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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.

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[–] remon@ani.social 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Nah, it has very much been replaced with properly sorted .flac files. What ever is left is stuff I don't listen to anymore.

[–] P00Pchute@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I really want to go this route. Had Spotify, tempted to get Tidal but I don't want to deal with content coming and going anymore. I have about 300 gigs of random MP3s, and Flac files. I want to obtain more and move over fully to flac. Any recommendations on making the transition back to locally stored music.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I'm currently making the move myself and I've had a really easy time with soundiiz.com and YouTube-dl with a Linux GUI. Basically soundiiz takes your playlist from one service and makes an identical one on another service. You move all your jams to YouTube and rip the audio out of them with youtube-dl. Here's a wikihow with the deets

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

I gave up on trying to sort my initial batch and just started replacing.

First I try to find a full discography of an artist by a solid release group (for example "PEMEDIA or "88"). With those you can just copy the entire folder into the artist directory and plex/jellyfin etc will perfectly detect it. Then just add new albums as they are released.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

You can probably find a converter that will rip those files from Youtube for you. I did mine a year and a half ago. If I open Spotify it's just to see the playlists they made for me, because those are actually pretty good, but I rip those files and store them too.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

File format has nothing to do with proper sorting. I've got 350k songs properly organized by artist, album, etc, but mp3. I've no need for flac.

[–] remon@ani.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

File format has nothing to do with proper sorting.

Correct, it doesn't.

Main difference to mp3 is that flac is "lossless" so the audio quality is a bit better, but it requires more space (though still pretty insignificant compared to video).

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I know the difference, but it's irrelevant to organization.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org -2 points 4 days ago

There is a connection between flac and organization since flacs are a thing for audio nerds and they tend to be tidy :)

[–] remon@ani.social -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Right, I never said that it was?

I just found it much easier to just download and replace my library with files that are already sorted instead of sorting it myself. And when you're replacing them you might as well upgrade the quality.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, it has very much been replaced with properly sorted .flac files. What ever is left is stuff I don't listen to anymore.

Bold portion above insinuates they have to be flac format. But same is true for mp3, ogg, wav, etc.

[–] remon@ani.social 0 points 4 days ago

I don't think it insinuates that. I'm just describing what I did to my library.

When I say that I replaced bag full of apples with a neatly stacked box of pears that doesn't insinuate that only pears can be stacked.