cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6528233

I’m working on building a personal alternative to Spotify and YouTube Music and I’ve hit two roadblocks.

  1. Genre labeling in my library is inconsistent and manually updating 2500+ MP3s isn’t feasible. I’ve tried using beets with the LastFM plugin in quiet mode but no luck. Any ideas?

  2. Where can I bulk download diverse music catalogs? I’ve snagged some ‘top 90s/80s/hiphop/etc’ collections, but 2500 songs don’t go far.

What I miss about Spotify and YouTube Music is their ability to auto-play similar tunes based on my current selection. Any advice would be appreciated.

  • nicocool84
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    1 year ago

    I use beets and soulseek but my ambitions are lower than yours.

    • skele_tron@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I used beets once, misconfigured something and boy what damage it did to my music partition it was easier to wipe it and restore from backup.

      Its powerfull but can cause some damage with copy / merge / rename etc.

      • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        If you start with the option to move, then it’s bound to happen. If you take small steps and start with using -p (pretend) and use -t/--timid when importing/moving, then you get the hang of it and it works great. When I started I used 3-4 albums in a folder and tried to experiment with settings and plugins until I got what I needed.

          • Turbo@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Lol! That was me last night but fortunately I played with fake copies and directories and wow. It could have been bad