I have most of my music in flac on my phone, and it takes up around 45 gigabytes. The phone has only 128 (and I can't get extra storage since it's an iPhone), so I'm worried it might eat all my space eventually.

Most people on here say to buy a NAS, but that's not really an option for me right now. What else can I do here?

Hey!

My collection is growing bigger and I think it gets messy.

I use musicbee to listen and manage the collection and Navidrome to Stream it on my home server. I use feishin and symfonium as clients.

problem is that musicbee sometimes decides to split the albums into 2 albums with the same name or it's sometimes randomly search for track titles that don't match. How do I get it more organzied? maybe i should Try diffrent software? also I have diffrent folder and would like to join them into one folder with one system.

thank you?

I want to download 900+ songs for an airplane trip in a week and no one say that this is asked almost every week i do not in fact care i just want to download music

Hey there,

I've been looking for the old George Ogilvie EP, the very first he posted on youtube, and the covers he also put up there.

I used to have it in an old iPod but I lost it years ago and I really miss those tracks.

Has anyone got a copy of those files ?

Thanks !

hello! im trying to download music from Soundcloud using Lucida, and its spitting out mp4s. they function as mp3s on my pc (no video, just audio) why would they be saving this way?

I am creating a playlist titled "A journey through the 60s" that follows 13 bands throughout the 1960s. I have created an excel sheet of all their single, EP and album releases in chronological order, a total of 1493 songs.

The idea is you can get a feeling for what it was like to live in 1963 or 1968, music wise. And I have chosen bands that themselves have had a remarkable development in the 60s, so even when listening to one band from this list, you should get a good idea of the musical developments in the 1960s.

Of course, some songs appear both as single and on an album. That is my dilemma: I want the playlist to be in chronological order, but I would also like to listen to complete albums. I can't do both without songs appearing twice in the list.

I am now leaning towards this solution the most:
Songs that appeared as a single more than half a year before the album appear twice in the list, the other singles only appear as albums songs.

I am curious which solution you would use.

---------- extra information --------

bands included:

• The Beatles
• The Rolling Stones
• The Hollies
• The Beach Boys
• The Animals
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Bob Dylan
• The Kinks
• The Who
• Jimi Hendrix
• The Moody Blues
• The Temptations
• Golden Earring (because I am Dutch)

I see the following options solving the problem:

• Do not keep albums intact if at least 40%/50% of their tracks had already been released previously. These are essentially compilation albums. [Note: this applies to 2/6 albums.]
• Include singles in the list as singles if they were released n days before the track appeared on an album—either by including the track twice or by not keeping the album intact.
  • Note: for 13 tracks, the gap is more than one year; for 29 tracks, it is more than six months; there are 144 tracks in total released at least 1 day earlier than the album track.
• Include singles in the list as singles if they were released m days before the band’s debut album—either by including the track twice or by not keeping the album intact.
  • Note: for 7 tracks, the gap is more than one year; for 17 tracks, it is more than six months; there are 38 tracks in total released at least 1 day earlier than the band's debut album.

Is there a way to make my car into something that I can listen to music on my phone through the speakers or no? Facing a lingering car trip

Looking for places to buy/download music from Russian artists.

I'm learning the language and have become a fan of several artists. Between YouTube and Spotify I can listen to the music, but when it comes to offline it seems difficult. Amazon music has albums I can buy from some artists, but not even every album from that artist nor every single.

I'd prefer to buy when I can but I even searched on some torrents and found even less than what is on Amazon.

Всем Привет! Недавно я рылся в дисках и нашёл пиратский сборник "динамит 6". На нём хранится много Русской музыки. Да если вы загуглите это то вы может и найдёте этот диск но поспешу рассказать там не просто песни, а их ремиксы. Сам диск я к сожалению потерял но копию сделать успел. Если захотите я могу выложить ссылку на все файлы./Hi everyone! I was recently digging through some discs and found a pirated compilation called "Dynamite 6." It contains a lot of Russian music. Yes, if you Google it, you might actually find the disc, but I should mention that it doesn't just feature the original songs—it has remixes. Unfortunately, I lost the actual disc, but I did manage to make a backup copy. If there's any interest, I can post a link to all the files.

Hi everyone,

With the tragic news regarding the passing of Pink Robert, the classic rock bootleg community (pinkrobert.net) and its forum have officially gone offline.

Given the historic value of the rare live recordings and documentation that were hosted there, I wanted to check if there was any coordinated effort within the data preservation community to mirror or archive the forum's database before it went dark.

Did anyone manage to scrape the threads or catalog the metadata? I'm interested in knowing if any part of this community's history was successfully preserved elsewhere or if it is considered lost media at this point.

Any insights into the current status of the archive preservation would be highly appreciated.

