I’ve decided to reorganize my music folder. It was a mess of various stuff I had ripped at one time or another, usually when taking music to the office, using a variety of tools and depending on both CDDB and Freedb. Both sometimes have lousy meta data quality for a perfectionist. I want titles capitalized. I want the compilation flag set when possible. I want the genre to be correct according to my ecclectic taste. No, Trip-Hop is not “Alternative & Punk” and Raï is not “Ethnic” and Bachata is not “Latin”.
I’ve decided to stick to iTunes for the moment because that makes playing the music on my stereo in the living room really easy. I’m moving my files to a single external drive, which I will then backup to a second drive. No splitting of music library across systems and folders without a real backup plan.
So now I’m slowly moving one folder after another into iTunes, fixing meta data as I go.
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