BlastboomStrice

Hahahaha yeah, its power metal

I think I'm bad at this

I have 4 main places I put stuff:

• My 2018 external 4tb WD HDD (filled up at around ¾)

• My 1tb laptop ssd

• My 256gb phone

• My laptop's previous 2016 1tb hdd

On my external drive I put ~all of my data; my camera files, my screenshots, my phone's app data (like expenses, call logs, contacts, sms, game data, fitness logs), documents etc.

On my laptop I have some stuff which I havent synced to my external drive for around 3 years (oops), but they probably arent the most important stuff.

On my phone I have a lot of important stuff, like around ⅔ of my total camera files (I try to keep the most important ones) and my app data.

On my old laptop's 1tb hdd I keep movies/series and personal books/notebooks I have scanned. Those data dont exist anywhere else. If they get lost, especially the scanned books, it's gonna be bad, because it both took a lot of time to scan them and I have thrown away many of the physical books.

If my external drive fails, around ¼ of the data it contains might be unrecoverable. They might not be the most important files, but still it's gonna hurt a loooot.

I'm currently in the process of reorganizing my files on my laptop and my external drive for various reasons, some of them being 1) I will clear unnecessary/duplicate/temporary/etc files (which will reduce the used space) and 2) it will help me sync my files better.

In the near future I'll probably buy 500gb lifetime on filen.io (cloud storage) to keep the most important stuff, possibly another 4tb drive to mirror my current one to this and ~hopefully I'll make a nas next year to sync everything there.

It's just to expensive for me tho🫤. Filen storage is around 100€, 4tb another 100€ (or I might buy 6tb at 150€) and the nas I want to make costs around 800€...

I want to make a nas to both store and stream stuff. Like a personal home server. I'm thinking of getting 2 12tb hdds and have one of two asynchronously mirror itself onto the other (that way one of the two will be off/disconnected ~most of the time, protecting it from wear and cyber attacks (not sure of the latter will work)).

Ayy, beast in black! Saw those guys live (and barely knew them, lol). They make good music (their "beast in black" song seems to be my favourite).

Ayo, just saw this and wanna say that by downloading music from deezer it's probably appearing as if you legitimately downloaded a lot of music today. Deezer even lets you download music offline. Kinda doubt anyone can tell apart legitimate use from your use. You didnt torrent music which could theoricially raise a red flag. (I have downloaded ~3k+ songs from my home netowork without vpn with Deemix in Greece.) You should probably be fine:)

Yeah it makes sense that they dont last long enough

Wut👀 wow, thanks

Might check it soon

I was thinking something similar too:

Why almond/soy milk is more expensivs than cow milk? To make almond/soy milk you just need to maintain the plants. To make cow milk you need to have cow food, take care of the cow etc. and generally it seems much more inefficient than making plant-based milk. I dont know if they use the whole almond/soy etc to make the milk or only part of them, but still.

On this wikipedia article, under Nutrition and Sustainability, you can see for example that while Soy and oat milks have around half (almond has around ¼) the calories of cow milk (plant based milks seem to be healthier too, due to lower saturated fats and sugar contents), they are much more efficient to produce. Like, oat milk seems to be around 6-7 times more efficient to produce than cow milk which counters the fact that it may have half the calories.

Some may consider cow milk as byproduct of the meat industry, but since baby cows need to feed from it and cows already spend energy to make it, I dont think of it that much as byproduct, it's necessary.

As someone people said though, it probably is due to the financial incentives given to the cow milk industry🤷

Oh youre gonna do the big jump, good luck with that😄

PS. If you care about your spotify listening history there is a way to get your listening records in your email (takes about a month tho). And about music discovery there's Innertune (the forked version is better) which uses yt music without an account or Listenbrainz which can help you find songs and artists/bands.

You persisted despite the struggles and you made it, well done!

Ok, I did some tests:

1. For some reason, many mobile apps (like Gramophone, or Symphony which I use) cant read the tags properly.

   a) Both apps cant separate tags that use \\ as separator for some reason. Gramophone doesnt have an option to choose a tag separator. Symphony has an option, but doesnt work with \\. (To fix this you have some options; What I do is have a separate cloned compressed .opus music collection that uses ; as separator and to do this I use mp3tag and fre:ac. You can do this in the future.)

   b) Both apps in the Year tag expect to only see 4 digits (of the year). We have set deemix to store the whole date in that tag, so they fail to read it. You can either go in deemix to settings, under date format for flac files and choose YYYY (which loses accuracy) or use mp3tag and manipulate the tags so that you have both the year and the date in separate fields. Another option is to use Phonograph plus which can read properly the whole date.

   c) Apparently, no (open source) mobile app can read tags separated by \\ properly and as a result, they either combine all the tags into one (they might read the genre tags Glam Rock and Punk Rock as a single genre Glam Rock\\Punk Rock) or they read only the first of the tag (on our previous example they would read only one genre Glam Rock). I think Vlc does the latter. It's frustrating, I know...

2. As long as the .lrc file has the same name as the .flac file and they are in the same folder, the app should be able to read the lrc file as the lyrics of the flac file. (Though if there's anything wrong in the way the contents of the .lrc file are structured, it might have a hard time reading it.)

So long as I can solve this with the tagging applications, I shouldn't have to redownload everything, or?

Yes. As long as the title and the artists tags (not the filename) of the song are correct (in many cases not even these have to be correct, because there's an option to auto-scan songs with Shazam in my process), my process should be able to work without redownloading anything.

songs are listed as Unknown Year

Thats a bit weird, may I ask:

1. How do you view the metadata? Some apps may have trouble reading metadata.

2. Do you download them in flac or mp3?

3. Could you share a song so that I try to download it myself to check if this only happens to you?

I just downloaded a random song and I can see the date under the YEAR tag. Also if I right-click it on file explorer and go to details, I can see under the "date released" the date of the song.

(Btw, the genious script I use, as I have told you somewhere, fixes the dates, high very high accuracy. Im pulling the dates from genius, because deezer, spotify etc. for some reason seem to use the date they were added to the platform as the date of release and it bothered me a lot.)

genres are very scattered and inaccurate

Yeah.. Genres is probably the hardest to get it right, even after all the automation in my process, there have been times I manually edited the genres. Bandcamp is a good source of genres, so I try to draw genres from there, but still the automation fails some times and have to manually edit them with mp3tag (genious is a good source too).

In the tags section in settings you can tell deemix to download tags along with the songs. It does a rather good job as it fetches data from deezer. Is the year missing from every song? On my setup, it automatically downloads the date (or only the year) of almost all the songs I download with deemix (some obscure songs may not have a proper date). Deemix should do a good job and download around 70% (this is an abstract percentage) of the tags you may need.

Once you download the songs from deemix, you should probably not need to use deemix again.

Tagging afterwards should fix many of the missing or incorrect metadata (obsucre songs may have lower success rates). In my guide, I even have the code for a python script I made, which I use to download the dates of songs from genius (the site with the lyrics). (I think it was my first time coding in python, lol.)

PS. It's getting late, so I'll probably be off for some time.

owning my music

Thats the spirit! Lets goo