A suggestion, since I see this more and more especially in communities that consist of (relatively) young people.<p>Don't use discord. Even if you don't agree with the spyware characterization, there are very good social reasons to choose something else (e.g. IRC/Freenode or Matrix or preferably both). I don't use or advise people use discord for anything, but I don't really have any strong opinions if gamers or youtubers/"social influencers" end up going that route (because to them it's a means to an end for their monetization strategies). But it's a totally different situation for open technical communities.<p>Going with discord you are basically isolating yourself and the community you are trying to form from the older generations. People who grew up on the Internet in the 90s and 2000s and for whom IRC is bread & butter. These are also the folks that have accumulated a lot of experience and wisdom and that you really, really, don't want to be apart from. Especially if you don't have time to waste in mistakes that others have done and learned from before you.<p>These "wise veterans" are not going to come to you, in discord, but you can go after them by signaling through setting up shop in the places I mentioned.
Man, this looks slick! And I loved your rant regarding collecting vs tagging/sorting, definitely can relate. I miss my CDs :)<p>It's a pity that most users are with dynamic IP and behind a NAT. This makes sharing directly with someone via BT impractical, so people still use email/messengers for that.
Have you run this against a large collection of torrent files? There are many edge cases. E.g. many metadata handlers barf on very large torrents such as the TLMC or danbooru2019. Others have issues with non-utf8 filenames since while it is strongly recommended it's not required (since unix doesn't require it either).
As one of the few who still maintains a personal music collection I applaud the amount of thinking that has gone into the question of how to make doing so as frictionless for nontechnical users as Spotify.<p>I like the idea of a common metadata format but I wonder what the next step is after that. What problems will this solve that can't be solved by ID3 tags for MP3s, and what is the benefit of having a single metadata container for music and films?