Hello everyone!

I have been having a hard time finding a solution to my problem of sorting music from both Youtube music and Bandcamp. I have tried Picard and while it is good I have had problems with it. For example it has made songs shorter (they now end to soon.). So far the only solution I have found is to use Picard and manually review every song I own, and since I have thousands of songs It would take quite long.

I’m using Jellyfin with Finamp to play my music, and sometimes add lyrics via the Jellyfin app when they are missing.

How have you people solved this or similar issues? Does someone have a automated setup that works well?

  • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    23 hours ago

    I’ve gone back and forth on this, but ultimately, I enjoy the tagging process and accept it as part of my workflow.

    When i’m adding a release to my collection, I throw it into a temo directory, open the album folder in MP3Tag, query MusicBrainz (or Discogs if necessary) for the basics, replace the cover image if I’m not happy with the one from the source, add additional genre tags and do cleanup, auto renumber tracks/discs. Once it all looks good, I use the tags-to-filename feature to rename everything to AlbumArtist/[OriginalYear] Album/### - Title (### - Artist - Title for multi artist releases) then copy it to my library.

    It sounds like a lot, but it isn’t bad. Like I said, I enjoy it.

    Updating tags shouldn’t change the actual music though. That seems really strange and like something else is going on.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I’ve been doing this same process (minus the autorename) since around 2008. It doesn’t take much time and makes a huge difference in the long run.

      • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        20 hours ago

        TBH, I know the functionality is there, but I have never taken the time to look at it. It looks like more than it is. It’s a few clicks to search and find the right release, make my edits, 2 clicks to auto number, 2 clicks to rename. Sometimes I let the rename move the files for me too. Depends on the format.

    • SpacePirate@feddit.nuOPEnglish
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Yeah I might just need to start the process and then have like a monthly time to sort it. Do you know if there is any way to do something like this form the web/phone? Thinking I could then fix stuff on the go easier aka when I spot a error on some song.

      • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        I haven’t figured that part out. I try to just remember to fix things the next time I’m at the computer. My issue is that all my music is kept on the server and any tagging app I’ve found is for local files.

        There are web accessible versions of beets and Picard, but I have found them more trouble than they’re worth.