Tending to my Digital Music Hoard (2 year update)

In my 2nd ever post on this blog - 2 years ago! - I wrote about tending to my music collection, so on the anniversary of that post I figure now is a good time for an update. I am still using Navidrome, I enjoy its simplicity and focus. When I started with it spun up several instances: A small curated collection I built from the ground up of my current favourite music A lossless collection of all my FLAC files, mostly CD rips of my own CDs made during lockdown A big bucket of everything else, including some MP3 files going back to the 90's In the end though I found this was just badly compensating for the real issue which was the poor organisation of my music so I ended up merging them into one and re-doubling my efforts to get the music properly organised. The main tool as before was Picard, although I found synchronising music between my workstation and my server frustrating, the breakthrough came when I discovered Picard-web so I could host Picard directly on my headless server,…