I have a folder of MP3s, some of which date back to 1999, just a few years after the format was popularised. Most of them have utterly terrible names (think RIDEONAM.MP3). I think at this point they might even survive the heat death of the universe. And they’ll still be terribly-organised.
I actually got rid of all my old MP3s years ago. Not because I regret acquiring them, but because the quality sucked. Even 320kbps. You can’t tell CD from MP3 through my stereo, or in the car. But it is really obvious through my headphones, and ruins my critical listening experience. Had to re-rip all of my CDs to lossless, and lost all the ones I didn’t have CDs for.
That reminds me that I should definitely plug my phone into my desktop and do a ton of music folder creation and reorganizing. I’ve got over 500 files and I really need to fully organize every single one and reorganize the ones that are organized already. Same with my much smaller set on my desktop. Luckily that one isn’t nearly as bad.
I have a few thousand mp3s and they are all neatly organised with tags and sorted in folders by artist and album. Whenever I add something i make sure it follows my naming scheme and has all the tags. Has been like that since I got my first few albums when I was like 10.
Maybe I’m on the autism spectrum.
I have something similar on my laptop, but it’s only partially implemented on my desktop and phone. I only recently, within the last few years, really started to care. Some gear in my autistic brain started turning and now I need to have my music organized. I’ve just been held back on my phone and desktop because of how much work it would take, even though it would probably take less than an hour.
MusicBrainz Picard https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
I’ve used this to fix all my fucked up MP3 mess and it really helped a lot. Just make sure you change the input and output folders and let er rip!
It’s free
I don’t really do the folder of MP3s thing any more.
I am much more into the Jellyfin full of FLACs thing these days!
I bet up in the attic next to one of my sweet old Abit motherboards I have a dusty old hard drive with a folder full of music from the 90s and early 2000s.
Remember you can always check out CDs from the library and rip them to your collection.
immaculately sorted. IMMACULATELY!
Mine is sorted as well but I named the folder “unsorted”
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! 🤣
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
Use Deezer, ReFreezer and FolderSync to download my liked songs as mp3s and sync the files to my NAS.
Plexamp is my favorite music player. I miss it when trying out services. It’s so buttery smooth and quick.
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.
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.
I’m old enough to be one of Napster’s early adopters. Unfortunately most of my collection has been lost to either malfunction or negligence but due to most of the major streamers being fucking evil I’m back sailing the musical seven seas. And plus my internet is about 100x faster now so yohoho mehearties.
I was dipping my toes back in the seas earlier today, but did not find a good option, is there one you like for music other than rutracker which appears very sketch and needs an account?
Unfortunately, the fish aren’t as plentyful as they were back in the good ol’ days but I’m still finding most of what I want on pirate bay or 1337X. It’s just a case of finding the option with the most reliable seeds.
Aren’t private trackers the best method? But good luck getting an invite to them.
Side note, if someone has connections, I’m interested.
And no ads 😁
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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.
