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I kind of like how everyone appears to universally hate the advice here. I'm a 320K mp3 guy myself. Here's the thing I've come to realize over years and not su
by jrm4 3y ago
I kind of like how everyone appears to universally hate the advice here. I'm a 320K mp3 guy myself. Here's the thing I've come to realize over years and not sure where to go with it.
All the great tools out there for tagging etc are ALBUM/ID3 oriented. I use Beets and it's really good for when I want the whole album.
But now I'm realizing: there's a lot of songs I have for which I really really don't want the whole album. So I have this massively old collection of random mp3's with weird tags. Anyone come up with tips or ideas how to begin to tackle something like this?
(edit, again, I don't much mean like "what software," more like -- how do you organize this? I keep coming up with decent possibilities, but none perfect and none that I can motivate myself to work on?)
- interroboink 3y agoI have a similar collection of one-off miscellaneous songs accrued over years. I've done a few passes with my own scripts to get the tags a little more sane, but it'll never be 100%, and I don't spend too much effort on it. For me, I keep things in Artist/Album structure, mostly. But there's always a "Misc" folder for each artist, for the one-off stuff. There's also a top-level "Misc" folder for truly random tidbits. For streaming in my home, I use Logitech Media Server (formerly Squeezebox), and have been happy with that for many years. It's open source, so I can always build my own player from a raspberry pi in the future if I need to. I tentatively hope it will last me the rest of my life (: Sometimes I just randomly search LMS for some text and see what songs come up, to find random stuff. Or sometimes I search on the filesystem using normal unix tools (`find`, `grep`, `locate`, etc). Works for me, but I'm not a major music nerd, either.