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MusicBrainz once rewrote my entire media library (over 100 GB of 320Kbps MP3s - this sounded slightly more impressive at the time) to all have the exact same me
by radlad 5y ago
MusicBrainz once rewrote my entire media library (over 100 GB of 320Kbps MP3s - this sounded slightly more impressive at the time) to all have the exact same metadata as a single song. I'm sure I clicked the wrong button. There was no undo button. I never used it after that (probably 8+ years ago.)
- hanklazard 5y agoDamn, that’s like my nightmare. Did you rebuild your collection?
- marvin 5y agoThe rebuild sounds like a fun project involving some online service that detects a song based on a snippet. This was probably not available when 100 gigabytes was very impressive, though.
- bardan 5y agoIt would be cool if there was a program that built a database out of your raw audio files, and that database was read by media servers like mpd. I want the user contributed data, but I don't necessarily want it to replace the original files.
- Fnoord 5y agoThis. I want my scene releases to be and remain SFV OK. But that doesn't mean the metadata is necessarily good. Its about data preservation as-is. That's why I never bothered with MusicBrainz Picard.
- raffraffraff 5y agoI would pay for a music metadata service that stored tags, ratings and playlists. It wouldn't even have to provide music streaming at all, as long as it could integrate with YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Dropbox or local files. Something that treated a playlist with the same respect as an album, capturing creation date, comments, tags, author. If I lost my whole music collection tomorrow, I could recover the actual tracks from Bandcamp/7Digital/rip etc. But my custom tags and ratings that I use to generate playlists, and the history of saved playlists found back over 15 years, would be impossible to recover.