Using AIMP to actually play mp3s on my computer but hate it, looking for an alternative
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 October 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
none of which goes any direction towards answering the question of "how", mind you. i just wanted to save myself a google - if i wanted an argument i'd be on stevehoffman.tv!
what's your problem, i gave you a suggestion, did you even read my post
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 October 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
sigh. i don't have a problem, brimstead, thank you for your suggestion.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
1TB hard drive is around $50; no-brainer. By the time you fill that up, it's pretty easy too imagine affordable SD cards of the same capacity.
I recommend against low bit-rates or shifting to mono unless you have very specific needs, even if you still have higher res. backups -- i have 3 HDs of my stax (original, and 2 back-ups) and have enough trouble just keeping those updated -- even without worrying which copy has my best MP3s/flacs, etc.
My problem will be when my stax grow beyond 1TB (over 800GB now) -- as i would want 1 HD for each copy -- i've been using older 3.5" HDs that connect thru docking stations of either eSATA or USB 3.0, but my oldest computer is still on Win XP and have trouble with HDs larger than 1TB.
Bulk file conversion very easy in Mediamonkey.
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 2 November 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
itunes
is probably the problem.
― campreverb, Thursday, 2 November 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
What a fucking ballache is my irritable response to all that.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
what's all this about mono? Don't most encoders actually use "Joint Stereo" by default? That is, where left + right are the same, use the allowed bitrate to enhance overall fidelity.
― maffew12, Thursday, 2 November 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
That's not joint stereo.
Joint stereo is where they encode the one channel as an absolute and encode the other channel as a delta. It's more efficient than encoding both channels absolutely but it is capable of exactly reproducing the input, nothing is lost.
― koogs, Thursday, 2 November 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Joint_stereo
― chihuahuau, Friday, 3 November 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
Actually, I think that is what maffew is describing. And there are more things called 'joint stereo' than just the one I mentioned. (But all rely on the fact that the two channels will be nearly the same a lot of the time)
The bloke had already said he doesn't want an external drive, or an internal one. And that these aren't the masters. It's safe to transcode then down. But I'd wait until my disc was 90% full at least.
― koogs, Friday, 3 November 2017 04:55 (six years ago) link
I'd definitely prefer using a cloud service for backup rather than buying more external hdds
Currently I'm on the 100gb google drive plan, I downloaded the desktop client and am placing all my non-system files in the drive folder
This works flawlessly and saved all my files when my SSD crashed for no reason 6 months ago
The 1tb plan is 8£/month, if I was maintaining a digital music collection I'd use that for backup
― niels, Friday, 3 November 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link
But I'd wait until my disc was 90% full at least.― koogs
― koogs
Windows, at least, runs like crap with anything less than 15% drive space, and <10% is unbearable.
The 1tb plan is 8£/month, if I was maintaining a digital music collection I'd use that for backup― niels
― niels
My DSL limit 12Mbps down and .3Mbps up -- theoretically, it would take about a month to upload 100GB even if i dedicated 100% of my bandwidth to the task. Maybe cable users could boost those numbers by a factor of 10+, but it would still take a month to upload a full TB.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 3 November 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
wow, those are low speeds?
I had .5mbps up in ~2004 and with my last ISP 50mbps up
― niels, Friday, 3 November 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
... that's the fastest available for my location
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 4 November 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
cool, there's more to life than fiber optics
can I ask where you live?
― niels, Saturday, 4 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
rural michigan, usa.
Also of note, i use an android app called muzecast to stream my stax anywhere over my wifi; works okay once it grinds through all the database set-up.
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Years ago, I had a Windows program that would go through my MP3s and compile a list of errors and offer to fix them. For example, it would add a release year, or it would highlight tracks that had an incorrect track name. Anyone know of something that does that these days?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 10 November 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
What would the source database be?
― calstars, Friday, 10 November 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
musicbrainz picard
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
What I need is something to tag the original release date of everything, like all of the tracks on a best of compilation should have the years they were originally released, not the year the best of was put out.
I know this thing probably doesn't exist, but it would save a lot of time for me.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah this is a big problem. You’d think that sometthing like this wouldn’t be that hard to code, you’d just query the database (discogs, rym, allmusic) for the track name + artist, receive a table with all matches and take the lowest value for release year. I’m not sure if the API’s of these databases allow that type of queries tho.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 11 November 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
are those APIs even public?
― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Saturday, 11 November 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
Discogs is, I dunno about the others
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 11 November 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
You can also download the entire discogs database as XML, or at least you could a few years ago, cos I wrote some code to import the whole thing into SQL Server (was supposed to be for a work colleague who wanted to use it for some idea he had that didn't work out, so I never actually used it for anything).
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 11 November 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Wonder how you’d account for different versions - international , re-issues with bonus tracks etc.
― calstars, Saturday, 11 November 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
Seems like some error is bound to creep in...
it already exists, it's called musicbrainz picard and beets for the more technically inclined
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Saturday, 11 November 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
Really, it can do that? OK, checking this out, thanks.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 11 November 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
apparently iTunes can't count artists beyond 9,800? i know i should stop using itunes but the songs still _play_
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
I have no where near that many artists but I noticed my itunes being really choppy lately. Thinking about finally transferring over to Media Monkey - not sure if that'll help your 9.8k artist situation, though.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 11 February 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
I don't know my artist count, but Media Monkey has been able to handle my 130k-song database. However, when i last loaded the entire stax it required many, many days to load via a USB 2.0 interface.
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 17 February 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
I'm up to 907 GB in iTunes now and it runs fine on a late 2013 iMac.
― skip, Saturday, 17 February 2018 08:22 (six years ago) link
How many days of listening does 903 GB of music equate to?
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
Sorry 907
jesus that's a lot of music, even if it's all FLAC
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 17 February 2018 12:29 (six years ago) link
skip's real name is "kevin spotify"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
xp don't think iTunes does FLAC even at this late date, are there plugins?
I have >3TB, long past using any "library" software, just alphabetized folders that get dumped into VLC to play
― sleeve, Saturday, 17 February 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
I've been doing more pruning of my digital collection, something I really haven't done for 20 years of accumulating it. If I have heard music and feel ambivalent towards it, it's being deleted, forever. Promising debuts by artists with disappointing sophomore slumps have been hit hardest. Life is too short to listen to everything, and I'm not preparing a time capsule for future cultural historians.
― Acanthonus armatus (Sanpaku), Saturday, 17 February 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
nevermind, i figured out the artist issue, it was sorting by the "album artist" and a lot of my "album artist" tags were junk.
i should probably stop adding music to my library at some point but i keep hearing more great music. do you know i'd never heard "chase" by giorgio moroder until this week? what a great tune! anyway i can't possibly keep track of all the stuff that's in my library right now, even as heavily curated as it is.
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
― Acanthonus armatus (Sanpaku)
i can't make it past the regret. anytime i delete something i want to listen to it again the next day. (if i get that far. "do i really need abu lahab's 'as chastened angels descend into the thoracic tombs'?" i ask myself. i can't even remember what it sounds like. and so i put it on to remind myself and HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME.) plus i'm now manually syncing the libraries on my desktop and my laptop, which is just a mess. even if i did delete, say, the fourth "uncle acid" album (which i don't think i would regret), not only would i have to do it twice, but it would wind up being a drop in an extremely large bucket.
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
you could always just download it again? unless it's very rare/niche
― niels, Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
yeah rare/niche is kind of what i do :( i got stuff in my library i'm pretty sure i'd never be able to find again if i lost it.
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
xp
343 days
― skip, Saturday, 17 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
What! That’s way less time than I expected. Ideally you should have enough to last beyond your life expectancy.
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
^ that's still kind of insane, though. That's still going 1,029 days - assuming you listen 8 hours a day - without repeating songs, lol.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
It would be interesting to figure out the real-world equivalent if they were records or CDs...
― skip, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
How much space it would take up, I mean.
Nice:
More than any single moment with any one record, however, this illogical trip with an unwieldy Case Logic binder has reaffirmed for me the supremacy of the compact disc when it comes to deep, dedicated listening. Sure, records are prettier and bolder, individually grooved art pieces available for the mass market. And streams and downloads are the epitome of convenience, a moving at-the-fingertips library that lets you hopscotch between rabbit holes of subgenres and discover artists in less time than it takes to drive to the record store. CDs split the difference, giving you the mobility and clarity of a digital file while giving you an object to grasp, to study, to treasure. Away from home from a year or so without almost all of my belongings, seeing my initials scrawled on discs I’ve had since middle school is a surreal and welcome emotional connection.
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/what-i-learned-road-tripping-across-north-america-with-one-of-those-giant-cd-binders/
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
Great article. Thanks for the link, AC.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
I have four of those cases lol
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link