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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

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  • For duplicates dupeGuru’s Music Mode should suffice (don’t be overly aggressive when batch deleting files!)

    Then tag and sort them with MusicBrainz Picard (again, take it slow. Picard is great and all but not every automated match is correct and I always check mine if they’re correct)

    After doing that start taking notes while listening to your Music in case you detect something is wrong (missed duplicate, wrong/partial metadata, etc) which allows you to fix these errors later on

    I’d also recommend you do backups along the way because dupeGurus and Picards changes can’t be undone and as a beginner you’re likely to do mistakes till your accustomed to the process

    That’s what I did and will continue to do with my 1500 songs (for now)

    I also prefer to sync my music from my PC to my phone via rsync (any sync application should suffice). But that’s just me, because imo offline playback is the way to go















  • Your first command listing the formats is “useless”, depending on what you define the best quality is. yt-dlp orders the output by it’s format selection (-f argument) which is bestvideo*+bestaudio/best by default which also gets affected by the format sorting (-S / --formart-sort). By default av1 use is discouraged over vp9 so I’d highly recommend you look into them if you really want to make sure it’ll downlad the best quality ones. In my experience the default settings are really good, except some fringe cases (for example if you’d rather download av1 encoded videos). Keep in mind though most digital stuff still runs h264/h265 for compatibility reasons

    Have fun learning and don’t forget to look over the yt-dlp ReadMe on github! It has all the information you’ll ever need and much more :)