I just found all my old burned CDs including the folder of them I made for my spouse. I can't believe those songs won her over lol, but 20 years later here we are.
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I've been sorting my MP3 files since 2003. It's a Sisyphian task. Every few years I'm like "ok, let's sort those songs with the new, improved sorting method I just came up with" and after a few hours or days of intense sorting I just quit and let them be.
Maybe this will be the year I finally sort them out! 🤣
Yeah, that's what I thought too, until that drive failed during a system upgrade. I'm not ripping 300+ CD's AGAIN. Youtube it is.
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Just another person recommending Musicbrainz Picard.
I had about 600 sketchy music files. I had started using Kodi and I wanted my music library to look nice. So I cleaned up all the art and metatags. It was a bit of an undertaking. I actually added a few of my albums to their database. I'm happy with the result. MBP is a really cool project.
Also consider backing up to the cloud when you can. Never know when a rainy day will come by, or ICE for that matter.
"the cloud" is not a legitimate backup solution, and you're doing people a disservice by advertising it as such. The majority of service providers are just as untrustworthy as spotify.
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No need to change the names, they are too legendary. Well, seriously, these strange names and the like can be left simply as nostalgia.
To this day nearly a third of my Jellyfin library is stuff I downloaded through ourTunes over the dorm LAN in 2004/2005.