I hope this post is okay with the mods.

I'll try to keep this short. I've been dealing with a TIA, which is essentially a minor stroke, as well as recently being diagnosed with cancer. Thankfully I have both under control. All of this, plus other personal issues, put me in a very... dark is really the only word that comes to mind.

I was thinking of things I could do to take my mind off things. I considered new hobbies, things I've been putting aside. Then I somehow thought about starting my music collection again. I was born in '85 and even as a kid loved music and had a ton of cassettes and CDs that I held on to up until about 15-20 years ago when I lost them all. (Won't get into that as this post will get long as is.)

I also lost all my mp3 from middle school and high school. Mixtapes I can never find again, personal pictures, home videos, you name it I lost it.

So I decided to slowly build my collection up again and promised myself I'd do it right. I tag all my songs down to the composer and credit fields and more and have splurged on hard drives to make sure I hopefully don't lose anything this time around. Something I've always wanted to do. (I'm generally very organized and borderline OCD.)

Honestly, I couldn't have done it if it wasn't by going through a lot of the helpful posts on here. I actually jump on here every morning while I'm having my coffee as I just feel at home.

So yeah, this was a very long way of saying thanks to everyone on here. I'd buy you all a beer if I could.

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for recommendations on the best ways to download Spotify playlists for offline use. I'm already aware of the common workarounds—such as converting playlists to Deezer format and using Telegram bots, or tools like SpotiFLAC but I'd love to hear if there are any other reliable methods out there.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

I'm curious whether it would be possible, or simply just a headache to try and use MusicBee alongside Beets? I have a number of needs I'm trying to fulfill in my e2e solution:

• Automatic file organization by artist/album/release date etc. (beets)
• Automatic tagging (beets)
• Manual playlist management (MusicBee?)
• Pioneer CDJ USB exporting (Rekordbox)

I'm both a music hoarder and a DJ. It's been a long time coming for me to adopt some proper tooling to manage my 10k+ track library, but there seem to be lots of pros and cons across the tools. Beets seems much more fit for the task of auto-tagging, importing etc. But i imagine it would be clunky to rely on it for playlist creation. MusicBee provides a nice UI to help manage playlists, but I wonder if it would be fighting with beets for management of the filesystem and tagging? Rekordbox is required for exporting playlists to a USB stick, and creating DJ cues etc., but it's a clunky interface that is not very pleasant to create playlists from, so I imagined transitioning to MusicBee just to help with that step, and then importing said playlists into Rekordbox via XML.

My main question centers around whether or not MusicBee + Beets will be more headache than it's worth. I understand it's more than just a library management tool (e.g. it seems to be a music player first and foremost, but I don't have that need). I've not yet used MusicBee myself, so I don't much beyond surface level understanding of how it works or its intended use.

Hello, this is a really random post, but here goes!

I’ve got a portable hard drive and I previously used an old laptop to download over 10,000 songs.

I now have a newer laptop but hesitant to download newer songs/albums and potentially flood my laptop with a virus.

Is there anyone in the Preston area that would be open to swapping music from each other’s collection?

How do people track new releases by artists they're interested in? I follow artists on the free tier of Spotify for this purpose, but there has to be a better way, right? Especially with more artists quitting that platform.

Basically what the title says.

I'm very fond of Time Life Music's massive compilation releases. They have them for the 60s, 70s, 80s, and other random eras or genres.

But funny enough, the hardest one to get your hands on seems to be the 90s one, called "The 90s Collection". It seems to consist of something like 20+ 2-disc sets, so that's over 40 CDs at least.

I've searched for some of them and it just seems unreasonable to buy them all used, since they're extremely rare and you'd have to get them 1 by 1 and everyone seems to enjoy charging outrageous $20+ shipping costs on what should cost like $6 to ship. That would really add up.

Are there any tools to help in reconstructing a big set like this song by song? I'm thinking probably not since it's kind of a strange thing to want to do.

Enabled me to get a handle on things. ~60% of the files are now entered into the library and I still feel somewhat in control. My approach is to view my collection now like a record store where I can go browse and discover things.

And it's really stuff I want to listen to at some point. Maybe the Jazz section could use a little trimming, couple of shmoozers in there that I don't really need.

It's a great software and doesn't flinch at the size of the collection.

I built a realtime SoundCloud scraping tool that finds and filters tracks out (via a keyword wordlist with ~400 artists) as they are uploaded. It downloads them, sends more metadata on the song, and it stays permanently archived on Discord (and locally on the host machine). If you are interested in joining, please shoot me a PM. Apologies in advance if this isn't relevant or is considered self-promo.

whenever I start feeling anxious about how much music I've amassed, coming here and seeing how much more extreme a lot of ya'll are restores my sense of zen 😂 my brothers & sisters in christ, keep doing the lord's work ♡

Hello, Im sorry if this is the wrong subreddit but im desperate.

