Post #4617091 · Elektrine

@Pomal@sh.itjust.works

2026-09-04 11:20 UTC

Struck Gold (mp3s) Hey all, I just happened upon a trove (~100gb) of MP3s from when I was a sweaty teenager with a DSL line and a 5-disc ripper. Anyone have recommendations on OSS toolsuites to begin indexing/sorting out the files? Everything apparently got flat dumped from a directory structure to a file. There’s metadata in about 90% of the content - ~10k songs to sort through shouldn’t be too rough with hashing. I’d be more than willing to seed once everything is in a happy place, there’s probably a few hundred studio cuts of songs that haven’t seen the light of day yet.

Replies (7)

@badlotus@discuss.online 2026-09-04 11:36

Sounds like a good task for MusicBrainz Picardpicard.musicbrainz.org

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@CoffeeBreaker@piefed.social 2026-09-04 11:59

If you don’t have trouble using the terminal, I’d recommend Beets.

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@unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2026-09-04 12:30

You’re saying each mp3 is ~10MB? That’s probably 320Kbps quality, so should be at least better than topical 128Kbps. My maths: 10,000,000B ÷ 240 seconds song = 41,666B(yte). 41,666B × 8(bit) = ~333,333b 333,333b ÷ 1,024 = 325bps (thinking kibibit vs kilobit depending on your IS) (again, rough numbers)

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@TwilightKiddy@scribe.disroot.org 2026-09-04 12:18

Picard mentioned in the other comment is great. If you want a more manual approach, on a Linux machine you can use `exiftool` to extract the metadata and then use that information to do whatever, e.g. organise them by folders. ::: spoiler A bit long code block ```bash $ exiftool -j 救世主.ogg [{ "SourceFile": "救世主.ogg", "FileName": "救世主.ogg", "FileSize": "3.4 MB", "FileType": "OPUS", "FileTypeExtension": "opus", "MIMEType": "audio/ogg", "OpusVersion": 1, "AudioChannels": 2, "SampleRate": 48000, "OutputGain": 1, "Vendor": "Lavf60.9.100", "PictureType": "Front Cover", "PictureMIMEType": "image/jpeg", "PictureDescription": "", "PictureWidth": 0, "PictureHeight": 0, "PictureBitsPerPixel": 0, "PictureIndexedColors": 0, "PictureLength": 102126, "Picture": "(Binary data 102126 bytes, use -b option to extract)", "Totaldiscs": 1, "Genre": "J-POP", "Encoder": "Lavf60.9.100", "Releasetype": "single", "Album": "救世主", "Language": "jpn", "Date": "2023-05-07", "Title": "救世主", "Totaltracks": 1, "Artist": "月詠み", "Duration": "00:03:20.868000000", "TrackNumber": 1, "Tracktotal": 1, "Disctotal": 1 }] ``` :::

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@upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-04 12:40

Have you tried strawberry music player? Has some pretty decent tools to get music files organized.

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@ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 2026-09-04 20:29

Music isn’t torrents in 2026. We’re all on Soulseek. You could certainly start there but make sure it’s tagged well.

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@StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-04 23:31

Picard can help you sort through most of it. It can identify most things even without tags. Just be careful and check everything it wants to do before letting it do its thing.

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