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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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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Mine just runs over my music directory on a cron and tags what it wants. I don't pay any attention to it. I haven't come across a mis tagged track yet. Maybe I will at some point?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Maybe I will at some point?

    As far as tags, I haven't run across any miss-tagging. That's usually pretty straight forward. I have had some lyrics that didn't apply to the song, that got imported, but that's separate from beets. When it comes to importing and embedding lyrics, I found MusicBee to be quite efficient. Takes a very long while for large collections, but it works.

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