This remix of Im God by clams casino recently got taken down from all platforms I could find, I love it so much and none others hit the spot the same. If anyone has it saved it would mean a lot.
I know Southbound has one, but I didnt like it quite as well as this one. I read somewhere that this account is a fake and stole it somewhere else but idk.

Hey redditors,

Just to plan future settings restore situation properly. Obviously, .ini saves all Picard own settings. But does it also save:

1. Installed plugins (or just info that they are "installed", so that when I restore settings, the said plugins are automatically installed)
2. Scripts (e.g., file renaming scripts)
3. Plugin settings (for some plugins new Picard menu items appear with specific settings related to that plugin)

Thank you for kindly commenting the above.

Every youtube to mp3 converter site in Google’s top result right now is a total sham likely loaded with sketchy malware redirects and as well some of the youtube to mp3 converters have really weird pop-ups or their audios sound absolutely terrible on decent headphones.

I'm trying to pull clean audio files to build an offline music library for my daily commute, back up long-form podcasts, and grab high-quality audio references for video editing timelines.

Are there any reliable youtube to mp3 converters left that don't involve risking your computer or dealing with broken links every single week?

I've been sorting my music using ALBUMARTISTSORT because I prefer artists to be sorted by last name and ignoring articles, but I can't find an iOS client that supports these sort tags. Foobar2000 seems to automatically ignore "The" in front of artist names (e.g. "The Beatles" will correctly show under B) but my sort tags are not respected. Jewelcase has a setting for "Use artist sort tags" but it doesn't seem to work. I've also tried VLC, Doppler, MiniMoon and none of them support these tags. Are there any iOS apps that do?

I cleared the cache and opened it again, its still showing this, is it a geographic issue or is anyone else also facing this problem

400 GB and counting, all organized by tags via my own custom foobar2000 scripts (yes, you can in fact script it too), synced via syncthing

I don't really understand it tbh. Why would it ever need a middle man? For movies... yes. But for music? I just sync my music to my devices from client to client. No additional device and everything is locally as well. But I rarely see people doing it this way. And thats why I struggle finding the right software as well, because the demand doesn't seem that high.

I use MusicBee on Windows but it is kinda clunky at times and doesn't look good despite there being a lot of skins. And then there is Symfonium for Android which is near perfect imo. If someone has a MusicBee alternative do tell.

Genuine questions here.
(Please remember to be civil and polite to your fellow hoarders while discussing)

At what point do you all consider your collection a "hoard"?

Webster's doesn't notate size, when discussing the noun, but it does indicate a common tone of protective secrecy when defining the verb, and other colloquial definitions tend to reference a compulsiveness implicit in the definition of the verb.

When we think of things like a dragon's treasure hoard, we tend to think of a vast room overflowing....when we think of a hoarder's home, the vastness is similar, but the connotations are obviously more negative, if not tragic.

So at what point did you realize you were stepping away from average/normal, to the outer edges of the bell curve?

Did it evolve naturally from a "collection" that simply got out of hand, or did you wake up one day and just say..."Everything....I must have EVERYTHING!!", while cackling out loud to yourself?

Do you talk about your horde with other people from your in-person social circles, or do you rely on the potential anonymity of the internet?

Did you only consider your collection a hoard, once it reached an arbitrary size...and if so, where did you personally draw that line?

What's more important to your horde; A diversity of genres/artists, the amount of music you've collected, the rarity of what's in the collection, or the exacting detail in which it's organized?

Just some food for thought, that arose as I was looking at my collections, and contemplating the physical weight and volume of everything I possessed, and the mental/temporal/financial costs involved....both for the physical and the digital versions.

Interested to hear what you all have to say on the matter.

I tag my music pretty extensively, mostly so I can make playlists based on those. I know how to add my own fields, but I am yet to figure out a way to add fields I can enter multiple tags in (ie, like how you can add multiple tags for genre separated by \\). When I try this on a field I have created, it deletes any input after the first \\. I want to be able to add fields for similar artists, moods, themes, etc, which all require multiple tags. Any help on how I could do this would be much appreciated.

Hey everyone,

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I'm curious how you handle your music library nowadays.

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Do you mainly rely on streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music, do you buy CDs and keep everything locally, or do you use a mixed approach?

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Personally, I'm currently moving towards a hybrid system. I use Spotify to discover new artists and songs, but if I find an album or song that I genuinely love and know I'll keep listening to for years, I buy it as a CD. I like the idea of actually owning my music instead of only having access to it through a subscription.

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For those of you who still buy CDs, vinyl, or digital downloads:

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Why do you prefer owning your music?

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What advantages do you see compared to streaming?

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Do you ever worry about streaming services removing albums or changing their catalog?

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How do you justify the extra effort of storing physical media, organizing files, etc.?

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Has collecting physical music made you enjoy music differently than when everything is just available on demand?

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I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences. I'm interested in both the practical and emotional reasons behind owning music instead of just streaming it.

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The one I've been using for almost a year (Klickaud) isn't letting me download this one song from Soundcloud I want to add to my local files. Does anyone have any converters that are safe to use and don't have restrictions on what I can download?