Selecting all tracks within mp3-tag froze the program for 10 seconds but it didn't crash and the export with the script worked as intended. When started without any songs loaded, mp3-tag takes up less than 10MB of RAM on my system.Īfter it was done reading the 8TB of music, that number had increased to 1,812MB of RAM used for mp3-tag alone. Opening 8TB of music took 1 hour and 21 minutes. I've split my collection into 3 sub directories, which each represent a real drive (or rather 2 drives since I have 2 backups). Which is why I used my backup hard drives, directly attached to the pc via a USB 3.0 to S-ATA adapter instead. The first test on my samba shares showed that opening that many tracks would take ages over the network. To use the script you have to load all the tracks that you want to test into mp3-tag and then "export" the songs with the script. Now to the part for which I'm insanely grateful to mp3-tag: First I tested it against some copied albums where I removed tracks to see if it would pick them up, which it did. While searching for ways to automatically detect obvious inconsistencies within albums (missing tracks, faulty track numbering) I stumbled upon an 8 year old script for mp3-tag in the forum that does just that. I recently wondered if I have missing tracks in my collection (which has grown for over 15 years to its current size of almost 670,000 tracks and 17TB). How to you deal with that? Are there any MHA groups (not in my city I guess)? Or how do you approach your symptoms? I am pretty sure not being alone with this in the crowd of music hoarders. I should just stop wasting my time looking and reaching out for new stuff but yet cannot follow. I feel this posture leading me into madness (that goes widely unnoticed by my peers & family so I could go on forever with it). I feel the joy with the possibility of listening to it (which improbabilities of rise while I am spending time with looking for new sounds) without ever doing so. I know I am sacrificing valuable listening time browsing and purchasing, but yet cannot stop with doing so, there is just too much precious stuff out there that I still do not possess and even if I know I will not have a chance to hear through it I feel a strong urge to call it my own, even if it only hibernates on a harddrive (and a backup and a backup of the backup). And this is not counting the necessary repetitions of certain recordings that I need for psychic stability.īut it gets even worse: I cannot stop looking for new music and adding the findings to the already to-big archive. This morning it hit me: I will not have enough time to go trough my archive of music not once in the rest of my life. I like to sit and listen exclusively, not being distracted by anything else disrupting the stream of musical consciousness while following the melodies and layers of sound.
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