@4CPcomics one of my acts of resistance was, first, filing all official releases in date order, and then later, mixing them in with the CDRs in date order, making no distinction between them. Now that all my CDs are stored, I do the same in digital: all live recordings have the album tag format date (XXXX.XX.XX) - venue, location. Source info is in the comment tag, official release name or shnid
@mrcompletely I would expect nothing less from Mr. Completely. I would know and remember the music/shows (on physical media) better, if the spines reinforced the important info, as cassette cases once did.
@mrcompletely@4CPcomics big same. i try to also tag each file set (even the official releases) with a ticket stub or poster or contemporaneous something-or-other. it's not as fun as making my own j-cards, but feels kinda like the same thing for me. and for me anyway, i think the act of relabeling often helps me retain/process/contextualize the info, in addition to being able to find it more easily.
@bourgwick@4CPcomics I agree the retagging is part of the mental process of assimilation. My album art process is more chaotic. I'm trying to improve it as I go.
@thesizzler@4CPcomics I keep my "regular albums" (live or studio) of all artists as one collection, and archival releases and free circulating bootlegs as a second collection. So all the Dead albums are just filed together in release order in the Gs. The same broadly holds true in the pure digital collection. Like, the live show bonus material that comes with Mars Hotel 50th will get copied to the archival live folder, retagged, and added to the live collection.
@thesizzler@4CPcomics some of it has to do with how the foobar music player interacts with my distributed storage - I've written a bunch of custom file paths to make folders that actually live in different places in the network appear to be all subdirectories of the same parent - but mostly it's what is most intuitive to my brain
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