vivycakes

It looks like I’m FINALLY moving out of SoCal at the end of this summer, thank goodness! (knock on wood)

I’m thinking of doing this. It’s not a sure thing, I’ll have to research parts & cost first. HP can make something similar to what I want for about $1500, but they won’t let me opt out of their oodles of pre-installed garbage. So I think if I can do it for about the same cost or cheaper I’d rather learn something and build it myself. I like to tinker, and I can probably recycle a few parts from my current system, which was also custom built (not by me, but I did pick most of its parts).

I “finished” organizing my music files quite a while ago. I’m never really finished since I keep adding to my collection, but I’m done in the sense that I no longer have a backlog of files to organize. I can now just organize the new stuff as I download/rip them.

I only have about 1890 files so far and I keep them all in one folder (no subfolders). For naming/tagging, I use musicbrainz.org’s guidelines for the most part. I only slightly differ in naming classical files because mb’s scheme for them is very redundant. Because of the consistent file naming, when I go to my music folder everything is in my preferred alphabetical order. :)

I got a small headache from renaming classical mp3s from emusic (they always put the performer as the artist, not the composer which I prefer) and removing useless tags that emusic puts in every single mp3 (anything other than artist/album/track/tracknumber/year). I don’t care for genres and whatnot (shuffle ftw!).

I have a “master” playlist in foobar2000 which has all of my flacs/mp3s/etc. (see screenshot :D). I can sort the list in various ways, but I usually just leave it sorted by filename. I used Collectorz’s MP3 Collector program to generate a simple HTML list for my friends who wanted to see the collection. Maybe I’ll make it look fancier later.