I've got a directory like that on my computer, nested under a couple of /old_computer directories. At some point in the early 2000's I switched to a system of (still not so well named) full albums as hard drive sizes increased and internet connections got faster, leaving the old original directory of one-offs from the dialup days to wither.

My favorite part is the New Music directory where I stick new stuff I obtain until I give it a listen to it make sure that 1) it's something I actually want to keep and 2) whether there is any quality issues with the encoding. There's stuff in there with timestamps from like 2002. Yeah, I'm still planning to check that out....someday....

I find it funny how we've resorted to streaming services in an age where you can put 256 gigabytes ono a pinky nail sized storage solution. Ereaders are even better, my old Kindle with 4gb of storage can hold an entire library.

I may or may not know where there is a hard drive that has at least one mp3 that was acquired from Napster

And no of course it isn't named correctly, but thank you for asking.

Also it's not about princess Zelda or link

True. Mine's already over 25 years old. Just keeps hopping from hard drive to hard drive.

Use Deezer, ReFreezer and FolderSync to download my liked songs as mp3s and sync the files to my NAS.

I got a new pair and of waterproof headphones and consequently I have to load MP3s on them since Bluetooth doesn't work underwater. Go to NG through my collection from the late 90's was a wild trip.

Not unless you keep up with migrating your files. Drives fail over time.

I noticed the other day my car can play MP3 CDs and Ive been thinking about popping the one I used to have in my first car in there. It's still in one of the 5 CD books I have in my closet.

Spotify is the last subscription I have. I'm otherwise completely free of big tech.

The reason I can't let it go is because I actually would never find new music I like without it's algorithm. I've found such good music based off it's recommendations. I know I could still find these bands without a premium subscription. But, music is a big part of my life and I just don't want to faff around when trying to find some music I like. For the same reason I think I'd struggle to self host my music because it'd totally fail to work at the worst times no doubt

So will all my records. And probably tapes. And probably my stack of hdds that I have 3 backups of.

Bite me, corpo streaming leeches

mp3tag.de is what i used to properly name and tag my 60Gb mp3 collection

I have 4630 MP3s on my phone. Most of it is organized well enough. An album per folder. Lots of them are even tagged correctly. The folder on my PC that is holding probably 3X that is a horrible mess.

I'll sort it next year. Or next computer. Or...

How to protect against bitrot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation

I have two directories. The original badly sorted one and the duplicate directory that I ran through some tagging software that failed to properly tag everything. Of course I was going to fix that and so I added things there that aren’t in the original directory so I have to keep both around.