sorting music
I have been given an external hardrive by a friend that contains about 110GB of
music. This is indeed a very nice gift as many of the bands I do not have
and/or have never heard of before.
Several problems are now presented to me. We estimate that out of his 110GB,
only around 60GB is music that I will actually add to my collection. First I
have to go through his drive and identify what exactly I do not have.
Next I have to check that the artists I do have, are not of worse quality than
his versions. Obviously if something I have is encoded at 128KB/S and his are
at 256KB/S I will replace mine with the better quality ones.
What can get tricky is the same song, with a different filename, and/or a
different encoding. Almost certainly the filename problem will arise as I
like to have no spaces in my filenames and he comes from a Windows world that
has spaces in filenames all over the place.
There seems to be just too many variables to juggle for me to look at any sort
of script to handle some of the grunt work so it looks like it will be one of
those long drawn out tasks that you pick at every evening for 20 mins or so
until months later, it is finally done :-)
On the bright side though, it is tons of fresh music for my hungry ears.
Don Marti of LinuxWorld wrote to tell me that it was indeed a bug in the CMS
that they use causing the Joey Hess article to be split into tiny pages, so it
turns out my cynicism was rather premature.