the "upside" of being nearly unable to do anything (cant talk, exhausted, sore, sore, sore) has been organising everything.
every single album is tagged (artist, album, genre, etc) and has artwork embedded, plex was annoying because it wants to ignore metadata but finally got that sorted as well (trying symfonium instead of plexamp on my phone, despite my love of foobar2000, it doesnt work w plex)
all my books are correctly tagged i n calibre and all my comics/manga are in komga
tools i used fwiw:
https://ww.advancedrenamer.com/
utterly essential to bulk rename files, regex (with training wheels) makes it soooo easy,
handles more than mp3's, can do *so much* with tagging (supports extended tags) + can embed covers etc, i went through ~7000 tracks in a day
FUN FACT! plex will not read embedded webp files, use png! (it also doesn't like large album art, stick under 3000x3000)
i download flac/wav and convert to .ogg for portability (vbr "7.0" quality, i cant hear the difference between this and lossless)
given that stuff goes missing online / deleted from streaming / spotify is just fucking over artists / bandcamp brings in more money on 1 bandcamp friday for an artist than a year of streaming (which costs some artists more than its worth) etc etc etc
i maintain my own media library
its like plex for manga/books/magazines etc
i got into searching archive.org for old gaming mags while me and my gf replay some ps2 games (the original resident evils, silent hill 1-3 and others). they can be weird and misogynistic and very 90's ("re****d" is used with wild abandon) theres something utterly vibrant and alive compared to non indie games journalism, it has a chaotic "seven guys, two called paul, let loose in an office with a playstation and jolt cola"
because i live with a technomancer they set it up so i can access everything with a secure login from anywhere in the world, so no more using syncthing to transfer a lot of files when at my computer (this is easier than self-hosting FTP or similar options)
even if you just want to have a library of your stuff laid out nice, its... nice
would recommend syncthing (with syncthing tray for windows users) to have a shared folder between computers / phone or whatever (good w keepassxc)
i like to watch some vis at 2x + so having a way to download those files without being reliant on online tools is nice, can do conversions, supports different formats, embedding subtitles etc , you can give it your browser cookies to download from sites that need a login (like nebula), so far its handled everything ive thrown at it
got into downloading vids *in general* because you dont know if/when they will go away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtYEgKE1tZs was removed for a long while
@MollyNoise Quite liked FB2k when I used Windows. Finding a decent analogue on Linux has been a little bit of a task...
@barrowofdirt I rather like Strawberry on linux (the successor to clementine, the successor to amarock)
@MollyNoise It seems unmaintained. I am currently trying Audacious which is fine, except it stops me shutting down my PC without closing it fully first. :D
@barrowofdirt https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/#download ? looks fine here, idk if its a repo thing
i thought for a moment you were gonna say you use a drop down terminal w cmus or something
@MollyNoise Last time I looked it had been on 1.0.0 for a long time. Or my memory is wrong.
also, if you'd like a media player you can set up EXACTLY how you'd like (thats super light on system resources, v extendible etc) become friends with https://www.foobar2000.org/