Maintaining a Digital Music Collection

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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 (three days ago) 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 (three days ago) 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 (three days ago) 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 (three days ago) 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 (three days ago) link

very cool links there ty

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

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

diamonddave​85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, 3 November 2024 23:11 (three days ago) link


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