i'm on my way...
just got all my albums sorted into these folders:
http://www.wingedleopard.net/lucas/images/music_sorted.png
just got all my albums sorted into these folders:
http://www.wingedleopard.net/lucas/images/music_sorted.png
an interesting way to sort the music
i have no idea what any of that means
so lr maybe you can answer this question for me since no else really seems to be able to answer it. for some time now ive been trying to figure out why in itunes all my music can be the same volume then when i play them in winamp the volume of the track varies wildly from extremely soft to extremely loud without me touching the volume button. ive also noticed it when i make mp3 cds. i always thought it was the bit rate but even files with the same bit rate will do it.
Its the gain for each song, itunes adjusts for each song (you can turn it off in the settings). The bitrate is how much data per second is being played. . . the higher bit rate the higher quality of sound.
yeah but also it's different audio formats
I haven't heard of apx or aps though, I'm not sure what that is all about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_bitrate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bitrate
I haven't heard of apx or aps though, I'm not sure what that is all about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_bitrate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bitrate
Shouldn't it say "fewer than 192kbps"?
> I haven't heard of apx or aps though, I'm not sure what that is all about.
they are variable bitrate Automatic Presets in LAME--Standard and Extreme.
look under the preset column here:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title … nformation
they are variable bitrate Automatic Presets in LAME--Standard and Extreme.
look under the preset column here:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title … nformation
how do you play your music? if it's not with a library-based program like iTunes, navigating those folders could get old.
yeah.. it does get old. :o
haha. library ftw.
I have my stuff separated into acquired and pending folders. acquired being stuff that I own on CD and pending being stuff I don't.
I have my stuff separated into acquired and pending folders. acquired being stuff that I own on CD and pending being stuff I don't.
oh and stuff in acquired is meticulously organized, stuff in pending is a huge mess.
haha… "pending" sounds like you will almost buy it…
I fucking hate Itunes.
i'm glad more people in my world don't love it
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- audio
- albums
flac albums sorted like this:
album_artist_-_album_title/disc_nrxtrack_nr_-_track_title.flac
example: pink_floyd_-_the_wall/2x06_-_comfortably_numb.flac
all files tagged with: title, artist, album, year, track number, genre and disc number
yeah, i'm a bit obsessive about my albums :)
- lossy
- albums
lossy albums
- mixtapes
lossy mixtapes
- singles
just a bunch of mp3s and ogg/vorbises.
- modules
modules made with different trackers
- playlists
playlists for internet radios
- singles
lossless singles i.e. some piano recordings a friend of mine made
- tmp
music to be tagged and sorted
when i listen to music i either
- listen to one album all the way through,
- listen to a mixtape all the way through,
- listen to a radio station until i get bored or
- randomly play some singles.
easytag and metaflac help me keep my albums nice and tagged, while mplayer and mpd interprets the files into something the sound driver can understand. :)
oh, and i also hate itunes, although i've never used it :D
awesome, bluet is as ocd as me!
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switching to foobar
massive tag cleanup op in progress
massive tag cleanup op in progress
Musicbrainz picard is great for tagging stuff!
only problem is i have 140gb of music to tag
musicbrainz takes too long and i have to lookup each album manually :(
musicbrainz takes too long and i have to lookup each album manually :(
and it crashes when it has loaded about 75% of my library.
It's not perfect (far from it), you can't load to many files at once, and it has quite a few bugs ... But all the other applications I tried sucked even more ...
What I did was just to tag one artist at a time, When stuff is tagged everything is moved from /nfs/music/ to /nfs/music.new/ automatically by picard ...
It takes time ... But as far as I could figure out, it was the fastest way to make sure all files were tagged properly and complete...
In any case, I doubt there any fast and easy way to tag 140GB of music automagically ... If you do find a way, I want to know!
What I did was just to tag one artist at a time, When stuff is tagged everything is moved from /nfs/music/ to /nfs/music.new/ automatically by picard ...
It takes time ... But as far as I could figure out, it was the fastest way to make sure all files were tagged properly and complete...
In any case, I doubt there any fast and easy way to tag 140GB of music automagically ... If you do find a way, I want to know!
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MP3Tag is crucial on Windows. there is nothing comparable on OS X, unfortunately.
25GB of perfect v0/flac music
40GB of music to be replaced
i'm on my way...
40GB of music to be replaced
i'm on my way...
77 GiB flac sorted
74 GiB flac to be sorted
better get started
74 GiB flac to be sorted
better get started
are you a flac monster bluet
hello, my name is bluet, and i am addicted to flac
asemi is there actually nothing like mp3tag for os x?
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there really isn't. there are like two or three programs and they all suck so much it's not even funny. then there is this one that looks good but it tags like everything except for mp3s. (it's called Tag if you want to check it out for tagging flac or something.)
the first time I installed Windows in a VM it was solely for MP3Tag.
the first time I installed Windows in a VM it was solely for MP3Tag.
i might use this. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger
i tried it once on windows and it scared the shit out of me though - froze and was really slow - mind you that was using an external hd.
i tried it once on windows and it scared the shit out of me though - froze and was really slow - mind you that was using an external hd.
it sucks don't do it.
actually wait I think they just recently ported that to OS X. maybe I'll try it.
well i've used it before, i know what i'm getting into. and methinks it is platform-independent
yeah this kind of sucks nevermind.
song scanning doesn't work in the os x version. not that I'd want to pull all my info from Musicbrainz anyway. I don't see any way to batch edit mp3 files either.
