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Swinsian for apple instal2/28/2024 ![]() Managing metadata: For example, I've some CDs that were ripped as "TALKING HEADS", others as "Talking Heads". Scanning the CD album art which I've done for some rarer albums in which I could not find artwork for online (or what I did find was blurry and over compressed) Or often there are multiple matches and I have to find the right one. Also I have no shortage of CDs with incorrect metadata in the CD databases or don't exist in the CD databases. Ripping CDs, then moving files over to the main dataset takes time, not a lot but it is a thing. ![]() And Koel is great but, if I ever decide to move to another utility I'll probably lose playlists or have to convert them over. But I like the ability to have them offline as well. I also manage a Koel instance so I can stream the files from wherever I want. As I add new songs to the main dataset, I'll have to sync them over to the phone. I recently copied my library onto an SD card for a new phone, which had a new media player, which then had to re-index them all. There is a non-zero amount of "care and feeding" that goes into it. ![]() Spotify is no better as my songs in their library have disappeared a couple of times as well. That got me thinking - Is there a reliable paid service where I could just upload MY music I legally purchased and they wouldn't be deleted just because of some stupid location based licensing or some other reason? I tried it a couple of times and this was still the result.Īpparently some songs aren't licensed for my location/country and/or aren't available in the catalog of Apple music for my country and therefore they were all deleted except the ones that Apple already has in their catalog. In just an hour, iTunes Match (a feature of the paid Apple Music subscription) tried to match the songs and deleted almost all of them and just left 3 songs in my playlist. I also have the paid Apple Music subscription which I pay for monthly. I was very happy and saw to it that all the audio files were uploaded. I purchased a bunch of audio CDs and Apple Music (the Mac app) offered to rip it and save it into my iCloud library.
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