Choosing a program to manipulate file metadata

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Great advice Mike and I do exactly the same from my main ripping PC to my Mac (Roon server), Linux (LMS, Plex & Bubble UPNP) and my Synology which acts as the Master backup that is itself backed up to an S3 Bucket.

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Thanks Paul for clarifying and for the helpful tips re: musicbrainz standard name.

Itā€™s not exactly what I had in mind - Iā€™ll message you instead of hijacking this thread.

Cheers

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I fully agree with all you said. And RalphH is of course correct, classical music benefits from consistency in tagging and a normalised database structure.

However, every music file contains its own tags, and classical music tags ā€œin the wildā€ (which includes MusicBrainz or any other database) are, unfortunately, anything but consistent.

So out of necessity, anyone who starts to curate a larger music collection, especially a larger classical music collection, has to decide on the way certain names and tags are implemented and then ensure consistency on their own.

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I just run (mostly wired) devices Roon knows about, using my Server machine. I understand there are some arguments against that, but respectfully they do not convince me. Point here, I only have to support a single computer that has the Server and storage (Mac Mini M4, NVMe SSD). I feel I have a robust backup solution (Dropbox in my case) that has worked flawlessly for years for me, it is cheap and quite upgradable. (And I use it at work in any case.) I do not see any risk to having Roon read my music files and Dropbox back them up. Dropbox has size limits, however, but in my current thinking my library will only expand to a small number of TBs at most, so this will surely not work for some of you heavy hitters!

Anyway, backup is not the main thread here. I am continuing to soak up the conversations and desperately look forward to when will have some time to work on this, and get back to you all. Want to comment, I am fully on board that I need structure and consistency on the classical side. More later - and many thanks!

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Thanks, did not know. Made me laugh hard. How dysfunctional that the best solution by far that Apple offers is only available (natively) on Win machines.

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It is Ye Olde iTunes, hasnā€™t visibly changed in years Obviously us poor Windows users donā€™t warrant a new sparkly version :smiling_face_with_horns:

It gets updates about every 2-3 months