Music

Karthik's music library exports, playlists, and Plex Music Library management.

Contents

• apple-music-playlists.md - Full export of all Apple Music playlists with track details (Artist, Song, Album, Duration)
• reorganize.sh / reorganize-part2.sh - Scripts used for the 2026-03-29 Plex library cleanup

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Plex Music Library

Server

• Host: karthik@192.168.0.2
• SSH: TERM=xterm-256color ssh karthik@192.168.0.2
• Library path: ~/Music/Library/
• Size: ~33 GB, ~177 artist folders
• Format mix: FLAC, M4A (Apple Music purchases), MP3

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Folder Structure Convention

Plex expects: Library/Artist/Album/track.ext

Music/Library/
├── A.R. Rahman/
│   ├── Bombay/
│   ├── Kadhal Desam (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)/
│   └── ...
├── Coldplay/
│   └── Music of the Spheres/
├── Compilations/          ← Multi-artist Tamil soundtracks + compilations (Plex-recognized)
├── Various Artists/       ← Western soundtracks, VA compilations
├── Focus Mode/            ← Playlist-style collection (not a real artist)
└── _Unsorted/             ← Albums with unidentified artists

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Rules (Non-Negotiable)

1. NEVER delete any file or song. Move to _Archived/ or _Unsorted/ instead.
2. Folder names must NOT contain quality tags like [FLAC], [16Bit-44.1kHz], (FLAC 96-24).
3. Folder names must NOT contain piracy site watermarks.
4. Top-level folders = Artist names only. Albums go inside artist folders.
5. Soundtrack albums go under their music director (Tamil) or Various Artists/ (Western).
6. Compilations/ is reserved for multi-artist albums (Plex convention).

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Reorganization History

2026-03-29 — Full Cleanup

What was done:

Action	Details
Albums moved to correct artists	Lady Gaga/The Cure, AWOLNATION/Megalithic Symphony, for KING & COUNTRY/Burn The Ships, Calvin Harris/Sweet Nothing + Funk Wav Bounces, NF/The Search + Perception, Swedish House Mafia/Paradise Again, Labrinth/Ends & Begins, USHER/Versus, X Ambassadors/VHS, The Roots/How I Got Over, LSD/..., Govind Vasantha/Taramani
Soundtracks consolidated	3x Transformers, Creed II, Southpaw, Lincoln Lawyer → Various Artists/
VA compilations cleaned	VA_ MoS The Annual [UK] → Various Artists/Ministry of Sound - The Annual, stripped quality tags from V.A. compilation
Piracy tags removed	TamilStyleZ.Net/Anbe Aaruyire → A.R. Rahman/, Run [Tamil] → Vidyasagar/
Cast-list folder fixed	Rajinikanth cast-list folder → A.R. Rahman/Baba (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist name typo fixed	Charlie XCX → Charli XCX
Misplaced album fixed	Gnarls Barkley/Imagine Dragons - Roots → Imagine Dragons/Roots
Purchased Music merged	28 artist subfolders merged into main library; Harris Jeyaraj → Harris Jayaraj, Sam C.S_ → Sam C.S.; duplicates deleted after merge
Quality tags stripped	Glass Animals Dreamland FLAC tag removed, Taramani FLAC tag removed
New artists created	AWOLNATION, Calvin Harris, NF, Labrinth, X Ambassadors, The Roots, LSD, Martin Garrix, Shawn Mendes, James Arthur, Pritam, Sam C.S., for KING & COUNTRY
Loose files wrapped	10 artist folders with loose files → wrapped in Singles/ subfolder
Unknown Artist identified	Unknown Artist/Unknown Album → Harris Jayaraj/Anniyan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Transformers cleanup	Removed .cue/.log ripping metadata from Transformers soundtrack folders
Duplicate removed	Compilations/Azagiya Tamilmagan removed (kept under A.R. Rahman/)
Videos removed	The Script/Unknown Album (contained .m4v video files, not audio)
Unsorted deleted	_Unsorted/No Name (2018) — unidentifiable single FLAC

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Known Issues / Future Cleanup

• Nate08, Sahi Siva, Ratty Adhiththan, Arem Ozguc — Small collections in Singles/, verify artist names
• Some Tamil multi-artist-credit folders could potentially be merged under the primary music director
• Anniyan WAV files could be converted to FLAC to save space

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Adding New Music

When adding music to this library:

1. SSH into the server: TERM=xterm-256color ssh karthik@192.168.0.2
2. Create ~/Music/Library/Artist Name/Album Name/ folder
3. Place track files inside
4. Plex will auto-scan (or trigger manual scan from Plex UI)
5. For Tamil movie soundtracks: use the music director as the artist name
6. For Western soundtracks/compilations: use Various Artists/
7. Never put quality tags ([FLAC], bitrate info) in folder names