I am slowly consolidating and reorganizing all of my music files on my computer. It's from 6 different core libraries from 4 different hard drives and 2 users ranging back to 2002. And I used 7 different programs to rip my music with varying degrees of success. Getting everything into one main library. Merging folder groups. Fixing tags. Getting rid of dupes. Dumping bad or low quality rips. It's a process. I could probably automate at least some of it but what is the fun in that? Of course when I do this I have to listen to a bunch of music that I haven't heard in years. I also treat myself to a dram or twelve. Oh and fuck iTunes.
Dude. I started this process in January. It took me 3 days to get through "Compilations." Fortunately, all of my shit was on one computer and I needed to move it to another but even iTunes fucks with its own files. And then I let TuneUp rape it a few months ago thinking it would save me time (NOT). But yeah. Getting it so that only classical has composers, that there are only the 23 genres I believe in, that only multi-disc albums list multiple discs, and that all albums have ALL THE SONGS ON THEM legitimately took until February 28. I bought a $2300 NAS simply for backup. And I bought it because while all of my media is available elsewhere, I recognized that I spent a shit-ton of time getting my 1TB sample library to have my metadata on it. In an era where you can torrent just about anybody's stuff, having it beat to fit and painted to match your library counts for a lot. God speed.
Is that your Synology hub, or whatever they are called? That is the dream. Rigfht now I am running regular old, unraid-configured WD HDs with some cheapo Seagate external drives as backup. In the future I shall refer to these times as my Years of Living Dangerously. I only have 6 terabytes, I really should bite the bullet and get on that Synology train before the inevitable occurs. I think you and I are about the same age, do you remember this song? I completely forgot about it until I started doing this project. Been having that feeling a lot lately.I bought a $2300 NAS simply for backup.
A few years ago I thought it would be a good idea to write a script that used MusicBrainz' tagger to add uniform tags and sort my mp3 collection. I am still finding things mislabeled. I just went looking for this and found it tagged as this today. I advise against doing that.I could probably automate at least some of it but what is the fun in that?
Yeah that's part of the reason I'm going through and doing it all manually. I let one of the not iTunes programs rake one of my libraries once. I had a similar experience to yours. It's good to kinow I'm not wasting my time.