If you check on sites like slickdeals.net, you can often find listings for ebay deals on refurbished prebuilts like this HP. It's $319 with a 5600g, 12gb ram, 256gb ssd and 1tb hdd. Source: 6 months ago

You can absolutely find a better deal than that. That hardware is quite old for the price. I'd try looking at https://reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ for the occasional prebuilt posted there, and sites like https://slickdeals.net/ have prebuilts posted as well. Source: 6 months ago

Note: If you want to pay more for better bass the Monolith 10" THX and 12" THX subs are on sale right now too-you can read the same audioholics review on both of those models. For home theatre bass matters the most, then a good center channel, then mains, then surrounds. A Speedwoofer 10S would blow you away compared to what you have and totally elevate your system immediately-the Monolith subs are more... Source: 7 months ago

I tried to post a deal on Kobra 2 Neo (what with the "singles day" 11/11 and Black Friday sales campaigns) to https://slickdeals.net/ , the deals site - only to see it deleted within a few minutes by a moderator. Source: 7 months ago

I honestly don't know if this is a bad-okay-good-great deal but I like slickdeals.net because you can read other people's comments on the particular deal and make your down decision. Not advocating, please do your own research. Source: 9 months ago

This should help substantially: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

No need to use the server, Navidrome allows any client to connect remotely (WAN included) and play music that is hosted on the server. It also can be set up to transcode on the fly uncompressed music when it is accessed from a metered connection to minimize bandwidth usage. I barely scratched its surface, but it looks promising. The only requirement is that it needs the correct metadata to identify songs and... - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

I highly recommend Musicbrainz Picard: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ It will match against the Musicbrainz database and will acoustically ID your files, so the tags can be completely wrong. Just dump folders of albums into the client, it will group and sort things and ID them. It works great. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

Have you tried https://www.funkwhale.audio/? It can be used effectively as a "private spotify". Labeling is a solved problem thanks to https://picard.musicbrainz.org/, and the fact that a lot of the music you buy these days comes pre-labeled already. You then have a web-app (and/or a mobile app, if that's your thing) where you can stream music as you would with Spotify. You can even build yourself a little... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I use picard for my collection. My work flow is Picard > Lyrics Finder > Foobar for BPM, RealGain and DR > Custom python script to pull genre and mood from Last.FM and spotify> then Advanced Renamer to perform naming clean up of folder names. I lowercase and underscore spaces. Also does files if I happen to need Mp3Tag when Picard doesn't find anything. Once this is done I move files on to may NAS. Source: 6 months ago