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p_sando t1_j1ml2kk wrote

Reply to comment by Old_Sun_Blue in The only Apple product I've ever owned. I got it for Christmas in 2009 and it still does the job! by probablyborednh

That’s why you gotta spend five hundred hours a year compulsively updating the metadata and album artwork in your library.

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mafi23 t1_j1mmbhz wrote

Omg I forgot about the work put in to get album artwork. Kids these days will literally never know.

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Legitimate_Street_85 t1_j1mmrt4 wrote

I feel like it almost a hobby. 30 to 60min a night I bet spent working on it hahaha

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Hinote21 t1_j1o1tzs wrote

Only an hour? You must have had high speed internet. Dial up make everything take so much longer

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Eternityislong t1_j1q5lhz wrote

I got a good sense of things like brand standards from doing this. Each album had to be set up an exact way. I’d see my friends with iPods full of “Track 07s,” then feel immense satisfaction when my library looked like I bought it all from iTunes

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kuddlesworth9419 t1_j1tp98y wrote

I still maintain my collection. I didn't think anyone would understand the amount of work that goes into keeping a digital music collection organised.

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Norwest t1_j1oxg6c wrote

Once paying their own bills they will also be dropping $10+ every month on music, even if they don't listen to anything for that month.

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Shermgerm666 t1_j1p2zgx wrote

Thank you for reminding me. It was so satisfying tho. Those really were the good days!

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formulated t1_j1pgsjv wrote

I remember doing that.. it was like a part time job.

Still something to do while already typing away on MSN Messenger or mIRC.. while batch updating album art, track numbers, fixing typos on limewire downloads and piecing together albums from random tracks at barely dialup speed. Just for Winamp and sharing some MP3 discs.

It was like data entry gamification. Ended up running sound systems for bars I managed and working as a DJ for years, so it could've been worse.

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edcculus t1_j1o7xmh wrote

Yep, and if you downloaded live Dead and Phish shows like I did, spending hours just adding the metadata to every track.

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