Basically as they say: "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly" Over the time and many setbacks (lost stuff, not able to find st

Basically as they say: "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly" Over the time and many setbacks (lost stuff, not able to find stuff) I have also drifted to a very simple solution: use a file system to organize and store your stuff. This is valid equally for pictures and for music (and documents, and books, etc.). This makes sure you will never loose your stuff. Backups, search, copying etc. is provided by tested and reliable tools either from the OS itself or the standard tools like rsync. Everything else is "on top". For example you can use iTunes, Clementine, Foobar, whatever music library software you want, but keep your mp3s in folders sorted by rating/artist/album/song and you will be able to migrate between the vendors, backup, restore, script conversion (need to compress music and resize photos further for the phone to fit into 128GB limit of the sdxc card). Same thing with the Photos. I use very simple folder structure of Year/Location. Bad shots are just mercilessly deleted (power to the Paper Bin!). Super good ones a copied to Favorits. Because photos are coming from different devices I have given up on filenames for lack of consistency. And, should the vendor drop your library management software in next 10 years what will you do? With a filesystem oriented approach you can be sure to have it available 50 years down the road, or something better comes around and you will just upgrade.