What are you guys using to sort and name music?
from Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 16:14
https://lemmy.world/post/35869689

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

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curbstickle@anarchist.nexus on 13 Sep 16:18 next collapse

Lidarr + Picard when needed is about all I do, need for Picard is pretty rare at this point, except when pulling in tracks from burned CDs of esoteric mixes I made quite a long time ago.

AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 18:43 collapse

Sonarr + Picard

Do you mean Lidarr? Sonarr is the TV one (confusingly).

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus on 13 Sep 18:55 collapse

Whoops! Brain no worky.

Fixed, thanks!

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 13 Sep 16:27 next collapse

I’m using beets but it’s mostly a manual process.

Check this comment/it’s comments as well: lemmy.nocturnal.garden/comment/189300

gccalvin@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 16:39 next collapse

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.

infeeeee@lemmy.zip on 13 Sep 16:57 next collapse

You can easily import music metadata to musicbrainz with userscripts: github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-userscripts

I use the discogs and bandcamp one frequently.

Install the userscript in your browser, and if you find your album on discogs or other sites, it adds a button there, and with few clicks it transfers the data to musicbrainz. Then in picard search again, or copy the link from musicbrainz to the searchbar in picard

Eldritch@piefed.world on 13 Sep 17:18 next collapse

Yes, 100% this. I use both of them regularly. A lot of new releases are on band camp and not even on discogs anymore. But combined with music brains Picard, they are awesome.

Cyber@feddit.uk on 14 Sep 09:57 next collapse

Thanks. Didn’t know these existed.

Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works on 14 Sep 11:31 collapse

Here’s another tool to import music metadata to musicbrainz.

harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk

BruisedMoose@piefed.social on 14 Sep 01:22 collapse

You can move files to new folders with Mp3Tag, too. It's normally all I use for managing my files and metadata.

vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 Sep 16:40 next collapse

If you’re an Apple household, Apple Music (iTunes) is still great. I don’t pay for streaming services; I buy music on iTunes/Bandcamp and rip CDs.

Apple Music has a fantastic interface for managing metadata, creating playlists, and performing complex batch jobs with AppleScript. I sync my iPhone and iPod Nano every time I add a new album, and I host my media folder on NextCloud for listening on other devices.

harmbugler@piefed.social on 14 Sep 10:04 collapse

Every time I’ve checked in to see if I can use Apple Music, it won’t do anything without a subscription. Are you using it without one?

vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Sep 14:43 collapse

The Music app (also called Apple Music, formerly iTunes) is a library manager at its core. You don’t need an Apple Music subscription to use it. It runs on macOS and Windows.

HerrHelmus@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 16:50 next collapse

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.

nfms@lemmy.ml on 13 Sep 20:53 collapse

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.

thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 Sep 17:00 next collapse

Command line warrior here. I use wrtag. It rocks and is super fast and easy.

Tangent5280@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 17:55 next collapse

Hey, OOTL here, what spotify nonsense ar eyou referring to here?

SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 18:22 collapse
  • Continually increasing subscription prices
  • Ripping off artists
  • Introducing AI bullshit
  • Blocking explicit songs unless users verify their age with a third party
Tangent5280@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 08:46 collapse

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.

Sepix@feddit.org on 13 Sep 18:40 next collapse

Mediamonkey.

Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Sep 21:07 collapse

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.

Damarus@feddit.org on 13 Sep 19:13 next collapse

Highly customized Picard, I find that I get the most accurate metadata with it.

merde@sh.itjust.works on 13 Sep 21:34 next collapse

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.

nasteva@jlai.lu on 13 Sep 23:09 collapse

Used to use this, but sometimes, opus encoded audio in ogg files gets somewhat corrupt when adding a cover image

cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Sep 23:40 next collapse

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.

starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev on 14 Sep 01:28 next collapse

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

HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz on 14 Sep 01:46 next collapse

Nicotine (soulseek) -> beets -> navidrome

morphballganon@mtgzone.com on 14 Sep 04:02 next collapse

Just do a few albums at a time. Your playlist will expand over time.

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Sep 09:17 next collapse

Picard and Lidarr

Gonzako@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 09:50 collapse

Lidarr works again? Last time I tried I wasn’t working

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Sep 10:59 collapse

The metadata server is currently being nursed back to a working state

Gonzako@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 11:24 collapse

So I can’t just put it in docker and forget no?

Hominine@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 12:43 next collapse

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. Edit: blampe/lidarr:latest

Gonzako@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 11:16 collapse

Hey! Thanks for the checkup! Lidarr is up and running

Hominine@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:31 collapse

You’re very welcome, congrats!

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Sep 12:44 collapse

Never were, seemingly never was.

ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 11:46 next collapse

File names and directories🗿

Chaser@lemmy.zip on 14 Sep 12:25 next collapse

I’m using MusicBrainz Picard. However there are some tricks to spare you some nerves:

  • you can set weights to release types in the settings. Singles and compilations should have a lesser weight than albums.
  • Don’t add too much music at once. Or you’ll get crazy selecting the correct releases. I usually go with one artist a time. Especially for older artists I just add one album a time. You can enable the file Browser in the view settings, than you can just drop them in one after the other.
  • in the right pane you can just drag and drop whole releases to merge them together.
  • Also noticable is the rename feature in the settings. It’s just awesome!
freebee@sh.itjust.works on 15 Sep 11:19 next collapse

Musicbrainz Picard, there is no better user friendly solution.

Yes, it can seem like a lot of work, but you can also look at the flip side: you can learn a whole lot about the music you like in the process.

If music metadata is missing for stuff you have and like, add it to musicbrainz yourself. No, it isn’t particularly fun, but someone has to do it. I do it sometimes for more “local” albums of which I own the physical record or CD.

If shit is really messed up and you have a historic collection of mp3s from back in the days when getting a full album took a long time: don’t be scared to throw stuff out and source it again. It’ll likely be much higher quality for same or smaller filesize and have better metadata from source already, which makes using musicbrainz a lot easier. And what took many hours back then takes seconds to minutes now.

killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Sep 12:46 next collapse

on windows i used mp3tag, and on linux i use puddletag

handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip on 15 Sep 17:18 next collapse

Plexamp for music streaming so I have CarPlay compatibility and Tunaar as a custom IPTV xml provider where I created an MTV like channel that plays ~200 music videos between Daria and Beavis and Butthead episode blocks through Jellyfin.

Localhorst86@feddit.org on 16 Sep 10:21 collapse

My workflow is:
-Musicbrainz Picard to get all the information from an online database
-clean up the tags with kid3 (Linux), rename files and folders
-use mp3gain to “normalize” all songs to the same level, so I don’t have to constantly adjust the volume.