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Hey all, I just happened upon a trove (~100gb) of MP3s from when I was a sweaty teenager with a DSL line and a 5-disc ripper. Anyone have recommendations on OSS toolsuites to begin indexing/sorting out the files? Everything apparently got flat dumped from a directory structure to a folder. There’s metadata in about 90% of the content - ~10k songs to sort through shouldn’t be too rough with hashing.

I’d be more than willing to seed once everything is in a happy place, there’s probably a few hundred studio cuts of songs that haven’t seen the light of day yet.

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[-] badlotus@discuss.online 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sounds like a good task for MusicBrainz Picard

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Now that's a name I haven't seen in a loooooooong time. Excellent tool last time I used it...about 15 years ago.

Good recommendation.

[-] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

We're still developing it! New major version soon!

[-] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/09/10/picard-3-release-candidate-2/ it gets closer!

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I used this very recently to clean up multiple iPod backups (80-120GB) from my high school days. You still need to delete duplicates manually, but the software makes the task immensely easier.

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