How old is your oldest mp3

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ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

because of the way file metadata works the earliest date in my collection is 2012, but that was simply the date at which the data was salvaged after a catastrophic backup failure. I've had a continuous library since 2004

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ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

defaultluser posted:

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand

11/16/1997.

The key here folks is to look at the MODIFIED date, not the date created. That will be maintained even over multiple transfers

that gets overwrote when you modify the metadata tags though, and as I'm a turbosperg from hell this happens once every five minutes

that's why I started tagging mo-year in the category field whenever I add more to the library

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 06:02

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

behind every spotify profile is a newb who failed to back up their music collection adequately in the 2010s :twisted:

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 06:04

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

EX250 Type R posted:

I wonder if anyone can beat 11/16/97

now you're just asking for someone to use sorcery to change the tags on a file to Sid Vicious's regdate

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 06:24

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

symbolic posted:

that would require me to dig up my Rhapsody account from 2007. i don't even know if Rhapsody is still around.

i think it was either "Eat It" by Weird Al or "Smack That" by Akon

it is, actually, somehow, though I think they are more into streaming now

good choices tho

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 06:32