I’ve just started using beets for organizing my collection. It’s relatively easy once you get the hang of it. Ease I suppose differs based on how organised/tagged your collection is currently.
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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 days ago
I just set up Navidrome in my lunch break and am looking into exactly this. I hadn’t downloaded/organized my last Bandcamp purchases and now I have 32 zip files on my laptop and am wondering how to get them properly tagged and sorted in the existing library.
I’m rereading this article by @nfreak@lemmy.ml and it seems like beets could be an answer, but I don’t fully understand what exactly it does yet.
dracs@programming.dev 6 days ago
AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev 5 days ago
Beets is one solution, and I also recommend taking a look at Musicbrainz Picard. It’s a more graphical and user friendly way (though more manual) to identify, organize, tag, and sort music into a preferred format. It’s what I use on all my Bandcamp purchases to clean up metadata and add things like lyrics before it automatically throws it into the right folder
minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Beets can organize your music library. It uses musicbrainz IDs to identify songs and albums, it can move/copy the files into folders. You can also convert files right away. I created additional mp3 files and moved Thema into a separate folder for use on my phone to save space.
There are plugins to normalize the volume. Loads of dstuff. You just have to set up a config file to your needs and you are good to go.