3s, used it to properly fill out their metadata, and then used it to rename all the files appropriately, but there’s tons of other software to do that.
I also lost the last 1/3 of my music library when my roommate spilled beer on my laptop (frying it), and then midway through transferring the files off I tripped on the usb cable and shattered the hard drive.
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! 🤣
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.
Yeah, that’s what I thought too, until that drive failed during a system upgrade. I’m not ripping 300+ CD’s AGAIN. Youtube it is.
Soulseek is your friend, use nicotine+
That’s why I have at least 3 copies of my library at any time.
Oh, just edit the tags, you lazy fuck 😂
I… Still use the same tools I’ve used about two decades ago…
Jamp! Organizer, and/or MP3 Tagger. MP3 Tagger for fixing the id3 tags, and Jamp! for renaming the files in bulk how I want (artist - song, usually).
I have an external hard-drive with some 300-500h of music on it.
Problem is i don’t want to clog up my SSD and i often am too lazy to plug it in. But i have been listening to a lot of songs i haven’t archived yet and risk losing with the digital platforms failing me sooner or later.
NAS devices can hold several hard drives, and most of them have wi-fi and other networking capabilities
No, that hard drive is long gone
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.
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.
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.
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.
No need to change the names, they are too legendary.
Plexamp is my favorite music player. I miss it when trying out services. It’s so buttery smooth and quick.
no it won’t. the fog is coming.
Can you please elaborate?
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.
You guys still use MP3? Come on, Vorbis and Opus exist.
Please explain how changing formats would be in any way helpful for a poorly-named untagged MP3 from 1999
I’m an audiophile, you wouldn’t get it.
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.
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)
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)).
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!
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
Imma go against the grain on this one and say, thank fuck for Spotify, I don’t want to waste my time sorting and downloading music that i can have on demand anywhere anytime and I can discover cool new music every week.
Ofc, you know, everyone should do what they like, personally I like the spotify model, the same way Steam stopped my gaming piracy, it stopped my need to pirate music.
i still go to the high sees for Movies and TV shows because personally I am passionate about that and I don’t want to deal with shit like music being switched in Scrubs because licenses expired, the music in that show is a huge part for a lot of episodes you can’t just switch it out.
Have you heard of MetaBrainz? I reckon they have tools to help with music stuff, including tagging and organising music, and keeping track of listens and getting recommendations. Take a look into the MetaBrainz Projects
I think you vastly overestimate my care for how much time I want to invest into setting up music playing, that time is 0.
I want to open an app and have music available for listening, and I want to be able to play it on my alexas so I can listen to music in the bathroom and on my toilet.
That’s it.
everyone has cool recommendations, but so many people disregard UX.
To this day nearly a third of my Jellyfin library is stuff I downloaded through ourTunes over the dorm LAN in 2004/2005.
Does anyone know why Jellyfin cant auto scan for mp3 signatures of random directories i have it targeting and auto-populate song/album/artist metadata into the existing library? Do I need a specific addon?
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.
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
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month 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.