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Beets for importing, ascii only, lastgenre, fetchart, whatever other plugins I’m forgetting, /artist/yyyy_album_name/ directory structure, 01_title.ext for single disc, 01-01_title.ext for multi disc. I invoke beets manually just to keep an eye on how things get matched up and tagged during the process. I deal in full albums, LPs, compilations and such because it’s often easier to maintain and match metadata than with individual tracks. I guess it’s a data hoarder / archivist compulsion too, but it’s rare I can’t find at least one other track on an album appreciable so… why not?

A weekly rsync pushes the beets DB and library from my TrueNAS server to another server with a 8TB external dedicated to backing up my most important stuff (personal projects, password store, compose files, confs, etc). I’ve got an rsync alias set up on my laptop I invoke manually because I’m nearing the limit of what I want to allot to music. At least until I decide to get a larger drive.

That’s local in triplicate, with zraid on the NAS and a fourth copy on my phone, which leaves me feeling pretty good about not losing any music outside of a house fire or tornado. I was also rsync’ing all my media (music, movies, shows) to another TrueNAS setup at a relative’s but some things have changed with that so it’s on hold. Not fond of missing my off-site backup but hopefully can resolve it soon.

Everything is local only right now. The library is mounted read-only in Jellyfin so can play music from pretty much any phone, TV, computer, my Steam Deck, etc throughout the house. If I ever decide to open things up, reverse proxy or whatever, I might look into Finamp but I buy a flagship phone every six to ten years for the storage space so I can just take my music with me. Might eventually switch that to a dedicated music device.

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hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Right now I am running beets against my live music dir and running a few different commands on it to see:

Duplicate albums:

  beet duplicates \
    --album \
    --full \
    --strict \
    --key albumartist \
    --key album \
    --path \
  > config/duplicate-albums.txt

Searching across different albums:

docker exec -i -u abc beets \
  beet duplicates \
    -F \
    -s \
    -k artist \
    -k title \
    -f '$id | $artist | $album | $title | $format | $bitrate | $length | $path' \
  > config/duplicates-across-albums.txt

And running this right now for audio checksum comparison:

docker exec -i -u abc beets \
  beet duplicates \
    -F \
    -C 'ffmpeg -i {file} -f crc -' \
    -f '$id | $artist | $album | $title | $format | $bitrate | $path' \
  > config/duplicates-audio-checksum.txt

And when that is done I know I can inspect candidate based on ID with something like this:

docker exec -it -u abc beets \
  beet ls 'id:1524' \
  -f '$id
Artist: $artist
Album: $album
Title: $title
Format: $format
Bitrate: $bitrate
Sample rate: $samplerate
Bit depth: $bitdepth
Length: $length
Path: $path'

I have the main music I am scanning mounted in read only right now; but when I am done collecting some information about it, I am going to remount and restart the container, along with modifying some config options.

Ultimately, I am going to go Artist by artist with something like this:

docker exec -it -u abc beets \
  beet duplicates \
    -s \
    -k artist \
    -k album \
    -k title \
    --move /quarantine \
    'albumartist:"Example Artist" album:"Example Album"'

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