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Struck Gold (mp3s) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Pomal@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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)
[-] 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.

[-] 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.

[-] CoffeeBreaker@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago

If you don't have trouble using the terminal, I'd recommend Beets.

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Oooooooooo, this is hot af. You’re a real one

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

It really is the best tool that comes to mind if you want to go through a very large library with minimal manual work.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

Music isn't torrents in 2026. We're all on Soulseek. You could certainly start there but make sure it's tagged well.

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

The real question, will rawdogging it trigger a DCMA?

[-] ThreeKnew@lemdro.id 4 points 1 week ago

It's safer than torrents, but tbh anytime you're uploading anything, you should be using protection

[-] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Is VPN enough protection for Soulseek? I think Nicotine+ flatpak is available on my distro

Picard mentioned in the other comment is great. If you want a more manual approach, on a Linux machine you can use exiftool to extract the metadata and then use that information to do whatever, e.g. organise them by folders.

A bit long code block

$ exiftool -j 救世主.ogg 
[{
  "SourceFile": "救世主.ogg",
  "FileName": "救世主.ogg",
  "FileSize": "3.4 MB",
  "FileType": "OPUS",
  "FileTypeExtension": "opus",
  "MIMEType": "audio/ogg",
  "OpusVersion": 1,
  "AudioChannels": 2,
  "SampleRate": 48000,
  "OutputGain": 1,
  "Vendor": "Lavf60.9.100",
  "PictureType": "Front Cover",
  "PictureMIMEType": "image/jpeg",
  "PictureDescription": "",
  "PictureWidth": 0,
  "PictureHeight": 0,
  "PictureBitsPerPixel": 0,
  "PictureIndexedColors": 0,
  "PictureLength": 102126,
  "Picture": "(Binary data 102126 bytes, use -b option to extract)",
  "Totaldiscs": 1,
  "Genre": "J-POP",
  "Encoder": "Lavf60.9.100",
  "Releasetype": "single",
  "Album": "救世主",
  "Language": "jpn",
  "Date": "2023-05-07",
  "Title": "救世主",
  "Totaltracks": 1,
  "Artist": "月詠み",
  "Duration": "00:03:20.868000000",
  "TrackNumber": 1,
  "Tracktotal": 1,
  "Disctotal": 1
}]

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My sushi roll experience was going to be iterating the byte-string headers and grabbing out anything of value, so essentially this. My hope was that there was a solution present to reduce the hand-rolling… tbd but it appears that Picard is a viable option based on yours and others commentary/upvotes

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

You're saying each mp3 is ~10MB? That's probably 320Kbps quality, so should be at least better than topical 128Kbps.

My maths: 10,000,000B ÷ 240 seconds song = 41,666B(yte).

41,666B × 8(bit) = ~333,333b

333,333b ÷ 1,024 = 325bps (thinking kibibit vs kilobit depending on your IS)

(again, rough numbers)

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I haven’t said anything 😘

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

I've for plenty of space to seed indefinitely. Waiting for that AA scrape to finally be available from Spotify lol

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

There were grand ambitions for a n-petabyte scale u. server in a milk crate, but then LLM happened 😭

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

I could make it happen eventually. I currently house a 4U 36 bay and 3U 24 bay in my 42U rack. Not fully populated, but currently 10x 8TB in raid 5 and 8x 16TB in raid 5. Only 1 spare 8TB 😅 a few older 3TB in raid 10 with plenty of spares.

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Sitting on mostly spinny shucked wd reds from whenever they’ve gone on sale and a few 1u servers w u. shenannigans. Nothing insane, still under 100tb in raid 10.

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

The only upside to my spinning disks are they're SAS enterprise grade. So long uptime and expected lifespan

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

GIMME MAXIMA S.M.A.R.T.!

I’ll see if I can track down my first SSD, The Ancient One, it’s an old 32gb g.skill

Picard can help you sort through most of it. It can identify most things even without tags. Just be careful and check everything it wants to do before letting it do its thing.

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

This is why thumb drives and write bits were made

[-] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago

As long as each music disc has it's own folder

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Practices from a sweaty teen that obviously loved during the time of CD changers, with a reflective self objectifying them as such. Obviously I’ve shown growth since based both on the OP and comments in this thread.

Reading literacy is hard.

[-] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

???

Well if it indeed is a flat directory structure and you can't restore some kind of subdirectory from e.g. filenames or metadata, then musicbrain picard won't help you because it can't "cluster" and use that find matching releases. Afaik there is no software that can do that without some kind of pre-clustering.

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Have you tried strawberry music player? Has some pretty decent tools to get music files organized.

[-] Pomal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They use a bunch of copilot LLM actions and code updates across their platform. Picards last release is before any major agent rewrites to the main branch, so it’s been pinned.

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry, what are you saying? No offence but this response is a mess of non sequitur. The Picard thing makes no sense.

I get that maybe you don't like SMP cause they started using AI tools (fair) but, if you actually look at the codebase none of what would help you is even AI driven and has been a stable function long before the dev started using AI.

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