![]() ![]() I do keep everything tagged very cleanly with my first source being AllMusic and second being Discogs. Many years of ripping CDs, downloading music (mostly FLAC) and pulling my hair out when faced with the upkeep and processing of all the extras outside of the music itself and cover art, I nuked all the non-essential stuff. Since I don't really get into Classical nor various artists, the directory structure is pretty simple. I keep all of mine in, appropriately enough, "Music".Ġ2_New (broken out into lossless and lossy) In contrast, songs synced with Plex are only playable in the Plex app.īackup: a local backup on a second HDD (just regular Time Machine backup), and a remote backup to a NAS offsite (using Syncthing).Ī little over 1.0 TB here and just shy of 40,000 tracks, which isn't much, though I figure by putting info out there someone may pick up a nugget or two. I’m well aware of the limitations of iTunes, but I’m kind of stuck with it, since it’s the only way to sync to iPhone/iPad and be able to use the songs in other apps. For streaming, I’m now working on switching to Navidrome (one of the many subsonic-compatible servers) which scans much faster, although it doesn’t have iOS apps as good as PlexAmp or Prism and the webUI isn’t that suited for massive amounts of music.įor library management, no Excel files, just iTunes (haven’t moved to Catalina yet), with a bunch of scripts to automate various tagging actions, and do things like pull the original release years (always annoying with reissues and compilations) from discogs, rym and google. Plex: as you’ve discovered, it gets very slow, and multiple libraries are a bit annoying. No fancy filename/foldername organisation, everything tags based. Helps prevent folders from getting too big to process, makes backups easier (older years folders never change, except for updated tags), and if one drive is full you can continue the next year on another drive. Or only a single one for all your music.ĭo you keep a record of all your music as a separate document so you know what is in your mighty collection? I use a simple Excel sheet with a record of each full album in my collection for easy reference.Īnyway, I’d be interested to learn how to plan for a growing collection based on others’ experiences.īear in mind: I’m on macOS, a bit more than 200,000 songs, which is not nearly as much as some here but is still growing steadily.įilesystem organisation: Every year I create a new folder (eg “/Music/2020/Artist - Album/”), all newly acquired albums go there. How many libraries or equivalent do you use on whatever your preferred app/media server? Or is it just one humongous library?ĭo you use multiple apps (I.e Plex +Emby+ Apple Music etc?). How do you manage such a huge volume? Do you have HDs categorised by genre or years or artists ? My interest is for those who have collections of 3-10+ TB music collections: (I share on SLK too but I’m select about adding to my collection rather than seeking sheer volume, if that makes sense). My collection is something I build to be actively listened to as opposed as a collection to share on SLK or other sites which I take others do. I don’t use Swinsian to listen, but only as a sort of raw backup of all files. I also have an external HD duly backed up on which I store the entire collection with no particular categorisation on Swinsian. This allows Plex to update and scan smaller chunks of data rather than a single large library every time I add to the collection. On Plex I’ve got 10 various libraries arranged alphabetically by artist first name. I have a relatively modest 1.5tb collection. Thanks for posting.I’m wondering how those of you who have multiple TBs of music manage, store and listen to it? I have nothing bad to say about Swinsian. It take only 7 seconds to load my 3TB library and searching has no lag what so ever. It sounds great, works with airplay, and accepts any audio file that I want. Swinsian is the only program that does not crash. I have tried Amarra, Clemintine, Pure Music, Decible, iTunes, Bitperfect, ect. I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) with a 3TB external hard drive containing my music library. Automatic transcoding during device transfer.Find and replace with regex support for editing tags. ![]() Supports cue files and embedded cue information.Supports Flac, Ogg Vorbis, MP3,AAC, WMA, WAV, AC3, AIFF andAPE formats.Note that it claims to be able to stream and play protected AAC files - that's pretty amazing if true and if it is a total replacement for iTunes. Here's the general bullet points about it. Comparing it to the new iTunes 11, well, I am not at all sure where that story will land! Well, from browsing on their web site, there are some interesting things about this. ![]()
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