by Nullor » Thu Jun 06, 2024 8:26 am
I'm in the same boat. I can't find the right anywhere-there-is-internet media connector. That lets you keep, unmolested, your mp3 tags.
I'm carrying 3tb of audio files. I'm not trying to defend that. I realize it's possibly probably a little unhinged. Doesn't change the fact that I have them, and I don't want to have to Sophie's Choice them into smaller wads to be able to use Media Monkey or any other local-file focused manager. How am I outpacing the technology on this?
I can't carry 3tb everywhere sanely. I've got a fold 5 phone, it only carries 1tb, if I have no apps. it doesn't have an sd card slot (while not gone, those are evaporating as of late) and even if it did, micro sd only goes to 1tb, like it did a decade ago. Connecting a usb to my phone permanently-ish as extra storage has the size maybe, but is not sane. That thing will fall out constantly, coauthor the destruction of my phone when it gets bumped while in the slot, and I have to take it out to charge quickly without sun temperature bonus heat.
Plex failed. It's the closest so far to succeeding, and i bought the lifetime pass. but recently I had a hiccup in my database, and when I rebuilt it, Plex went on a slasher-flick rampage through my carefully curated mp3 tags, because it was built on the principal that it knows media better than you, so just lay back and try to enjoy it. For video, it does know better than me. Do your thing, Mr Plex. But the layers of mechanations you have to configure, uncheck, deconstruct, or mislead to get Plex to leave your tags well enough alone are unobvious, unintuitive, mocked and discouraged. Make one mistake and it will get you.
Media Monkey leaves my tags alone, so I bought the lifetime pass. I gotta stop doing that. All the marvels and intricacies of it's user interface are only for locally stored files. Connecting to my Media Monkey library (or any remotely sourced collection) means that front page where we get to choose from big pretty buttons digging in by artist, year, genre, title... yeah delete all that. Media server is my only choice, and digging through my collection by folder structure at high speed down the interstate is all that's left. It's not Media Monkeys fault! I'm not assigning blame. Just frustration at product after product failing to meet the mail unless I prove I don't care what happens to my tags or I don't love my audio so much that I've amassed an irresponsible portion of it. One day some uber nerd in a parent's basement will read one of my manifestos and really get it, and I just hope I'm still alive at that point.
I'm in the same boat. I can't find the right anywhere-there-is-internet media connector. That lets you keep, unmolested, your mp3 tags.
I'm carrying 3tb of audio files. I'm not trying to defend that. I realize it's possibly probably a little unhinged. Doesn't change the fact that I have them, and I don't want to have to Sophie's Choice them into smaller wads to be able to use Media Monkey or any other local-file focused manager. How am I outpacing the technology on this?
I can't carry 3tb everywhere sanely. I've got a fold 5 phone, it only carries 1tb, if I have no apps. it doesn't have an sd card slot (while not gone, those are evaporating as of late) and even if it did, micro sd only goes to 1tb, like it did a decade ago. Connecting a usb to my phone permanently-ish as extra storage has the size maybe, but is not sane. That thing will fall out constantly, coauthor the destruction of my phone when it gets bumped while in the slot, and I have to take it out to charge quickly without sun temperature bonus heat.
Plex failed. It's the closest so far to succeeding, and i bought the lifetime pass. but recently I had a hiccup in my database, and when I rebuilt it, Plex went on a slasher-flick rampage through my carefully curated mp3 tags, because it was built on the principal that it knows media better than you, so just lay back and try to enjoy it. For video, it does know better than me. Do your thing, Mr Plex. But the layers of mechanations you have to configure, uncheck, deconstruct, or mislead to get Plex to leave your tags well enough alone are unobvious, unintuitive, mocked and discouraged. Make one mistake and it will get you.
Media Monkey leaves my tags alone, so I bought the lifetime pass. I gotta stop doing that. All the marvels and intricacies of it's user interface are only for locally stored files. Connecting to my Media Monkey library (or any remotely sourced collection) means that front page where we get to choose from big pretty buttons digging in by artist, year, genre, title... yeah delete all that. Media server is my only choice, and digging through my collection by folder structure at high speed down the interstate is all that's left. It's not Media Monkeys fault! I'm not assigning blame. Just frustration at product after product failing to meet the mail unless I prove I don't care what happens to my tags or I don't love my audio so much that I've amassed an irresponsible portion of it. One day some uber nerd in a parent's basement will read one of my manifestos and really get it, and I just hope I'm still alive at that point.