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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • I just started properly tagging new music at some point and now my library is largely tagged correctly.

    For tagging I use kid3, great KDE application for that.

    I also sort my music into a folder layout like this to know where I got it from and potentially upgrade the quality.

    MusicRaw
      - Artist1
        - Bandcamp
          - Album1
        - Tidal
          - Album2
          - Album3
        - Youtube
          - ytrip album
      - Artist2
        - Album1 (not moved to a separate source)
        - Tidal
          - Album2
          - Album3
        - ytrip album
    

    I then have a script to loudness-normalize (come fight me) all music and write it to another subfolder.
    A second script takes those normalized files and symlinks them into a structure like this:

    Music
      - Artist1
          - Album1
          - Album2
          - Album3
          - ytrip album
      - Artist2
          - Album1
          - Album2
          - ytrip album
    

    I tried switching to Picard, but for somewhat obvious reasons it doesn’t support my insane structure.










    • Hetzner: I’ve rented a dedicated server with them for years and it’s been very solid. There are reports of people getting blocked during the first sign up, but I didn’t have that problem nor any other issue since. For bulk data storage their file share offering is also unbeatable imo, I’ve also used that for years and my Nextcloud files plus acquired media still live on such a share.
    • Netcup: I have a small VPS here for monitoring, also no issues. It’s somewhat annoying that you need to take the server offline and run a media optimisation task when you delete snapshots (not sure how necessary it actually is, but you get a warning at least)

    Some anti-recommendations as well

    • Vultr: Years ago I wanted to get their very cheapest VPS offering, but that is only available sometimes in certain locations and at the time they didn’t tell you any of that before you signed up and deposited their minimum fee. I did get the money back though
    • Contabo: My previous monitoring VPS lived here. After a while they declared the VPS I was using was a “legacy” product and wanted more money to keep running it. I feel this could have been handled with a forced migration of some sort.
    • Digital Ocean: They just donated 3 million USD to a racist’s pet project financing other weird guys