Music Solutions
A couple of months ago, I spent a lot of time working on a solution for handling all my music and its various uses. Namely, I wanted to keep separate track of:
- All my music (even the music I don’t listen to, so I don’t have to get rid of it)
- The music I listen to on my computer
- The music I have on my limited-space iPod
In addition, I wanted to make sure there was as little wasted disk space as possible, so I used hard links and had all the files in separate directories.
You’d think there would be a relatively simple solution, and I’d hope so too, but I came up with this really convoluted system that involved synchronizing three directories with two scripts whenever music had to be added or removed. What it results in is that I never add music anymore. And somewhere along the line, my “music on my computer” folder got messed up, so I’m back to square-one with that one. Hundreds of songs I filtered out back in the mix.
I wonder if some of my problems would be solved if I used a GUI music player, but I’m not so sure. My current setup uses MPD, which runs nice and light. Anyway, I’m out of mental energy, and am hoping someone else might have a better idea. Does anyone have any good ideas how to maintain my music? Or perhaps a better ideal to work under? Until then, I’ll just suffer under a horrible manual version where I just delete and add things at will to everything and hope I don’t miss things.
