Managing offline music library

[CitricScion]

How do you do it? I ask because that's not something I currently do, but I am curious. There are a few albums that I would love to keep copies of because it's music that means a lot to me, but I don't want to have random music files all over the place and I don't know if there's a better way to manage it on my computer or on my phone for when I want to play it.

Bonus points if you have solutions for Linux desktops, but I think sharing how you organize your library on whatever system will be helpful for somebody!

[rejectconvenience]

Calling upon @kamp for his sage wisdom of music library management

For me, it's been an ongoing nightmare, and I wish I had a better way of doing it. I've been writing scripts and all kinds of stuff, but it's gotten out of hand. I mainly have been using an old version of macOS to manage everything, since I use the iPods, but I have started playing around with Plex's music features.

[CitricScion]

I hadn't even considered Plex for this. I thought it was just a front end to give you like a Netflix UI for watching your own copies of content. That is interesting to consider.

[Stefen_Maxwell]

Calling upon @kamp for his sage wisdom of music library management

For me, it's been an ongoing nightmare, and I wish I had a better way of doing it. I've been writing scripts and all kinds of stuff, but it's gotten out of hand. I mainly have been using an old version of macOS to manage everything, since I use the iPods, but I have started playing around with Plex's music features.

I found an old program for linux called gtkpod that allows you to add music and podcasts to your ipod. I have been using that.