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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • My system used to always be a music folder full of album subfolders named like artistName - year - albumName. I did so much manual work to make that happen and then Spotify came along. I mostly neglected my collection for a decade, only adding to it occasionally. When Spotify aligned themselves with Nazis I cancelled my subscription and started about hosting my own collection with Plex for streaming. I had let my organization system go to shit and now I’ve got a mess.

    I’m currently working on a script that will identify naming convention issues and eventually spit out a list of commands for renaming/moving folders. I also want the script to identify metadata issues, dupes, and missing tracks. I know there are a lot of tools that do a lot of this already, but I don’t like any of them I’ve found so far. I especially don’t like the idea of an opinionated tool redoing my library by making destructive writes, thousands of files/folders at a time, without me approving changes first. A lot of them work that way.




  • Ps being afraid of answering the phone is not a disability. I’ve had crippling social anxiety my whole life and don’t love phone calls either but I don’t make it my personality or anyone else’s problem. If someone calls me I either answer or not. I don’t seek approval for it being a tiny inconvenience (5 minutes of awkwardness at worst) I want to overblow.