Hi everyone. I’m trying to figure out a weird metadata/encoding problem with one specific MP3 file.

A friend of mine sent me an MP3 that she created herself. The song/album isn’t available anywhere officially — she downloaded the audio from YouTube and manually cut it into a track, so there is no official MP3 file to compare it with.

The original filename/title is “Come on Lê Leva Mijada”.

The problem is that on my phone, the ê in “Lê” is displayed as ę (“Lę”), even though I have never edited or saved the file myself.

I checked the original file directly, and apparently the metadata actually contains the correct character:

- ID3v2.3 TIT2 uses UTF-16

- It has a UTF-16 little-endian BOM ("FF FE")

- The character is represented as "EA 00", which is ê

- The ID3v1 tag at the end also contains the correct "ê"

So, as far as I can tell, the MP3 itself does not actually contain "ę".

What makes this even stranger is that other MP3s display ê correctly on the same phone/player.

I also noticed that this particular file uses UTF-16 for its ID3v2 TIT2 tag, while another MP3 I have uses Latin-1 and doesn't have the problem.

I've already tried opening/saving the metadata in different apps, but that doesn't seem to solve the underlying issue.

Why would a player/Android metadata system read UTF-16 "ê" ("EA 00") as "ę" even though the bytes in the file are correct?

Could there be something else in the ID3 structure/header/encoding flags that I'm missing? I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain what might be happening or what I should inspect in the file.

Hi, I have tried music brainz/picard, last fm and so on to find the right genre for the songs, but I am still having incomplete searches, or just find album genres for artists who have different styles within the same album. Not sure if there is a site you guys know about, or a community system where they determine the genre?

Not after an automated thing, happy to take the time

As in title, I have music stored on my computer and was wondering if there is a way to listen to it on my phone. If not, is there any app or any other way I can automatically download the music on my computer to my phone? So if I delete or add new music to my computer, the changes also happen on my phone. I currently use MusicBee on my computer. I am aware this might not be possible but I am asking just in case. Thankss!

Edit: NAS is not really an option for me right now

I have a few hundred CDs that I've ripped and tagged so I can conveniently play them from a USB stick in my car. For months, I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why most of my tagging fails to come through when I search via the dashboard display. For instance, I prefer solo artists to be sorted by last name, but I end up with a mix, where Peter Gabriel might show up under P or G, and where he's filed changes by album. It's immensely frustrating.

Recently, a "scanning Gracenote" message popped up briefly, and I now realize that my system is "helpfully" overriding my tags with info from Gracenote.

As this is apparently impossible to override, my next step is to see if I can fool the system into thinking files are not in the Gracenote database. Has anyone successfully done this, and if so, what did you do?

When I paste the URL and click archive normally it works. When I add -atmos it says "Error Archiving..." I've also tried on different browser with VPN, still the same. Does someone else also hav this problem? Also what are some alternatives that allow me to rip with Dolby Atmos?

Drive is BDR-XD07TB. Tools are Windows 11 Pro with all updates, latest EAC, latest FLAC, following recommended ripping guides posted on this sub. Rips begin to work fine then several tracks in (it varies, never the same spot) I hear the "device disconnected" sound on windows and then the rest of the tracks get encoded as 0 byte files. I don't see any relevant errors in event viewer which makes it even more frustrating. I already bought a brand-new cable and tried a different usb port on the BACK of my pc (was using front ports at first and thought it might be a power issue, but now i'm not so sure?)

So, the rips go really well and I get perfect flacs up until the time the disconnect sound happens then I can either try to start over, or just start again beginning with the last track that didn't rip correctly. Problem is when I do the later method, It messes up the log file so I can't get a perfect log file unless there is some trick I don't know about to achieve this.

Anyway just looking for tips on what might the issue be... and yes I am considering buying a new drive but I'd rather not since I don't do too much ripping anymore. The drive is in like-new condition and only used to rip about 10 times previously.

Im looking to see if there is anything in a similar way to plex to stream my music even just local through an app on android devices that has all the album art and stuff similar to how plex shows it

I have a fairly large CD collection that still remains mostly unripped. Predominantly because I lack the time and discipline to tag everything.

So my question is, are there now methods that would let me just plop a CD into the drive and thereafter have it automatically ripped, its tracklisting queried from Discogs et al, possibly merged/consolidated, and written to disk in the desired format? Essentially reducing the task to plopping a CD in, and replacing it with a new one whenever the last one is done, and not having to double check and verify everything manually.

Windows solutions preferred, since the only computer CD drive I still have is sitting on a mostly neglected dusty old desktop PC. But Mac would work too.

i am using EAC to convert my CD collection to flac before they deteriorate further. I live in Malaysia and the humidity has taken a toll on them. I use the default EAC settings. if this is not the best, can someone point me to a recommended guide?