I’m making myself a case study—I’m completely revamping my music library. Right now, I have 218,894 music files, taking up approximately 1.4TB of storage. I know there are tons of duplicate tracks in there, so please, no judgment 😂😂😂. The reason I’ve accumulated so many tracks is that I often forget I already have a song and end up downloading it again. Plus, when I had a 6-hour Friday night residency, I always feared running out of ideas or tracks to play. Carrying an extensive library made me feel secure, even though I never played everything on my hard drive. That habit of over-preparing before a gig led to a messy and disorganized collection. Now, I’m finally trimming my library. If I ever run into issues, that’s what Tidal is for—though I know it can act up sometimes. My days of plugging in an external hard drive are over; from now on, I’ll only use the music stored on my internal drive. This will force me to stay on top of my music library organization. The Plan: 1️⃣ Scan for duplicates and delete them all. 2️⃣ Organize the remaining files properly. Let’s see how this goes!