pudcollar
The navy calls them "dogs", picture the chocolate frozen yogurt coming out.
Not gonna listen to his songs, but I'll torrent and seed his discography for this.
If only there was some way to strengthen that group of sticks.
http://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder is a community of folks who are interested in that problem of organizing large amounts of music.
As for me, I'll download like 80 gigs of music, mostly playlists off qobuz, then match it all with albums and tag it using musicbrainz picard, then dedupe it against my collection with dupeguru, then normalize the volume using rsgain. I use Logitech Meda Server to play them. I rate songs with a star rating, with the RatingsLight LMS plugin. I listen to all my unrated songs on shuffle, rate them and put them in playlists. I'll listen to playlists based on mood, genre, country, or star rating. I have various bash scripts to process playlists.
It's really manual. If i wanted to, I could throw everything in the same playlist when i download a big tranche of music of the same type. Another neat tool is soundiiz, which enables one to move playlists between spotify, qobuz, deezer, and m3us. So you could export a playlist out of spotify, import it to qobuz, run qobuz-dl against it, and add all your new flacs to your local copy of the playlist. Soundiiz is the only thing i had to pay for, $4.
My music server's on a pcie ssd so operations don't take too long. I have a backup on a NAS and I mailed a second backup to a friend. Between me and my girlfriend we have 2tb of music.
I name files ~/Music/MyMusic/artist/album/track number - track title.flac I have playlists at the root directory with relative paths, so it's intact copying to a Digital audio player. I convert everything to Opus to fit a copy on my phone.
I pulled down about a TB of music from qobuz-dl and i'm growing over a lb of cannabis, I think it is a good idea.
I worked with Aaron Barr
He went on to be CEO of HBGary, a federal contractor. He claimed he could dox Anonymous. It didn't go well for him.
The new term is "digital audio player". http://www.reddit.com/r/digitalaudioplayer is a good community for that. mp3s are out, if you want a really small file size, opus has better quality. If quality is more important than file size, rip to FLAC. I know at least for android, there are music player apps like musicolet and poweramp that will allow you to play songs from your phone if you have the storage space. The old ones work with modern computers. You can buy reconditioned ipods on ebay, but the new ones are better IMO. For ripping music a good community is http://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder