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

• This month in digital music libraries - April 2024April 26, 2024
• This month in digital music libraries - March 2024March 27, 2024
• This month in digital music libraries - February 2024February 22, 2024
• This month in digital music libraries - January 2024January 26, 2024
• This month in digital music libraries - December 2023December 28, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - October 2023October 27, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - September 2023September 29, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - August 2023August 25, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - July 2023July 28, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - June 2023June 26, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - May 2023May 25, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - April 2023April 28, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - March 2023March 29, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - January 2023January 27, 2023
• This month in digital music libraries - November 2022November 24, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - October 2022October 27, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - September 2022September 30, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - August 2022August 25, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - July 2022July 28, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - May 2022May 26, 2022
• The ultimate guide to importing a music library to RoonMay 25, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - April 2022April 28, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - March 2022March 24, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - February 2022February 25, 2022
• How 2021 presaged Rogangate (and other learnings from last year)February 11, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - January 2022January 27, 2022
• This month in digital music libraries - December 2021December 23, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - November 2021November 24, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - October 2021October 22, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - September 2021September 22, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - August 2021August 25, 2021
• Announcing: Astiga is our new sister app!August 06, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - July 2021August 04, 2021
• No-download, no-install, dead-simple Windows 10 DLNA serverJuly 08, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - June 2021June 25, 2021
• DIY cloud music libraries are not an option in 2021June 10, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - May 2021May 28, 2021
• What does the cloud music locker graveyard mean to cloud music libraries?May 19, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - April 2021April 30, 2021
• How to install bliss in unRAID to manage your music libraryMarch 18, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - February 2021February 24, 2021
• A comparison of the best cloud music playersFebruary 10, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - January 2021January 29, 2021
• Splitting audiobooks into chapters with AI and crossed fingersJanuary 22, 2021
• Cloud music lockersJanuary 06, 2021
• This month in digital music libraries - December 2020December 21, 2020
• Repair FLAC filesDecember 09, 2020
• This month in digital music libraries - November 2020November 27, 2020
• Do I have an anti-streaming bias?November 18, 2020
• Bringing it back home: exporting your YouTube Music libraryNovember 11, 2020
• This month in digital music libraries - October 2020October 27, 2020
• Thirteen cloud storage services for musicOctober 01, 2020
• This month in digital music libraries - September 2020September 25, 2020
• Synology music packagesApril 15, 2020
• Music syncing with NextcloudApril 02, 2020
• Audiobook boxsetsFebruary 25, 2020
• Niche music streaming servicesDecember 10, 2019
• A self-hosting, music-hoarding, album-guy - I'm an online tribe intersectionNovember 18, 2019
• We Are Vinyl - a teardownMarch 26, 2019
• Off the beaten track: eight music players you might not have triedJanuary 16, 2019
• Music collection disastersJanuary 09, 2019
• Using MP3 rating tagsOctober 11, 2018
• Don't fear compressionSeptember 25, 2018
• Which lossless format?August 29, 2018
• PerspectivesAugust 22, 2018
• Windows Explorer tag editing - sometimes simple is bestJuly 03, 2018
• Cloud storage of your music is more powerful than you thinkJune 12, 2018
• Three conclusions from Munich High End 2018May 14, 2018
• Munich High End 2018May 08, 2018
• Finding and installing liner notesMay 01, 2018
• The lamentable state of disc title supportMarch 27, 2018
• Five myths of digital music collectionsMarch 06, 2018
• Maildump: Bluesound music librariesFebruary 14, 2018
• Browse different: why MinimServer stands out from the UPnP crowdJanuary 31, 2018
• A music library trilemmaNovember 29, 2017
• Maildump: Sonos music librariesNovember 21, 2017
• The growth of home NAS; is a revolution in self stored music coming?November 13, 2017
• Setting Various/Various Artists namesOctober 25, 2017
• Your music library and music players are separateSeptember 05, 2017
• Converting music libraries on MacOSAugust 29, 2017
• Forcing iTunes to rescan tags in your libraryAugust 15, 2017
• Re-ordering 'The' in artist names - a custom ruleJuly 04, 2017
• The great big, no-nonsense, mostly free audio converter matrixJune 20, 2017
• Changing permissionsJune 06, 2017
• 'Different' doesn't mean incorrectMay 23, 2017
• Munich High End 2017May 17, 2017
