SayCyberOnceMore

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Not tried beets (this thread only now made me aware of it), but adding a +1 for Picard

    I let it run on a huge chunk of my music and apart from a few tracks it thought should be in compilation albums, worked really well.

    After the big sift, I basically just run it on new stuff when I get it…

    Sometimes I use Puddletag to fine-tune some data.

    I find most new things I get from Bandcamp, etc are in MusicBrainz, so not much editing required… although I have spent some time over the years carefully entering some older, more obscure music.










  • Kinda already covered by others here, but my summary:

    You won’t have partitions nicely numbered from 1~3 unless you start again.

    1 - Backup

    2 - Check the backup

    3 - Boot from GParted Live (feel free to use another live distro with gparted on)

    4- Delete sda1, sda2, sda3 & sda4

    5- Move sda5 to the beginning of the drive and resize down to 512MB

    6- Slide sda6 & sda7 down next to sda5. I like to have 1MB gap between all partitions to deal with future issues (sometimes restoring a partition might nip the next one)

    7- resize /home to fill the rest of the drive

    8- redo another backup

    If you wanted, you can apply each of those steps and then reboot to check it’s all working, then you’ll gain confidence in what’s happening for the future.

    I also advise doing a health scan of your drive to check it’s SMART parameters. Something like smartmontools (with gsmartcontrol if you like a GUI). Then you’ll know if the drive’s going to die during all that data moving…