• @dumbass@leminal.space
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    467 months ago

    Screw limewire, soulseek is the way, an endless sea of perfectly organised music libraries, you’ll find what you want and stuff you didn’t know you needed.

    • @7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      77 months ago

      Thanks for this. I’d not heard of soulseek. I’m an *arr person with Usenet. It’ll be nice to see if I can find some rare / missing items.

      • Jamyang
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        97 months ago

        I am a mildly net savvy person who only knows about torrents and file sharing. Can you point me to resources where I can learn more about Usenet? Also, what client and service do you use to access it? Thanks in advance.

        • @Scrollone@feddit.it
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          107 months ago

          Unfortunately, R#ddit is still a great resource for that. Check out the /r/Piracy wiki.

          To summarize, Usenet is made up by servers that host all the “newsgroups”, but nowadays newsgroups are used to share files (like email attachments).

          You don’t need to know anything about Usenet itself, the things you need are three:

          • an indexer (they let you find nzb files, like torrent files)
          • a Usenet server subscription (where files are actually stored)
          • a client to download from that server (nzbget and SABnzbd are the two most used)

          Good luck!

        • @7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          27 months ago

          Trashguides is a good place for the arr applications.

          Tldr you’ll need a hoster, newshosting is what I use And an indexer drunkenslug is one I use. I have 6. Lol

          Indexer is the search that points to the files hosted on the hoster.

          Good luck!

    • kamen
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      77 months ago

      The problem is when they’re perfectly organised in a different manner from what you expect :D

      • @Emerald@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I organize them into

        Source (Bandcamp, Deezer, etc) --> Artist - Album --> Files

        It’s easy to navigate and makes handling multiple versions of the same album easy because they are seperated into source folders.

        • kamen
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          17 months ago

          For the files themselves lately I’ve been doing something like Country of Origin/Artist/Original Year - Album (Catalogue Number) (Release Year)/ (used to do it without the country, but at one point they became way too many, and I don’t really like organising by letter or whatever). I love foobar2000 with Facets because of the fact that you can shove any arbitrary tag into the files and then have columns show it (I’m doing that with the countries for example), but I’m now suffering a bit because of that habit - I started also self hosting my library and Navidrome that I’m using doesn’t like just any tags that you throw at it (it especially doesn’t like it if you have multiple releases of the same album that have come out in the same year).

            • kamen
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              17 months ago

              My view is that not having separate artist folders is wild, but hey, whatever works for you.

              All in all however specific folder structure is not terribly important to me; what’s important is that the tags are in order and that I can make the app I’m using present the stuff in the manner that I want.

              • @Emerald@lemmy.world
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                17 months ago

                Do you share music on p2p services or do you just have a personal collection? The reason people don’t like seperate artist folder is because when sharing the folder it won’t include the artist name.

                • kamen
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                  27 months ago

                  I do, but shush, don’t tell anyone! Still, nobody has complained about that so far.

      • @Reawake9179
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        27 months ago

        Perfectly organizing in 50 different ways has a name too

        • kamen
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          27 months ago

          Now I’m sad that it already has a name - I don’t get to name my diagnosis.

          /s