Maintaining a Digital Music Collection

that's what I do

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)

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

What if you have less than 5 songs of ZZ Top

zz ZZ Top

That looks like they're napping.

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).

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

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

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)

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

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!

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

sorry yes I meant 24/44.1 xp

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

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

I’ve never downloaded anything but MP3s from Bandcamp.

People are still burning CDs?

for the car, yes

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.

wild

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).

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

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...

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 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/

very cool links there ty

> 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

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)

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

just trying to sort out my new autechre purchases but they've changed the metadata from the previous copies - they are now part of a "AE_2022 - " album, only

00000270: 6d6d 656e 745b 355d 3a20 616c 6275 6d3d  mment[5]: album=
00000280: 4145 5f32 3032 32ef bc8d                 AE_2022....

that last " - " is actually a single character.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FF0D

plus having it all in one directory like this means one cover for all of them unless the device is clever enough to use the 4000x4000 embedded image

(and i renamed everything to ae_live_(iso8601)_(city) last time so it sorted nicely)