I went through the exact same situation with my 20 year old music collection and MusicBrainz Picard and unfortunately this is just the state of music piracy even now as things are rarely tagged correctly or come from compilation albums, sample albums, or are just obscure and don’t have the proper tags available on the service. This is why I don’t mind paying for music streaming even though I selfhost most other media formats because you can put in days of work tagging songs and still have a jumbled mess at the end (Picard’s tagging template is also a huge PITA to use with some obscure legacy language).
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diegantobass@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt is indeed a great feature but how time-consuming haha :)
I inherited my music collection from my 20 years old limewire addicted self, so it’s a complete mess. I’m in the process of completing albums and using Picard to properly tag everything… 20 years of music collection…it’ll take me 20 more years!
Anyway, I guess it’s a warning for anyone starting to accumulate data: think about metadata, formats and data-management. NOW!
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I had some issues with my old kazaa era mp3s and figured it was sometimes easier to just download them again using soulseek…Now I have better formats and quality along with tagged files. Then I use navidrome to serve my music
littleomid@feddit.org 22 hours ago
Same boat. I put everything in Picard and let it analyze everything. It turned out about 95% perfect. Haven’t touched it since, and I’m using the metadata it generated.