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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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/htmlviewAnd 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 (one month ago) link
very cool links there ty
― dmt taking comedian podcaster (sleeve), Sunday, 3 November 2024 16:11 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
there's a pretty comprehensive 4rch1v3.0r6 collection iirc
― diamonddave​85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, 3 November 2024 23:11 (one month ago) link
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)
― koogs, Sunday, 1 December 2024 18:55 (one week ago) link