InterSynth

RARBG really left a big hole in my heart.

Nobara is my choice. It’s based on Fedora, which is a very solid base already, and Nobara adds numerous fixes that will save you days if not weeks of headaches, especially if you have an NVIDIA GPU.

I’d love to have everything in FLAC for preservation’s sake, but I’ve settled for Apple’s QAAC. Great quality, small size, universally supported.

I suggest you convert them to AAC with Apple’s excellent QAAC encoder instead. fre:ac can do it just fine once you add the encoder. Much better and more modern format than MP3, and still universally playable.