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ok, maybe this is the right thread for this question: Anyone has a good structure for their own mp3s? I'd imagine tagging all files and using those tags for pla

by Tarsul 5y ago

ok, maybe this is the right thread for this question: Anyone has a good structure for their own mp3s? I'd imagine tagging all files and using those tags for playlists would be a good way to do it. Does anyone do something like this or similar and can give pointers?

crooked-v 5y ago
Run an old version of iTunes in a VM? The column browser is still one of the generally best media browsing interfaces I've ever dealt with.
sparkie 5y ago
Use MusicBrainz Picard. The MusicBrainz database is probably the best there is, and it does a good job of automatically tagging your music. Once tagged, every file will have a unique musicbrainz_trackid (UUID) in its metadata, which can be used to recover/update the metadata associated with the track automatically from the database, which is constantly updated (and to which you can contribute if it is missing metadata for your tracks). You can configure Picard to arrange files and rename them however you want. It has some simple scripting functionality so you can name things conditionally based on the presence or absence of metadata, etc. [https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/tutorials/naming_script.html https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/tutorials/naming_scri...] If you are concerned about privacy, you can run your own musicbrainz instance in a VM and download a copy of the entire database. Picard is extensible with Python. There's some existing plugins for generating playlist files.
- ghostly_s 5y ago
  A complementary alternative I'd suggest is beets[1], a front-end agnostic CLI tagging utility that also matches your files against the MusicBrainz database and can both correct the ID3 tags and maintain a directory hierarchy based on those tags. The biggest shortcoming of the MusicBrainz database I've found so far, however, is genre tags. Most releases seem to have only one or a handful of genres listed with no consistent genre hierarchy convention, but I've been experimenting with an extensions that pulls genre tags from discogs. 1. https://beets.readthedocs.io/ https://beets.readthedocs.io/
jazzyjackson 5y ago
I guess I'll need to blog about it because I can't find any information online, but still nothing has beat Sony's SonicStage, which is by most accounts very annoying proprietary software for working with minidisc players that want ATRAC encoding, but also included an excellent tag navigator that worked like so: While playing any song in your library, you could display a graph view which showed the song center screen, and radially arranged spokes enumerating what the song was tagged with, "rock", "instrumental", "upbeat" etc, and when you clicked that tag, it would become center-screen and all the songs with that tag would be radially arranged around that tag. So you could navigate your library by kind of surfing the tag-graph and hit play/add to playlist as you go. Last I checked there were .exe's compatible with Windows 10 available so I'll have to download it again and try it out.

by Tarsul 5y ago

crooked-v 5y ago

Run an old version of iTunes in a VM? The column browser is still one of the generally best media browsing interfaces I've ever dealt with.

sparkie 5y ago

Use MusicBrainz Picard. The MusicBrainz database is probably the best there is, and it does a good job of automatically tagging your music. Once tagged, every file will have a unique musicbrainz_trackid (UUID) in its metadata, which can be used to recover/update the metadata associated with the track automatically from the database, which is constantly updated (and to which you can contribute if it is missing metadata for your tracks). You can configure Picard to arrange files and rename them however you want. It has some simple scripting functionality so you can name things conditionally based on the presence or absence of metadata, etc. [https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/tutorials/naming_script.html https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/tutorials/naming_scri...] If you are concerned about privacy, you can run your own musicbrainz instance in a VM and download a copy of the entire database. Picard is extensible with Python. There's some existing plugins for generating playlist files.

ghostly_s 5y ago
A complementary alternative I'd suggest is beets[1], a front-end agnostic CLI tagging utility that also matches your files against the MusicBrainz database and can both correct the ID3 tags and maintain a directory hierarchy based on those tags. The biggest shortcoming of the MusicBrainz database I've found so far, however, is genre tags. Most releases seem to have only one or a handful of genres listed with no consistent genre hierarchy convention, but I've been experimenting with an extensions that pulls genre tags from discogs. 1. https://beets.readthedocs.io/ https://beets.readthedocs.io/

jazzyjackson 5y ago

I guess I'll need to blog about it because I can't find any information online, but still nothing has beat Sony's SonicStage, which is by most accounts very annoying proprietary software for working with minidisc players that want ATRAC encoding, but also included an excellent tag navigator that worked like so: While playing any song in your library, you could display a graph view which showed the song center screen, and radially arranged spokes enumerating what the song was tagged with, "rock", "instrumental", "upbeat" etc, and when you clicked that tag, it would become center-screen and all the songs with that tag would be radially arranged around that tag. So you could navigate your library by kind of surfing the tag-graph and hit play/add to playlist as you go. Last I checked there were .exe's compatible with Windows 10 available so I'll have to download it again and try it out.