So here I am, sitting on a modest 200 gigs, give or take a few, of music. I'm stupidly proud of it, has I have crafted it carefully, with covers renamed as "folder.jpg", uniform filenames, ID tags REMOVED... Well, it's just my thing. I know it seems trite to brag about MP3 collections, but I'd like to hear from you others what MP3 has brought to you.
I know my collection is very varied, as I was able to try out a lot of different music. Hip-hop, old-school R&B, rock, electronica, power symphonies, guitar heroes, ska, ska-punk, punk, emo, videogame soundtracks, movie soundtracks, mashups, classical music, world folk music (my current and longest love), and so on. I basically like trying out *everything*, just not too much what passes on the radio & TV. I don't understand people who lock themselves into one group. Goths. Punks. Rastas. Wiggers... Don't they realize how much life has to offer outside of their silly prisons?
Without the MP3 format, I'd still be a dumbfuck listening to Pink Floyd only. (Even though they rock my soul to this day)
And I want it to be shared, shared, shared, in one big block, whenever I trade with friends IRL, and now I think I don't give back enough. Well maybe because I keep seeding the porn I download, but whatever. So that
As I saw on Empornium that I had uploaded roughly more than my MP3 collection, I started wondering where it would be wisest to post it. Should I seed it as a torrent? I could try and leave it up for grabs on the Kad network, but I like the fact that you can seed entire directory structures, and download what you want from a torrent. Or whatever floats your boat!
What do you think, O elders of 4chan?
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Anonymous2006-02-28 15:32 (sage)
ID tags REMOVED
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Anonymous2006-02-28 15:35
Yeah. ID3 tags suck ass and pollute a songname.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 15:39
>>3
BRITNEY SPEARS R@YGOLD QWERTY HOT TEENAGE GIRL.mp3 desu
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Anonymous2006-02-28 17:10
I want that much music :[
My 60GB HD means I can only have like 40 GB of moosick.
If you have anything like Cake or Modest Mouse, a torrent of whatever's in the same category would be greatly appreciated :)
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Anonymous2006-02-28 17:11
I want that much music :[
My 60GB HD means I can only have like 40 GB of moosick.
If you have anything like Cake or Modest Mouse, a torrent of whatever's in the same category would be greatly appreciated :)
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Anonymous2006-02-28 18:35
I've got 31 GB of music, it all fits neatly in my 40 GB iPod (37 after formatting).
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Anonymous2006-02-28 18:36
CAKE!
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Anonymous2006-02-28 18:41
I'm gonna torrent it. Thanks for your help, cock-gobbling morons.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 21:38
Torrent it? Who would want all 200GBs? Set up an FTP server or something.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 23:09
>>10
You dont need to download everything in a torrent...
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Anonymous2006-03-01 1:21
>>11
Going to be a bitch to deselect all the files you don't want out of 200 Gigs of music folders.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 3:34
>>12
Quit bitching, you're getting something for free out of somebody else's bandwidth
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Anonymous2006-03-01 6:55
FAILURE for lack of ID3 tags.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 7:20
You say removal of ID3 tags as if it were a feature.
The only thing wrong with them is not using Unicode.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 7:55
I would be interested, if it were not for the lack of ID3 tags.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 9:53
ID3 = loser's e-penor.
Seriously, tell me what ID3 is useful for. Do you REALLY need to mark down Bob Marley's genre is "Reggae" in case you forgot it?
Fucking LOSERS!
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Anonymous2006-03-01 9:58
>>17
What if you want to classfy them in a database, script something to be performed or music of some kind being selected, etc.?
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Anonymous2006-03-01 10:01 (sage)
>>17
No, I want to know these things:
* Artist
* Title
* Album
* Track number
I can store it in the filename, but that is a misuse of the filesystem, one should not rely on descriptive filenames.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 12:47
>>18
Fascist. It's music, not an army. Listen to it, that's it. Don't bind yourself to this kind of SHIT. You wanna listen to something? Click, enqueue. But who am I to disturb your 6000 year old playlist?
>>19
DIRECTORY : Artist - Album. FILES : Track Number - Title.mp3
YEAH, WHAT A BLATANT MISUSE OF THE FILESYSTEM, NAMING FILES!
I maintain my statement, ID tags are the loser's e-penor.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 12:56
>>20
Still, what would happen when you download >>4? You have no idea what that song would be without ID tags.
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Anonymous2006-03-01 16:21
>>20 Fascist. It's music, not an army.
Hilarious. I'm a fascist scripter :) .
WHAT A BLATANT MISUSE OF THE FILESYSTEM, NAMING FILES!
That's actually what I do myself. Yet I still keep ID3 tags because they are useful, and I'm a fascist.
Someone who doesn't use ID3 tags? Whoa, that's seriously fucked up.
There's a simple reason to use them: sometimes you get a renamed file. No tags? You'd better hope they're lyrics so you can hunt them down on teh intarweb. No lyrics? You're screwed.
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Anonymous2006-03-02 5:34
When I read "id tags" I thought he meant whatever the rippers add to the end of their files, like -iXnT112#00"! etc.
REMOVING ID3 IS SICK!!
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Anonymous2006-03-02 6:27
>>22
More like a dumbass. Your reply didn't prove anything.
>>24
Look, maybe ten years agor, I used to download MP3's hand by hand, and I'd also download stupidly named shit. Now, you can download full albums by the truckload on any P2P network, so what's your excuse? File's already cleanly named, so what's your use of the ID3 tag?
>>21
If you download this kind of shit, you're a dumbass and need some 9mm aspirin.
I would like to see this collection. And I don't need to write down "Pennywise is skate-punk" either. Morons.
"one should not rely on descriptive filenames"
THIS IS WHY YOU ALL FAIL AT LIFE. STOP USING COMPUTERS NOW
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Anonymous2006-03-02 8:01
>>26
You mean you never get an unusually named mp3 that you really like? It happens to me all the time.
There's a reason why internal metadata was created, you know? It wasn't because someone thought it'd be great fun to create additional redundancy.
Taking the effort to remove something that could be useful in the future, but otherwise doesn't affect you, is silly. It's not like 1KB is going to leap out and kill you. Just accept that you're doing this for purely emotional reasons and move on.
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Anonymous2006-03-02 8:04
What you gentlemen fail to realise is that ID3 tags can encode a wider range of characters than Windows filenames; of most importance: ? / and "
>>Just accept that you're doing this for purely emotional reasons and move on.
NO U
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Anonymous2006-03-02 11:00
>>26
Sounds like an emokid that doesn't like labels. Fuck organization. 4nRky RU1355555555!!!!
>>30
Windows can use Unicode filenames that include ?,/, and "
Descriptive ID3 tags are more secure than descriptive filenames, in the sense that they filenames are more easily messed with. I don't enjoy mile long folder/file names. That would be a sort of faggotry.
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Anonymous2006-03-02 11:05
>>32 Windows can use Unicode filenames that include ?,/, and "
Lies. Windows can use Unicode filenames that include FULLWIDTH ?/", but the ones in the ASCII range are still forbidden.
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Anonymous2006-03-02 18:00 (sage)
What we need are DB filesystems, and in the meantime, storing metadata in filenames or in tags are both shitty hacks and it doesn't matter which one you use.
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Anonymous2006-03-03 16:53
>>17
I actually use genre real often now that I have an iPod. It helps keep things categorized, which is always good when you have shitloads of music.
I didn't really give a shit about ID3 tags at all until I got an iPod/XBMC, anyway--correct filenames were good enough for me back then.