Oh. Oh my.
I have a small music collection: about 8000 files, and growing steadily. I want to keep a copy of my collection on my Android phone. (I’ve been keeping a full copy of my collection on some portable device for fifteen years now, and I don’t see why I should stop now.)
My collection is too large to fit into my phone’s `internal storage’, which appears to be whatever change is left out of 32GB by the phone’s firmware. So I bought a 64GB µSD card to keep the music on.
I initially made the copy by physically plugging my µSD card into my laptop’s MMC slot, mounting it, and running rsync(1). rsync is awesome.
Then I bought a new CD. (These are silvery discs which store uncompressed digital audio.) As usual, I copied the audio data off the CD, encoded it as FLAC, tagged it using MusicBrainz Picard, entered into my master archive, and then invoked my audio conversion gremlin to make Ogg Vorbis for satellite devices. Now all I need to do is copy the new Ogg Vorbis files to the phone.
And that’s where the trouble started.
