Home Media Archiving thread - building funboxes

[Pargon]

This is a thread for people building/maintaining NAS/other media servers for their home use. Our ethical rights as consumers are to be able to access the content we purchased, in any form, at any time. If I want to watch Mr. Robot on my phone on the other side of the world from a happy box in my house I want to be able to do that so here I am.

I've been compiling the data for mine in drips since January and the hardware I needed for the server went on sale to the point that I needed to jump before I finished cataloguing (but the actual data duplication was done or so I fucking thought) so now I'm stuck working on metadata for the back third of my TV collection before I can add it. And that's saying nothing about the movies.

Or the animated shows


Right now I'm struggling with the fact that I fucked up the encoding on like three seasons of a show and I think it has something to do with these particular isos having six hundred fucking chapters:

fuck off, this is a single disc with four fucking episodes on it

this is a surprisingly difficult thing to retard my way through, come and commiserate or laugh at my shit, or post how you like to format your filenames so it hits your autistic gspot

 

[Pee Cola]

post how you like to format your filenames so it hits your autistic gspot

I have a particularly autistic way of storing music files, though it's the folders where most of the autism lies.

Spoiler: get your puzzle pieces ready

For music by one artist, I like my folders/files set up this way:
music/
├─ artist/
│ ├─ albums/
│ │ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] Artist - Album Title/
│ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
│ ├─ bootlegs/
│ │ ├─ BootlegYear [BOOTLEG] Artist - date location/
│ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
│ ├─ eps/
│ │ ├─ EPYear [Catalog#] Artist - EP Title/
│ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
│ ├─ singles/
│ │ ├─ SingleYear [Catalog#] Artist - EP Title/
│ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension

Various artists:
music/
├─ VA/
│ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] VA - Album Title/
│ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title [SongYear].extension

Soundtracks:
music/
├─ OST/
│ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] Artist/VA* - Album Title OST/
│ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title [SongYear].extension
(*) depending on whether OST is performed by one artist or various artists

Some of my music is bundled up into collections based on genre, record label, source etc:
music/
├─ collections/
│ ├─ collection name/
│ │ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] Artist/VA* - Album Title/
│ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
(*) depending on whether album features one artist or various artists

Some collections might go 2 or 3 folders deep. For example, I'm a library music tragic who enjoys a whole bunch of different labels.
music/
├─ collections/
│ ├─ library music/
│ │ ├─ Bruton/
│ │ │ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] Artist/VA* - Album Title/
│ │ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
│ │ ├─ De Wolfe/
│ │ │ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] Artist/VA* - Album Title/
│ │ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
│ │ ├─ KPM/
│ │ │ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] Artist/VA* - Album Title/
│ │ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
│ │ ├─ KPM Green Label/
│ │ │ ├─ AlbumYear [Catalog#] Artist/VA* - Album Title/
│ │ │ │ ├─ Track#. Artist - Song Title.extension
etc.
(*) depending on whether performed by one artist or various artists

I originally set up this structure to make searching for stuff easier for other Soulseek users. A lot of hardcore file sharers on there have similar folder structures for their shares.

There's some room to refine this system further, perhaps by genre (which can be a bit tricky given that some artists don't sit withing one genre), splitting compilations into eras and/or genres, or maybe by country of origin. I have a lot of world music in my collection, and sometimes I feel like listening to music from a specific country or continent, but can't think of any artists off the top of my head.

(yes, I could use software like Foobar2000 or MusicBee to manage this stuff, but that doesn't address the underlying folder structure)

With over 300k tracks (and counting), I'm resigned to the fact I may never get around to doing this with every single album / collection / track.

 

[Pargon]

With 300k tracks in my collection (and counting), I'm resigned to the fact I may never get around to doing this with every single album / collection / track.

I can only respect that level of categorization. Only a very certain () kind of person can experience soulsoothing from something like that but I am one of them.

Also I dunno about you but getting stoned as hell and spending 2 or 3 hours on a Sunday just listening as you sit around and sort sounds genuinely relaxing.

 

[Pee Cola]

I dunno about you but getting stoned as hell and spending 2 or 3 hours on a Sunday just listening as you sit around and sort sounds genuinely relaxing.

Oddly enough, it is. Sometimes I'll do this on a rainy afternoon or a Saturday night, the latter with a couple glasses of red wine or a dram of single malt keeping me company.

 

[PovertySprocket]

My broke ass built a NAS out of some ancient socket 775 hardware. It runs Debian with a SAMBA share configured. Speed over Gigabit Ethernet is good, WiFi is atrocious as expected.

The only thing I haven't gotten to work with it is a Roku Smart TV.

 

[Miller]

Right now I'm struggling with the fact that I fucked up the encoding on like three seasons of a show and I think it has something to do with these particular isos having six hundred fucking chapters:

fuck off, this is a single disc with four fucking episodes on it

I unironically rip the blurays/DVDs and use Handbrake to make the episodes individually with the audio and subtitles that I need.

 

[Amanda Byrnes]

Lately I have been obsessed with organizing all my music, shows, and movies--which means re-ripping all my DVDs and CDs, so I completely understand the autistic way of sorting everything, it can get addicting at times.