Part 1: Where to get your collection
Disclaimer – Taking music off of its original source may break copyright or terms of services. “A "private copy" is a copy of a track of recorded music that is made by an individual for personal use. A compilation of favourite tracks is a good example of how people typically use private copies. Canada's Copyright Act was revised in 1997 to allow consumers to copy recorded music for their own personal use. In exchange, legislators provided for a royalty to provide remuneration for private copying to the songwriters, artists, music publishers and record companies with rights in recorded music”. These fees are collected when recording media is purchased. (SOCAN)
Disclaimer – Taking music off of its original source may break copyright or terms of services. “A "private copy" is a copy of a track of recorded music that is made by an individual for personal use. A compilation of favourite tracks is a good example of how people typically use private copies. Canada's Copyright Act was revised in 1997 to allow consumers to copy recorded music for their own personal use. In exchange, legislators provided for a royalty to provide remuneration for private copying to the songwriters, artists, music publishers and record companies with rights in recorded music”. These fees are collected when recording media is purchased. (SOCAN)
- Old Media – CDs, Tapes, Records, Radio
- Apple's iTunes for music management.
- Exact Audio Copy (CD ripping)
- Audacity audio editing
- Apple's Garage Band audio editor
- Audacity tutorial on ripping analogue formats.
- New Media – Digital Stores, Youtube, Streaming Services
- Online Stores: Itunes, HMV or Google Play. ,
- Youtube is a good source of free music. Use http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ or http://www.clipconverter.cc/ to download music from it.
- Streaming Services – use Audacity to record any audio on your computer!
- Audio File Formats
- MP3 – Most common, small file size, compressed highs and lows, very compatible
- WAV – Uncompressed audio, large files
- FLAC – High Quality, Lossless compression, reasonable file size, less compatible
- AAC – compressed file, related to MP4, commonly used with Apple Devices
- AIFF – Uncompressed audio, larger file, similar to WAV
- ALAC – Apple’s lossless format, used in place of FLAC on Apple devices
- Recommend sticking to MP3 or WAV for most uses (everyday listening = MP3, Archival = WAV)
- Proper File Structure and Naming
- iTunes structure is Artist/Album/Track# Song Title.extension
- I also prefer this structure as opposed to more complex ones that include genres, years or other method of sorting built into the file structure, however it can be useful if you want to go the extra steps.
- Now the file name itself can be as long or as short as needed. Some older devices will only use the file name as a display name. so if that’s the case, you may want to name your files ArtistAlbum#Title.extension. However, if your files are properly tagged, most modern devices do not require a fancy file name.
- ID3 Tags – Metadata that is used to provide additional information about your music
- Mp3Tag is a program that can be used to add tag information
- Another program that is often used to help automate the process is MusicBrainz Picard. I haven't had a lot of success with this program.
- iTunes can also be used to update ID3 Tags, however there are some extra conversion steps if you are taking it out of the iTunes world.
- Album Art can also be added. Google searches are the best way to find the right images.
- Duplicates!
- DupeGuru can be used to find duplicate files.
- iTunes also has duplicate finding functions, and is what I prefer to use.
- Wrong File Type
- Flac Squisher is a nice simple converter from FLAC files to MP3 files.
- Storage
- Local Storage – Easiest, Uses Up lots of drive space.
- Network Storage – Share amongst lots of devices, must be connected to the network somehow
- Cloud Storage – Share amongst lots of devices, must be online
- Apps to use to listen
- Hardware
- iPod/MP3 Player, Tablet, Smart Phone
- Sonos
- TV based streaming deivces like Chromecast or Apple TV
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