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.
I'm using beets but it's mostly a manual process.
Check this comment/it's comments as well: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/comment/189300
I'm using MusicBrainz Picard. However there are some tricks to spare you some nerves:
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.
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.
Nicotine (soulseek) -> beets -> navidrome
Hey, OOTL here, what spotify nonsense ar eyou referring to here?
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.
File names and directories🗿
Just do a few albums at a time. Your playlist will expand over time.
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.
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.
on windows i used mp3tag, and on linux i use puddletag
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.
Command line warrior here. I use wrtag. It rocks and is super fast and easy.
Picard and Lidarr
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.
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
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