Maintaining a Digital Music Collection

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(and a lot of my video is archived from pvr and needs transcoding to a more modern format for space reasons. but it's probably approaching 1000 hours at this point)

koogs, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:56 (three months ago) link

one month passes...

I'm less worried about my music collection than my photos and creative projects, and have already lost enough precious data over the years to have come to the conclusion that outsourcing to the cloud is the best protection. That alongside some protection against "bit rot", like a hash-checking file system, or application.

beard papa, Friday, 13 September 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link

double CDs, how do you number then?

i add CD1, CD2 to the album title (sometimes) and add an extra digit to the front of the track number, 101..10n, 201..20m, but merge the directories

are there better alternatives?

(just copying them all the the new nas, 800GB of it, will see how the emby media server software likes it very shortly)

koogs, Sunday, 15 September 2024 18:05 (one month ago) link

actually that's not quite accurate

the filename becomes 1xx and 2xx within the combined directory but the metadata is

Title CD1, Track xx
Title CD2, Track xx

two digit, zero padded track number, suffix on the album title

koogs, Sunday, 15 September 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link

I use the disc number tag, my apps can all use that.

Siegbran, Sunday, 15 September 2024 18:45 (one month ago) link

that's what I do

Brad C., Sunday, 15 September 2024 19:12 (one month ago) link

never seen the disc number tag... until just now - it's in the emby metadata page

and emby seems to be doing the correct thing with Various Artists collections and using the Album Artist on the collection page, the individual artists on the individual album page (and not just using the first artist as the album artist like XBMC seemed to)

koogs, Sunday, 15 September 2024 19:29 (one month ago) link

i keep each CD in its own subdir (filenames 1.01, etc), use the standard metadata fields for disc numbering, and only add a suffix to the album title tag if there's an "official" one, otherwise it's just $albumtitle

chihuahuau, Sunday, 15 September 2024 19:37 (one month ago) link

but it's added every track artist on Wire Tapper 43 as an individual artist, which is going to cause all sorts of problems - like 20,000 artists, lots of them with only 1 track, and inconsistent names...

koogs, Sunday, 15 September 2024 19:41 (one month ago) link

but it's added every track artist on Wire Tapper 43 as an individual artist, which is going to cause all sorts of problems - like 20,000 artists, lots of them with only 1 track, and inconsistent names...

You don't have the option to tick a box labeled "Album is a compilation of songs by various artists"? Apple Music has that.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 15 September 2024 20:22 (one month ago) link

not that I've seen. the software is a bit new to me though.

in some ways this is useful - if the only track i have by an artist is on a compilation i wouldn't be able to find it easily - but in the other hand i have a lot of these and it's going to swamp the 'real' artists

koogs, Monday, 16 September 2024 05:15 (one month ago) link

(oh, maybe it's under 'filters')

koogs, Monday, 16 September 2024 05:16 (one month ago) link

I put zz before the name of any artist that I have less than 5 songs of. Then they're always going to be at the end and out of the way if I'm on a thingy that doesn't support the various artists thing.

Cow_Art, Monday, 16 September 2024 13:25 (one month ago) link

What if you have less than 5 songs of ZZ Top

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Monday, 16 September 2024 13:53 (one month ago) link

zz ZZ Top

That looks like they're napping.

Cow_Art, Monday, 16 September 2024 13:56 (one month ago) link

emby didn't seem to mind my

a/aphex_twin/selected_ambient_works/01_ajodiashduhi.flac

origanisation scheme, although it did use 'aphex_twin' for the artist title rather than use the actual tag. all the other values were as per the tags. it also did let me fix its idea of the artist name in its metadata.

figure i need to put flacs, oggs and 'others' into seperate folders and only point the software at the lossless version. (oggs are for walking around, 'others' are mp3s when that was the only purchase option (which i convert to flacs for consistency and to oggs for convenience, so everything should exist as flacs and oggs).

koogs, Monday, 16 September 2024 14:13 (one month ago) link

somehow accidentally deleted the entire "G" folder (77 GB) from my main drive, thank god for backups

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Saturday, 28 September 2024 21:38 (one month ago) link

correction: it was gone from the backup drive, not the main, new copy is going the other way

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Saturday, 28 September 2024 21:52 (one month ago) link

another weekend day of moving files here too, am up to r on the music. did find out that the 4tb music drive was actually only a 3tb drive (which means nas will have plenty of room for a laptop backup)

koogs, Saturday, 28 September 2024 23:34 (one month ago) link

OK so an annoying thing about Bandcamp doing all the new downloads in 24/96 is that the WAV files don't fit if you are burning a CD with them.

