Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On

Re:Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On by haunter on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:44PM (#45806301)

To me that sounds like coding without version control. Sure you can do it but do you hate yourself that much?

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Re:Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On by ryandrake on Monday November 03, 2025 @08:03PM (#45806423)

I don't think so! It's been set-and-forget for years. If I find any new music I want to save, just copy it over. If I need the library somewhere outside my home, I can either VPN in or just rsync it to a USB drive. It requires next to no maintenance. Just occasional backups.

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Re:Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On by bluGill on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:31PM (#45806878)

My NAS has snapshots to I have everything. If I'm making music I'd want version control but for music someone else made I just want it unchanged.

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Re:Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On by Libidinalecon on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @07:23AM (#45810090)

Anything I was into in 2005 is so played out that I would never listen to it now. I am really the opposite of all this in that I routinely delete my entire music collection to intentionally start over. It forces me to find what is new and interesting.

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Re:Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On by officeplant on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:00AM (#45811752)

I lost a ton of indie electronic music from the early days of myspace music in a 2009 hard drive fuckup. I can't imagine doing that willingly, because I still wish I could find some of those hobby musicians again. I do occasionally trim a few gigabytes of music I don't care for anymore, but I regularly listen to most of my collection that sits around 280gb of mainly flac files.

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