For the very few people that do still download music and other audio files, where do you keep them? Are you happy with that system; if not, what would the ideal audio file management system look like to you? Also, do you wish you could do more with those files?
Mar 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
Your files. Your account.
AT Storage keeps exact media originals in an owner-only permissioned Space, organizes them into albums. Other file types will be added soon™
The Sounds Resource
Archiving and preserving video game media since 2003!
Diffuse
A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage, in the form of a static, serverless, web application.
File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity
My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.
Web Archiving: Playback Tools - Thomas Preece
Web Archiving: Playback Tools - Below I've listed some of the tools I found to playback web archives. The two most popular tools that I found were OpenWayback and PyWb. Of the tests I
Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives
Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…
lexicons/output/playlistItemBundle.json at v4 · tokono.ma/diffuse
A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage.
beets: the music geek‘s media organizer
The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.
Music Assistant
Music Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming sources
rocksky.app/rocksky
A decentralized music tracking and discovery platform built on AT Protocol 🎵
lexicons/output/playlistItem.json at v4 · tokono.ma/diffuse
A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage.
