Check out beets.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 days ago
hey now, they’re flac files and painstakingly sorted with the help of musicbrainz picard
harcesz@szmer.info 2 days ago
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 days ago
Why, what does it do better than picard?
harcesz@szmer.info 1 day ago
Saved me a ton of time for some massive imports, but I do get @Wolf314159@startrek.website point, night not be the best tool for other cases.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 days ago
It’ll destroy all your painstakingly crafted and curated ID3 tags much faster than Picard. I’m not salty or anything. Anyway, the lesson for me was that music is simply too complicated from a library perspective to trust to highly-automated tools like beets. Picard kind of encourages you to go directory by directory and release by release, and that is a good thing. These days so are does most of the library stuff for newly added things, but I usually end up fixing it all basic to my standard with Picard later.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 days ago
Yeah, definitely agreed. There are so many edge cases. I tend to put new downloads/purchases in an “intake” dir and then run that through picard, which then saves it at the final local storage path with whatever tags I decide to use
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 days ago
I have that too! I also have that one folder of random shit that I’ve avoided sorting for the last 20 years.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 days ago
pff I have so many folders like that that I have folders for those kinds of folders. I should probably put those folders all into a single folder…