So with the most recent Spotify nonsense I’ve finally had enough and I’m going back to mp3. Unfortunately, I haven’t had to do this since Bush left office and I do not have the free time to manually sort and document every single file I have. I’ve been using MusicBrainz Picard but I don’t know if the learning curve is steeper than I have traction for or if it’s just really picky.
Anyone got suggestions on how to better manage all my jams? I’m trying to make it user friendly as I can for the family and so far I’m not winning lol
File names and directories🗿
Picard and Lidarr
Lidarr works again? Last time I tried I wasn’t working
The metadata server is currently being nursed back to a working state
So I can’t just put it in docker and forget no?
There’s a docker build that has a patch for the metadata; It’s spotty, but I’ve been using it just fine. I will link it here in a few when I get to my compose file.
Never were, seemingly never was.
Nicotine (soulseek) -> beets -> navidrome
MP3Tag + MusicBrainz Picard. I use MP3Tag to set the ID3 tags and picard to move them into the folder structure I want.
It takes a couple hours to set everything up, but I can’t rely on Musicbrainz alone because my music has no metadata on Musicbrainz, so I set the tags myself.
Highly customized Picard, I find that I get the most accurate metadata with it.
EasyTAG is a simple application for viewing and editing tags in audio files.
It supports MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio, and WavPack files.
And works under Linux or Windows.Hey, OOTL here, what spotify nonsense ar eyou referring to here?
- Continually increasing subscription prices
- Ripping off artists
- Introducing AI bullshit
- Blocking explicit songs unless users verify their age with a third party
Thanks, I noticed that clicking on an artists name now took you to their About page. Can’t find the artist’s top songs anywhere or atleast I can’t find them. Rage.
I selfhost navidrome for the music streaming (+symfonium app for mobile). Multi user and multi library support.
For music tagging itself ive used beets, picard, and kid3 (kde). Currently I am liking picard the most. It took a little bit of learning but less than beets
I host with Plex. It doesn’t pay attention to my carefully crafted tags, it uses its own. I still do the work with Mp3Tag. But I do m4a. Better quality than mp3 and better licensing. My files are a little bigger than 320k mp3 and sound almost lossless.
Mediamonkey.
Be careful with Mediamonkey. I’ve got it on my phone and PC, and my music is getting quieter and quieter on the phone. I think it’s something to do with the volume leveling on the Android version, but haven’t had a chance to figure it out yet.
I can put a song on full volume, and it’s quiet enough that it’s difficult to hear. I’ve tried the same tracks through youtube, and the volume is fine, so it’s not the phone speakers.
I get most of my music from Bandcamp and I use Jellyfin as my streaming service. I wrote a script where I fill in the artist, album title and the download link. It then creates the relevant directories, downloads and unpacks the files and then fixes the metadata using beets with the last.fm plugin to get the genre tags. Jellyfin then does the rest.
I’ve been wanting change the script up, so that it creates the directories after the metadata is correct, but I’ll need an evening of hyper focus for that.
I use bandcamp regularly, although i tend to just buy and download from the webpage, and then I let beets organise and copy the files into predefined directories. It also can do zip files.
