After over 15 years of ripping and downloading, my music library just reached 20TB. AMA

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  • whipper

    Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed

  • It's a Linux app that does CD Ripping. It runs in command line and can basically be semi automatic. https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

  • picard

    A cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database. Picard organizes your music collection by updating your tags, renaming your files, and sorting them into a folder structure, exactly the way you want it.

  • Have you checked if every file is on MusicBrainz by scanning it using Picard?

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  • slskd

    A modern client-server application for the Soulseek file sharing network.

  • And, if you prefer a self hosted web app, you'll like slskd.

  • library

    70+ CLI tools to build, browse, and blend your media library. An index for your archive. (by chapmanjacobd)

  • I have a little over 2 million songs as well and I wrote my own media management system to deal with it all. I save everything as Opus so the size is relatively small but still high-quality.

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