Hi all :)

I’ve been using MediaMonkey on Windows 10 and Android to organise my music, playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts, including syncing them to my phone. MediaMonkey has let me down again, so I’m looking to switch, and as I’m trying to switch to Linux too, now would be a good time to get a Linux media manager.

One of the main ways that I use MM is by either building a playlist and transferring the whole thing, or adding to a playlist and just syncing the new tracks. I prefer the tracks to be placed in their artist / album directory though, rather than a directory for the playlist.

I also use MM on Windows to organise my tracks with online metadata, usually from Discogs, so that it matches the entry for the album. I store my media under music\sorted\album artist\album name\track no - artist - title, with a similar setup for audiobooks and podcasts, and would prefer to do the same with the new software.

Does anyone know of anything that can do this please?

I’ve looked at Strawberry and Cinnamon, but development seems to have stopped, and I don’t know enough about things like flaws and bugs to know if they’re still safe to use.

Thanks in advance for your help :)

  • jws_shadotakEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not a great replacement but Plex with Plexamp might be an option for music. I’m not sure it can handle audiobook or podcasts metadata automatically. It will host it anyway but you might have to find the metadata externally or import it manually.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for replying :)

      I’ve got Plex, and have tried Plexamp, but it just didn’t do it for me. It’s been a while, but I think I could only stream, rather than sync to my device. I couldn’t get Plex to import the tracks in the way I wanted either.