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I'm Dan, the founder and programmer of bliss. I write bliss to solve my own problems with my digital music collection.

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Greatest Hits

• Why you should rip CDs to lossless
• Rules: a new approach to music library management
• What's a music tagger?
• Automatic digital music workflow with VortexBox
• How to use 'Album Artist'

Categories

• album art (30)
• bliss (100)
• classical (3)
• community (5)
• compilations (3)
• digital music (27)
• files and folders (9)
• genre (6)
• hardware (4)
• home server (3)
• multi disc (3)
• music (1)
• reviews (3)
• tags (17)

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Category: digital music

This category contains general posts about managing, organising and enjoying digital music.

Digital music greatest hits

• Why you should rip CDs to lossless audio formatsOCT 25 2010
• Rules: a new approach to music library managementAUG 18 2009
• Digital gapless albumsMAY 17 2011

All posts about digital music

• Music data pipelinesMAY 01 2012
• Why I still buy CDs (and why that might be changing soon)FEB 14 2012
• When the call comes: ways of bulk ripping a CD collectionNOV 06 2011
• Computer audio files: structural imbalancesOCT 23 2011
• Starting over again: how would you rebuild your music library?OCT 07 2011
• The big re-ripAUG 26 2011
• Music backup tools and techniquesAUG 07 2011
• iCloud: what does 'free' buy a music collector?JUL 29 2011
• What's a home music network?JUL 01 2011
• Fix your music, then keep it fixedJUN 11 2011
• Digital gapless albumsMAY 17 2011
• The MP3 commandments: Know thy music playerMAY 01 2011
• CD ripping workflowJAN 11 2011
• Your music: in the cloud or on your hard disk?JAN 04 2011
• Online music information databasesDEC 18 2010
• Think release, not albumDEC 07 2010
• The two approaches to organising music automaticallyNOV 21 2010
• MP3 volume - using Replay Gain to normalise digital music volumeNOV 03 2010
• Why you should rip CDs to lossless audio formatsOCT 25 2010
• How digital music becomes disorganisedOCT 22 2010
• Why organising a large music collection is a little like gardeningOCT 02 2010
• Easy FLAC to MP3 mirroring with mp3fsMAY 17 2010
• Automatic digital music workflow with VortexBox - (part three) ripping, tagging and album artAPR 13 2010
• Automatic digital music workflow with VortexBox - (part two) integrationMAR 30 2010
• Automatic digital music workflow with VortexBox - (part one) installationMAR 23 2010
• MusicDNA and iTunesLP - won't someone think about consistency?FEB 09 2010
• Rules: a new approach to music library managementAUG 18 2009