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What are you guys using to sort and name music? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] gccalvin@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You can easily import music metadata to musicbrainz with userscripts: https://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 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

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

https://harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk/

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks. Didn't know these existed.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

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