Comment by piperswe
2 days ago
Still running and still doing great! Some of us still curate a local music library instead of streaming ;)
2 days ago
Still running and still doing great! Some of us still curate a local music library instead of streaming ;)
I curate my own library too but it's pretty much all off of Bandcamp. I don't even own a CD drive I could rip with any more.
Even with digital releases, MusicBrainz often has more detailed metadata than the original files. And if you have a mixed library of rips and digital purchases, it is nice to use a tagger like Picard to enforce consistent directory structure and filenaming.
You can curate a music library without ripping CDs tho.
Depends on your musical tastes. A good 25% of the music in my library is not available in any form other than used CDs.
What kind of music?
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I can curate my own library of bookmarks within [some other body's music library] without CDs; of course I can.
I can do that with iTunes or Spotify or Tidal or Amazon Music or whatever else.
But none of these bookmarks are necessarily related to my music. They are only just bookmarks that refer to music that might exist within the libraries that these bodies provide.
And while all of these libraries are certainly quite vast, there's a fuckton of (published!) music that these commercial libraries do not provide.
MusicBrainz has (or at least had) an acoustic fingerprint system for processing audio files too.
This is the part that tends to have the most mistakes, if used. It's generally better to provide minimal info manually if the CD wasn't identified by its ID.
Indeed! About half of my new music acquisition is on CD, the other half is Bandcamp/Qobuz/7Digital.