Submitted 2 days 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.
True. Mine’s already over 25 years old. Just keeps hopping from hard drive to hard drive.
Not unless you keep up with migrating your files. Drives fail over time.
Gotta have a good backup strategy for sure. I would’ve lost my collection a few times if I didn’t have one.
no it won’t. the fog is coming.
Can you please elaborate?
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.
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
So will all my records. And probably tapes. And probably my stack of hdds that I have 3 backups of.
Bite me, corpo streaming leeches
How to protect against bitrot?
RAID1 combined with a separate backup drive, and ZFS with EEC RAM helps a lot, too (as another poster mentioned).
No, it’s not a full 3-2-1 backup solution, but you have to spend quite a bit as a data hoarder to actually get that. As far as I can tell, few data hoarders actually have a 3-2-1 backup without squinting about the details.
In like 5 years we’ll all have self-hostd LLM agents and you just send the lil’ bastard on YT to scrape the audio in higher bitrates all over again. It’ll be FINE.
I also have MP3s that are 20+years old at this point, and they were bad rips in the first place. Some of them from CDs that skipped during the rip. bitrot on this low quality MP3 I’m too lazy to re-get is on me.
Honestly, the community should make such a tool.
Since the argument is that LLMs scraping content isn’t piracy, if we just “scrape” the songs with a LLM it’s protected use.
heh I’d like to trust that plan for sure
yt-dlp already tougher to use today than in years past—and assuming everything will survive new content deals, uploader purges, etc. is optimistic
ZFS NAS and ECC ram. Or backup to back blaze and let them worry about it
ZFS is your friend.
superuser.com/…/how-exactly-do-btrfs-zfs-and-rela…
But nothing replaces a good backup strategy! Borg backup can help you there.
M-disc
This, except the same also applies to those with OCD tendencies who spent like 2,000 hours meticulously renaming and organizing file and folders. At times the archive has felt pointless but you’re correct – I should never get rid of it. Even besides the sunk cost fallacy aspect, it might actually turn out to be very valuable in the future. I don’t listen to a ton of music anymore but I recently axed Spotify and started using Plexamp for when I do listen. I like Plexamp – just needs a bit more polish to feel like a AAA app.
mp3tag.de
I just wish people would name their shit well enough that I don’t accidentally download live albums anymore.
I’ll sort it next year. Or next computer. Or…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I find it funny how we’ve resorted to streaming services in an age where you can put 256 gigabytes ono a pinky nail sized storage solution. Ereaders are even better, an old kindle with 4gb of storage can hold an entire library.