So with the most recent Spotify nonsense I’ve finally had enough and I’m going back to mp3. Unfortunately, I haven’t had to do this since Bush left office and I do not have the free time to manually sort and document every single file I have. I’ve been using MusicBrainz Picard but I don’t know if the learning curve is steeper than I have traction for or if it’s just really picky.
Anyone got suggestions on how to better manage all my jams? I’m trying to make it user friendly as I can for the family and so far I’m not winning lol
gccalvin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MP3Tag + MusicBrainz Picard. I use MP3Tag to set the ID3 tags and picard to move them into the folder structure I want.
It takes a couple hours to set everything up, but I can’t rely on Musicbrainz alone because my music has no metadata on Musicbrainz, so I set the tags myself.
infeeeee@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You can easily import music metadata to musicbrainz with userscripts: github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-userscripts
I use the discogs and bandcamp one frequently.
Install the userscript in your browser, and if you find your album on discogs or other sites, it adds a button there, and with few clicks it transfers the data to musicbrainz. Then in picard search again, or copy the link from musicbrainz to the searchbar in picard
Eldritch@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, 100% this. I use both of them regularly. A lot of new releases are on band camp and not even on discogs anymore. But combined with music brains Picard, they are awesome.
Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Here’s another tool to import music metadata to musicbrainz.
harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Thanks. Didn’t know these existed.
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You can move files to new folders with Mp3Tag, too. It's normally all I use for managing my files and metadata.