51GB of perfect v0/flac music
sorted flac: 67,2 GiB
incoming flac: 74,1 GiB
even more incoming flac: ~10 GiB
even even more incoming flac: a couple gigs
lossy: ~30 GiB
incoming flac: 74,1 GiB
even more incoming flac: ~10 GiB
even even more incoming flac: a couple gigs
lossy: ~30 GiB
I'm suffering so much right now
i finally got all my music into one directory:
$ du -sh /pub/1/music/ 339G /pub/1/music/
I finally fixed my sorted stuff. So I have about 250GB sorted, 80GB unsorted MP3, and 150GB unsorted FLAC.
that is a pretty absurd amount of mp3s. I've only got 17 GB, mostly V0 mp3.
i now have 100GB of beautifully organized albums, all v0 and flac.
im only about 100 GB through my 280 GB of music
I managed to get down to 7.5 GiB of music. Now I can actually find stuff I want to listen to. :)
nice. since four months ago i have added 80GB.
bluet you went from 340G to 7.5G?
Thats impressive.
Thats impressive.
I'm at about 10G in my new collection: v0 mostly.
> bluet you went from 340G to 7.5G?
It probably went to 350 GiB before I started cleaning up.
It probably went to 350 GiB before I started cleaning up.
I would call that something more drastic than "cleaning up"!
hah annihilating seems to be more suitable
Annihilating sounds good. :)
Organized all my music! Properly tagged, stored, indexed, and whatnot! Just over 80GB in total.
... And then I went to the interwebz and downloaded 10 more GB to be sorted :-(
... And then I went to the interwebz and downloaded 10 more GB to be sorted :-(
I got all my music files sorted out by artist -> album.
now i just have to go through and fix all the tags and get rid of a few more duplicates.
now i just have to go through and fix all the tags and get rid of a few more duplicates.
``Just'' fixing the tags isn't always that easy ...
I wrote a few script to snuff out errors and stuff, also made nice HTML page:
http://www.carpetsmoker.net/music.html
I wrote a few script to snuff out errors and stuff, also made nice HTML page:
http://www.carpetsmoker.net/music.html
foo_discogs with file operations is the best!
I like the web page carpetsmoker
Thanks. Python ftw!
this is kind of ambitious of me but I've wanted to something like that, but also encorporate the ability to upload albums and stream the music.
alas, something for the future when I don't have to worry about school.
alas, something for the future when I don't have to worry about school.
Haha, then you will have work and lots of other stuff to worry about.
I used to think that I would have plenty of free time after I was done with school, I think many kids do. And they are all wrong unless they become jobless bums ;-)
I used to think that I would have plenty of free time after I was done with school, I think many kids do. And they are all wrong unless they become jobless bums ;-)
I just went through my music collection with MP3Tag and deleted a few things as well. I'm at 19.4 GB of music now, and everything is arranged like so:
Artist/Album (Year)/Track - Title
I have no more ID3v1 tags. everything is ID3v2.3 and non-UTF because I've had annoying problems with it before. all track numbers have leading zeros and wherever possible have a total track count for the album. a lot of track titles are still messed up (incorrect capitalization, notation for featured artists is inconsistent) but that is for another day :). or maybe later today.
Artist/Album (Year)/Track - Title
I have no more ID3v1 tags. everything is ID3v2.3 and non-UTF because I've had annoying problems with it before. all track numbers have leading zeros and wherever possible have a total track count for the album. a lot of track titles are still messed up (incorrect capitalization, notation for featured artists is inconsistent) but that is for another day :). or maybe later today.
I don't have a lot of Music and a lot of my music is downloaded from Youtube and converted to MP3, all I have atm is /Music/Artist/Song - Artist
This is alright because atm I don't have a lot of songs but I might have to organise it better in the future sometimes.
This is alright because atm I don't have a lot of songs but I might have to organise it better in the future sometimes.
this thread is due for an update.
I use rhythmbox to play my music now. and easytag to tag stuff. everything has album artwork embedded, and is arranged like so: /home/brian/Music/artist/album/track title.mp3. nothing too fancy. rhythmbox does a good job syncing with my ipod too. and I just hit 34 GB tonight! I was wondering when I'd get past 30.
I use rhythmbox to play my music now. and easytag to tag stuff. everything has album artwork embedded, and is arranged like so: /home/brian/Music/artist/album/track title.mp3. nothing too fancy. rhythmbox does a good job syncing with my ipod too. and I just hit 34 GB tonight! I was wondering when I'd get past 30.
Asemi
I use rhythmbox now too. I used an emacs front end to MPD for a long time but rhythmbox works with my iPod touch so I just use it now.
I use Picard (by musicbrainz) to organize/tag everything now. I love it. I'm at 30GB right now
I use rhythmbox now too. I used an emacs front end to MPD for a long time but rhythmbox works with my iPod touch so I just use it now.
I use Picard (by musicbrainz) to organize/tag everything now. I love it. I'm at 30GB right now
I use rhythm box on my centOS machine, but most of the time I still use foobar on my laptop and desktop. For tagging purposes I use MediaMonkey. As long as the current tags are in the ballpark for the right album MediaMonkey does a great job of finding and updating the info from amazon and embedding the album art.
I now have >50% FLAC (51.4%). And everything below 256kbps has gone out (excepting some releases where I couldn't find a higher quality and still found worth keeping).
Total size: ~320GB
Total tracks: 17018 (1450 albums)
Total duration: 8wk 0d 1:20:34.236
I use foobar2000 for pretty much everything except initial tagging, I do that with MusicBrainz Picard.
Still haven't found decent software for UNIX/Linux systems :-(
Total size: ~320GB
Total tracks: 17018 (1450 albums)
Total duration: 8wk 0d 1:20:34.236
I use foobar2000 for pretty much everything except initial tagging, I do that with MusicBrainz Picard.
Still haven't found decent software for UNIX/Linux systems :-(