Media Storage Software

Jtalk4456 · April 13, 2020

I'm not sure where to put this question so I'm dropping it in Servers and Audio just in case. Mods feel free to move this wherever it needs to be.

So the situation is I've finally built myself a nice PC, got some VR, plenty of storage space, that's great. So now I have to tackle the clutter of old CD's and movies that I want backed up. Now eventually I plan to have a home server in some fashion. Feel free to DM me with any advice on that, I'm clueless how to go about it so far. But for the moment, I need to make a bunch of physical media into digital media. I have enough HDD space to store it all, no problem. What I need advice on is storage formatting, organization, and software. I've been preferential to VLC in the past because it's so barebones, but I've never really used it for storage/organization. It's been playback of files just tossed in a folder. I need advice on a good media library/playback software to use. Preferably freeware but if something has enough benefit i'd be willing to pay up to $20 USD for a license (lifetime only, no monthly payments). I realize this might be irrelevant when i have a server and the server software might take care of this problem for me, but it's probably going to be a while before I can tackle the cost of backing up everything. So I need a decent solution in the meantime while I'm ripping all of my current CD's. I'm using Windows, btw.

Thanks in advance for any help and consideration.