Comment on Music Library Management
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What methods do you use for managing a large music library?
I have a physical collection I have been accumulating for decades now, that goes as far back as 1937. I have used Beets and Picard, and back in the day MP3Tag for tagging, and surprisingly, MusicBee (Windows) is great for embedding lyrics. It takes a while to embed lyrics in a large collection. Currently I have everything tagged, in their respective artists/albums, and embedded lyrics for about 75-80% of them. I run Navidrome and stream via Feishin locally, and Substreamer on my mobile.
hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
MusicBee, I loved that player back when I was a Windows user. And MediaMonkey if you didn’t mind paying. Those two were the best music players. Now that I am full time Linux, there isn’t a player that even compares.
However, Feishin is about as close as I can get to a UI I like for a player, and luckily it works with Navidrome (jellyfin and others too)
myrmidex@belgae.social 2 days ago
Whenever I have to sift through a big collection, Feishin is no longer the right tool. In that case I use Quod Libet with the 3 panes layout. Resembles Musicbee/MediaMonkey pretty well.
OP: Don’t forget to have some fun with your collection: Mixxx - mixing and looping, so much fun!
It was, and imo, still is a great piece of software. I’m not always on a Windows machine, but MusicBee is a staple when I am. Every so once in a while, someone writes a piece of software for Windows that just kicks ass. Few and far between, but it’s pretty good stuff.
hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I do wish they made a Linux port. Because I’m never going back to windows.
It would be nice. I’ve hung on to my stripped down Windows 10 now because I use a program called BlueBeam for one of my business ventures that absolutely has to run on Windows. There is no Linux equivalent, and there is no running it in Wine.