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Beets tips & config (piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm finally making a real effort to add beets to my life. I've been hesitant because I like what I like and I (mostly) know what I'm doing, you know? I also have a lot of local independent albums that are just not likely to get tagged anyway.

But here I am. Yesterday I was able to work through:

  • Implementing my preferred directory structure and naming conventions
  • Adding album art (embedded and in the folder)
  • Embedding lyrics
  • Adding ReplyGain information

I use Navidrome as my server and have a collection of about 2000 albums.

What are some of your tips for using beets?

What cool things are you doing?

What should I be thinking about as I go about this?

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

IDK if I'd recommend this to others, but I don't trust unsupervised metadata lookup (I'm anal like that), so I lookup metadata with musicbrainz picard and then feed the files to beets only to keep my library organized.

My beets doesn't do any lookup (no lookup plugins are enabled, none_rec_action: asis, fetchart configured to only look at the local filesystem).

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is kind of how I have been operating. Rip to FLAC. Manage the lookup and tagging manually. Then I have a series of scripts to convert to MP3, apply RG, and send the FLAC to an off-site backup, move MP3s into the library.

    I thought maybe I've been too anal about my tags and I should just work through letting it standardize and add IDs to everything. But now you all have me questioning that part.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Picard adds IDs too (well, I think it only adds musicbrainz ids, per default anyway, but those are the only ones I care about).

    The lookup is automatic as well (you can review or intervene if it fails to identify the release).

    It also has a plugin for replay gain (I redo that step in my script anyways) and can be configured to delete any previous tags if you re-process music that you had previously tagged with some other software (IIRC it doesn't clean them up per default).

    If you've not used it, I recommend giving it a try before deciding how to go on.

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