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Music organization and the week's links. A couple years ago I went through my archive of music files and re-organized and re-tagged them using MusicBrainz Picard. I then discovered that the music player I use on Android, Musicolet, uses only an older version of the tagging standard so every time I edited a tag on the app, for example to change the genre, it totally fucked the rest of the tags up. Up until now I've been syncing a selection of music files with syncthing and using Musicolet or other local players, but I'm finally trying to make the switch to navidrome/subsonic on the NAS and then some sort of streaming app on the phone. But Navidrome has its own tagging preferences. So I'm going through them all again. The number of loose files, remixes, Japanese albums, rare soundtracks, and other files that simply do not exist on MusicBrainz in a sensible way makes this take a long time. But once you figure out how it works, this is a very powerful organizing tool. I'm testing out…

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