I’m a resident of the retirement home, but this is still funny.
I’m a resident of the retirement home, but this is still funny.
You can keep tagging files ~forever and still not have them perfect… I just stop after when I think it’s good enough and I might start tagging them again at another time.
QFT!!
My current genre process is more hands-on but it’s working for me. When I grab something, usually a complete discography, I look up the artist on Discogs, and use their genre pick. Sometimes I will put in specific genres for specific albums but usually, one genre for the whole discography is good enough.
Normally I can tolerate the Discogs genre picks, and this gives me a pretty consistent and bounded list of genres used in my library.
But like you said, it can never be perfect. Organizing my library can be kind of soothing though, like playing solitaire.
Great guide, thanks for sharing.
I would like to add that for people who may be intimidated by the tagging section, the tags that Deemix gives you are usually pretty decent to start with. You can clean them up to match your preferred format with a couple of quick mp3tag shortcuts. The hardest part is rectifying genres, which it looks like a lot of your automation is designed to do.
mp3tag is an amazing tool and anyone with a big music collection would be well served to study it!
That would make sense, though it is surprising how my old phone still gets some of the new stuff.
100% Usenet here. Maybe I am basic, but it has everything I want and grabbing stuff is very easy.
Once in a great while I cannot find something and then I ask a friend to check his private trackers.
YMMV
There must be more to it than being a Pixel phone, as I have a Pixel and I do not have those features unlocked. It’s an old Pixel, though.
I’m glad someone enjoyed the reference. :)
It’s a fair cop.
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I can’t believe you’ve done this.
I’m upvoting you because you used a question mark, and deserve to be rewarded for it.
To answer your question, my method is Usenet, and I am very happy. It does require spending a little money to get a good indexer and Usenet provider.
I use this too. It’s a good extension but I noticed these issues.
I still use it regularly.
I actually listen to music on Twitch a lot. I follow a handful of streamers who play music I like, and are always playing stuff that is new to me, and kindly list track IDs on the video feed.
I hear a song I like by an artist I am unfamiliar with and then guess what…? Entire discography.
♫ Don’t call it a comeback ♫
Plex’s specialty audio client Plexamp is pretty good if you want to make your own “radio stations.” And if you have a Plex Pass, the server does “sonic analysis” of each track so it can do a good job of playing related music in its smart playlists.
Of course, Plex Pass ain’t free, but if you are in it for the long haul the lifetime purchase may be worth it.
(Everyone’s worried about Plex’s future right now but I would be surprised if they killed self-hosting. That’s another topic though.)
I partially agree.
Reference books, with high-resolution images and diagrams, or subjects that invite constant page flipping, are great as physical objects. Most other books I prefer to have digitally. I do not need to have an object full of short stories or history lessons taking up space in my home.
I do like the feel of books and the look of a bookcase… But not as much as I like having that space for other things.
Everyone finds their own path in this, there are no wrong answers.
This image has the same number of pixels on the top and bottom half, but you can probably see the bottom half looks worse. That’s what lower bitrate does. It’s like turning up the compression on a jpg – you are not getting the exact same pixels, just the exact same image size.
https://i.imgur.com/CFriCXf.png