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I still have my files from 20 years ago.

I don't have my "media libraries" from 20 years ago.

As soon as a tool tries to move my files into an internal representatation I cannot control, I delete the tool.

I have my media library from 20 years ago: it is embedded in my music files using standardised tagging formats. Any in-software 'media-library' I have used in that time has simply been a cache of and search interface for this metadata. Similarly some video files support tags and there are some standards for external metadata storage that can live next to the files I believe.

I highly doubt the music file metadata shown in the video only exists in an opaque internal representation within VLC.

I've been using iTunes since 1.0, which was 19 years ago, so practically I actually do still have my media library from 20 years ago.

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