• What is bit rot?April 18, 2017
• Spring cleaning your music filesMarch 21, 2017
• Perfect Music Library Management for Internet Radio DJsFebruary 28, 2017
• The only thing worse than no automationJanuary 03, 2017
• Finding and moving corrupt FLACs in WindowsDecember 06, 2016
• "The dark side", or, the limitations of walled gardensSeptember 13, 2016
• Gold!July 12, 2016
• 'What about Metadata' - a video primerJuly 05, 2016
• Ford SYNC album artJune 28, 2016
• Why bother with file structure at all?May 03, 2016
• What's a music tagging scheme?April 20, 2016
• What's a music file container format?April 06, 2016
• DSD versus DSF versus DFF. What does this mean for audio libraries?March 15, 2016
• Music players that support WAV tagsFebruary 16, 2016
• AURALiC Aries album artJanuary 26, 2016
• Three ways to invest in your music collectionNovember 03, 2015
• Beyond your music player: five essential tools for your computer audio libraryOctober 27, 2015
• Three causes of tag scheme inconsistencyOctober 14, 2015
• What's the best album artwork filename?September 23, 2015
• Finding and fixing Simple Audio album coversAugust 25, 2015
• Album by album, country by countryJuly 14, 2015
• Bluesound cover artJune 29, 2015
• Cambridge Audio 851N and CXN album art - finding and fixingJune 10, 2015
• Off to Munich High EndMay 12, 2015
• Dot underscore music filesMay 05, 2015
• Two ways to auto tagApril 14, 2015
• Lossless streaming versus lossless audioApril 07, 2015
• Test FLACs for corruptionMarch 31, 2015
• Auditing your music collectionMarch 11, 2015
• From the mailbag: separating 16 and 24 bit filesJanuary 06, 2015
• Three ways to rescan Logitech Media Server, and one way to avoid it!December 16, 2014
• Three reasons album artwork remains importantDecember 02, 2014
• Why I'm a streaming ludditeOctober 14, 2014
• Murfie metadata - Murfie responds!October 07, 2014
• Testing Murfie metadataSeptember 30, 2014
• Songs of Innocence - what it tells us about music 'ownership'September 16, 2014
• Installing VortexBox 2.3 on KVMJune 03, 2014
• Whatever happened to SlimServer?April 23, 2014
• VortexBox 2.3 releasedApril 15, 2014
• From the mailbag: professional CD rippingApril 01, 2014
• Anatomy of a Bleep downloadMarch 04, 2014
• Tagging mashupsFebruary 18, 2014
• Four reasons iTunes is crap (for music collectors)December 10, 2013
• Balancing purism with practicalityNovember 26, 2013
• Back to basics: three reasons to use rules to organize your music collectionNovember 20, 2013
• Four strategies to resolve duplicate music filesOctober 22, 2013
• Streamlining Windows to VortexBox connectionsOctober 15, 2013
• Tagging VortexBox music files using MP3TagOctober 09, 2013
• Thoughts on tagging audiobooksOctober 01, 2013
• Four reasons for using FLACs, and one reason you shouldn'tSeptember 17, 2013
• Audio file formats: a comparisonAugust 27, 2013
• Mind your FLAC ALBUMARTISTsAugust 13, 2013
• Creating mixtapes from computer audio filesJuly 17, 2013
• A new version of flacJune 11, 2013
• Managing multiple music librariesMay 14, 2013
• Organising podcastsApril 16, 2013
• Using Picard to tag MusicBrainz IDsMarch 26, 2013
• There's value in curationFebruary 27, 2013
• Music Library Management Chapter Four: SecuringJanuary 15, 2013
• Music Library Management Chapter Three: Organising - album artworkJanuary 03, 2013
• Music Library Management Chapter Three: Organising - tagsDecember 11, 2012
• MinimalismNovember 13, 2012
• Music Library Management Chapter Three: Organising - files and foldersNovember 06, 2012
• MP3 repair: fixing your corrupt MP3sOctober 16, 2012
• Music Library Management Chapter Two: StoringOctober 02, 2012
• Music Library Management Chapter One: ProcuringSeptember 17, 2012
• Large music collections: form follows functionSeptember 11, 2012
• Introducing: the Music Library Management e-book!September 04, 2012
• What is audio fingerprinting?August 21, 2012
• Do duplicate tracks matter?August 07, 2012
• Five factors to consider regarding canonicalisationJune 06, 2012
• Music data pipelinesMay 01, 2012
• Why I still buy CDs (and why that might be changing soon)February 14, 2012
• When the call comes: ways of bulk ripping a CD collectionNovember 06, 2011
• Computer audio files: structural imbalancesOctober 23, 2011
• Starting over again: how would you rebuild your music library?October 07, 2011
• The big re-ripAugust 26, 2011
• Music backup tools and techniquesAugust 07, 2011
• iCloud: what does 'free' buy a music collector?July 29, 2011
• What's a home music network?July 01, 2011
• Fix your music, then keep it fixedJune 11, 2011
• Digital gapless albumsMay 17, 2011
• The MP3 commandments: Know thy music playerMay 01, 2011
• CD ripping workflowJanuary 11, 2011
• Your music: in the cloud or on your hard disk?January 04, 2011
• Online music information databasesDecember 18, 2010
• Think release, not albumDecember 07, 2010
• The two approaches to organising music automaticallyNovember 21, 2010
• MP3 volume - using Replay Gain to normalise digital music volumeNovember 03, 2010
• Why you should rip CDs to lossless audio formatsOctober 25, 2010
• How digital music becomes disorganisedOctober 22, 2010
• Why organising a large music collection is a little like gardeningOctober 02, 2010
• Easy FLAC to MP3 mirroring with mp3fsMay 17, 2010
• Automatic digital music workflow with VortexBox - (part three) ripping, tagging and album artApril 13, 2010
• Automatic digital music workflow with VortexBox - (part two) integrationMarch 30, 2010
• Automatic digital music workflow with VortexBox - (part one) installationMarch 23, 2010
• MusicDNA and iTunesLP - won't someone think about consistency?February 09, 2010
• Rules: a new approach to music library managementAugust 18, 2009