Two frantic but productive days of album admin.
First, Deb pointed out that on her fancy PC, our album art was a little fuzzy. I examined a few common resolutions (I think she has a 4K monitor) and reasoned that it was time for an artwork upgrade. The downside is the bandwidth and memory of 81 albums/releases; which feature a thumbnail and (usually) three booklet images. Before, each image was 400x400, with 300x300 for the pages. After some calculations and tests, 1000x1000 for the full album seemed a good size, so I spent yesterday updating all 81 releases.
The older albums varied in their artwork standards, so many needed revisiting and tidying up. That, more than the actual conversion, took longest. All in all, the 289 images took all day.
Today, revamping my primary music catalogue. Each album has a main type code (called a Release Group in Musicbrainz) plus sub-codes for media or 'Release', which is normally a CD release and a digital streaming release. Some are concurrent. The Flatspace Soundtrack, for example, is released on CD, and Bandcamp, and Distrokid (Spotify etc.), and Steam, all at the same time. Some releases replace and supersede older releases (some CDs are on a second edition, for example). Some have different tracks/audio for CD and Stream releases, in fact most of the newer albums do, like the Fall in Green Salomé album, although most of my post-2020 releases (which is a lot, perhaps a third of my total artistic output) don't have CD versions at all. When I do make some, their music will be different from the stream versions. All of this information needs storing in a clear way.
All of those codes and releases are now in the public Cornutopia Music Catalogue.
This took all day, and also helped spot a few 'bugs' and inconsistencies in the filing. You can't create without a good filing system; you'd get tangled up and lost. After that, renaming some folder names to clarify and unify these standards in the album filing system too.
Next, I must make and prepare the CD art for Letters From A Square Spoon.