#firstworldproblems

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:27 (one month ago) link

Hmm... just checked my own label's page and am rather surprised to see downloads in 24/44.1 offered, as I only uploaded 16/44.1 WAVs!

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:32 (one month ago) link

You could get Goldwave and save the files as 16bit 44hz before burning a cd. Extra step, but it would work.

The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:33 (one month ago) link

sorry yes I meant 24/44.1 xp

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:41 (one month ago) link

and yeah I can recode them using Amadeus, but it's a giant PITA< I don't need 24 bit versions of Australian garage punk

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:42 (one month ago) link

I discovered this recently trying to make a mix CD of recent stuff

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:42 (one month ago) link

I’ve never downloaded anything but MP3s from Bandcamp.

o. nate, Friday, 4 October 2024 02:31 (one month ago) link

People are still burning CDs?

ArchCarrier, Friday, 4 October 2024 13:48 (one month ago) link

for the car, yes

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:17 (one month ago) link

not just cds though. i've had problems with playing files on my (cheap) portable device because the files were 'better' than the usual files and i had to downsample them to get them to play.

koogs, Friday, 4 October 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link

wild

go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:32 (one month ago) link

four weeks pass...

this weekend's task: afx SoundCloud dump. i found a list where someone had numbered them chronologically and decided to copy that. 270+ files to rename and sanitise and retag (and actually listen to)

list contains about 20 things i don't have (and includes links to those) and doesn't include the latest stuff (uploaded to the new account).

koogs, Sunday, 3 November 2024 12:12 (yesterday) link

doesn't yt-dlp work on soundcloud? it can do the tagging/renaming for you once set up properly, but only if the SC tags are already good enough

chihuahuau, Sunday, 3 November 2024 12:19 (yesterday) link

they aren't! the upload is multiple tapes all of which are numbered 1-n so you have a lot of track number 1 with not enough disambiguation in the tags. so this was a faff but it gets easier as you go because there are less files to match against.

some of the files have a description tag in them with details i haven't seen before. the very first seems to claim that these are not afx related...

koogs, Sunday, 3 November 2024 12:29 (yesterday) link

and he made the vast majority of the files downloadable from soundcloud originally. so they exist in various places as bulk downloads. the list i'm using is just a directory listing from archive.org

koogs, Sunday, 3 November 2024 12:31 (yesterday) link

Koogs you probably saw these already but I found these resources useful when collating the SoundCloud dumps:

spreadsheet of SoundCloud tracklist +assorted data:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ouNaaVrNp60Ib34Kp0TO1n1XSc7-9DvfiZ9ZiTiD2c/htmlview

And rareafx made a nice comprehensive list of leaked songs with short descriptive blurbs:
https://rareafx.wordpress.com/aphex-twin-old-dat-and-cassette-demos-soundcloud-janfeb-2015/

brimstead, Sunday, 3 November 2024 15:27 (yesterday) link

very cool links there ty

dmt taking comedian podcaster (sleeve), Sunday, 3 November 2024 16:11 (yesterday) link

> description=like early aphex but I'd never heard of him when I wrote all these tracks im going to be uploading

^ fake news

this would be a lot easier if the files weren't called things like


263 I want to be with you[afx editional][a side][edward'get down' crosby mix] [88]-street side boyz [prod master c&j, writ c&j [for get down productions][ss-102]+3db.mp3

koogs, Sunday, 3 November 2024 17:57 (yesterday) link

but i'm done, with the 279 files i have anyway. 13GB of flacs.

(yeah, flacs made from lossy mp3s, but hey, disk space is cheap. keeps my workflow easier if all the masters are flacs)

koogs, Sunday, 3 November 2024 18:00 (yesterday) link

there's a pretty comprehensive 4rch1v3.0r6 collection iirc

diamonddave​85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, 3 November 2024 23:11 (yesterday) link


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