Recently, I've been listening to more music, going to more concerts, and building up a music collection. How do you all organize/store/listen your music? I can't hear the difference between audio files above 256kbps, how do you guys with similar ears store your music? Do you listen using iTunes, cmus, or something in between? How do you manage album art (if any)?
Ask HN: How do you handle your music collection?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you handle your music collection?
#2I exclusively stream music on demand from the Internet these days, primarily from Spotify.
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#3i use rhythmbox; neat, easy to use and familiar [since it's inspired by Apple iTunes]
quality: if you want to take your music to the next level, i recommend getting a good set of headphones AND using flac format instead of mp3
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#4I use iTunes Match so that my music collection is available on all my devices without taking up any disk space.
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#5The good, old-fashioned way:
I store my music on my hard drive (lots of gigs), and using MusicBee for playback and management. Awesome audio player! I am a huge music enthusiast and if a release doesn't come with album art, I download the picture from the net and put it in the metadata.
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#6One day I got a cheap-ish NAS then used beets [1] to organise and copy all the music on my computer to it, listening to it with Banshee[2] over the network.
Then I got Spotify and don't bother much with it anymore...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee_%28media_player%29
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#7Album art is an image file which goes in the folder for the album. Then I sort my files into Genre\Album folder structure. I play it with Winamp. I also put it all in Winamp's Music Library.
I store my music as flac files when available. I don't claim to be able to hear the difference between that and a good quality mp3 file. It is mostly to give me options in the future.
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#8I'm an album person, not a singles person, so I manage things by folder: Genre\Artist\Album. I then tag appropriately. To play an album, I just browse to the folder and play the folder. I keep a folder called "New Music" that I put all incoming/new albums in (so that it is New Music\Artist\Album) - about once a quarter or so, I'll move things out of that folder into the appropriate Genre folder. I'd hate it to be more complex than this.
I don't need my music to be "instantly available on all devices" - I have probably 2,500 albums that I've bought/digitized through the years. I can't listen to that much - I like listening to 1-5 albums per week on rotation/repeat.
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#9I use Subsonic, perfect for my needs.
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#10I use Subsonic, perfect for my needs. http://subsonic.org/
i tried to install (version 4.9) it on my machine (Ubuntu 13.10) and i got 'The package is of bad quality', is it still maintained?