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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

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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