So you’re telling me the model cannot consistently run at a profit, even through it relies on a massive unpaid labour force.

Better to create a whitelist instead. Webrings used to be popular in the 90s/00s.

https://based.cooking/ demonstrates the way forward. Recipes are text; perhaps a small photo or two as a prep/serving guide, but nothing more than that.

/artist initial/artist name/album name (It’s a fool’s errand trying to create a folder scheme that accounts for every classification edge case. Accept the mess!)

Tagging is outsourced to the BT tracker community. Playback via cmus or Emby.