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.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    32·
    1 year ago

    That can be fixed easily* with programs like beets

    * = the program itself is easy to use, but installing and configuring it, requires a PhD in Linux-Arch-ology

    • Hawke@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      Musicbrainz Picard is a lot easier than beets, although it does require some introductory concepts to make sense (e.g. terminology like “release”, “release group”). And it makes it too easy to accidentally poison datasets in an attempt to be helpful. Harder to automate than beets, too.

      Both of them also benefit from a decent knowledge of where your files came from, not as good for a random pile of mp3s.

    • littleomid@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I used MusicBrainz Picard when I stopped paying for Spotify. Went over my old library, audio tag matched all my songs, added all metadata, sorted everything. I moved it to Nextcloud and using the Music Player plugin, I have my own Spotify using any supersonic/ampache client. Life is good.