MusicLibrary

I store my digital music library in a command-line friendly way. Which means that I use the song file names and their parent directories to compliment the metadata found inside the music files themselves. I'm not a fan of keeping entire albums, so the structure that I use is slighly flattened compared to most. I realize, however, that these days its much easier to download albums, so I download them and store them temporarily.

/music
    /artist 1
        /song 1
        /song 2
    /artist 2
    ...
/unsorted
    song a
    song b
    ...
/albums
    /album 1
    /album 2
    ...

My workflow consists of downloading albums, picking songs I like, and copying them into /unsorted. Cron scripts then grab these songs and, according to ID3 (or equivalent) tags, place them into the appropriate place in /music directory. Alternatively, falsely tagged song files can be placed directly into the music structure and they will automatically be tagged.

I will make public these cron scripts eventually.

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