Looking for a simple piece of software to finally clean up my tagging of 1000000 tracks . Currently on a Mac but may switch to a pc. So recommendations for both systems are good!

Thank you

Been using windows media player to rip cd's to my plex server but when there are albums with 2 cd's WMP will not save the disc number so its often that it's diplayed as one disc in Plex. Any method to have it included frpm the ripping stage so i don't have to add tags later?

Hello, i have around 100gb of music on my PC, and i would like to listen to that through my phone when being away from my PC. Whats the best and easiest way to do this?

I want the best rip of CDs I am converting, I can go through the setup of EAC and rip them to FLAC but it also seems like iTunes/iPhone don't support FLAC.

That being said, if I picked the best options in iTunes and do MP3 and call it good will I REALLY notice any actual difference in quality?

Looking for the balance of best quality vs convenience, like if I have a 320 MP3 vs Flac and am listening in the car or even my nicer home theater at home am I really going to be able to tell a difference? I can always keep a copy of FLAC for preservation but in terms of occasional listening is it worth the hassle?

I'm been making music mixes and exporting with Audacity. I noticed that my file is cutting off at 16khz, but why is there this bar at the top?

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I have a large music collection (say 100gb+) on my pc/external hard drive. My android phone has a 64GB sd card.

Usually, i listen to my music in a big shuffle. When a good song comes around, i press the 'add to my favourites' button. Then when i need some instant happiness, i shuffle my favourites playlist.

Now, i'm looking for an application that can 'refill' my phone with some other songs from my collection, while keeping all the songs i added to the 'favourites' playlist. (would be extra cool to only replace the unwanted songs i already listened to.)

So out with the old songs, in with the new, keep the favourites.

Is this possible?

Hi ! I recently got into downloading all my music because I want a way to have a single purpose device simply for enjoying music without distraction. Problem is all my music is on spotify, Not going to talk about how I am downloading all my songs but I do want to ask if anyone is fimilar with spotipy and getting all my albums,artists etc as a list ?

So, I have a question. How can I tag multiple artist on a song? In Picard, I can add multiple values to the tag artist, however, if I use subsonic, it will not work, it requires an artistS tag. Is it okay, of I copy over everything from the artist tag to the artists one? Is it a problem that they are essentially duplicated?

So, can I edit the database directly, so it would not make the composer an artist? So scrobbling would automatically go to the REAL artist on last.fm, without having to pay for pro, so I can edit it?

Hello there, just found this subreddit and maybe some people here had to struggle with the same problem as me: So I mainly use my phone for listening to music and therefore got almost all my local files on there and have to always have them with me. Problem is, I only have 128gb of internal storage and it's almost full now and my phone doesn't have a slot for a SD card, so I constantly have to clean up space or compress more files which annoys me a lot.

Are there any semi-permanent smart storage solutions for USB-C around and do they even work smoothly for streaming music off them? Or are there any other ways?

I already have a playlist with track numbers in the file names. If I wanted to add a new track into the middle how can I do that and have all the subsequent tracks renumbered? I was going to use mp3tag to add track numbers to the metadata, but that doesn't seem to let me reorganize the track order, or at least I don't know how; and if I use Bulk Rename Utility to remove the numbers from the filenames to renumber them, then my order would be lost.

Some of my .lrc files have built in time offsets, but not all players recognize the offset, namely Plexamp does not recognize it.

So, I want to search within all my .lrc files in mass to find the word “offset”.

In W11 I can do a mass search in the contents of text files just fine, but W11 does not search within .lrc files like it does for .txt files.

Any solutions anyone knows of?

Looking to rip to mp3 mostly for my phone. Want high quality but not the highest, trying to save as much space as possible, I have a lot of CDs.

Every tutorial is basically another language to me and usually for flac.

So just need one that’s simple to follow.

Hey guys,

I am trying to organise my folders in large batches in a certain way but I’m struggling to find the best way to do it.

I’ve been using MP3Tag to do it so far but I’m coming across two issues. The first one is that the catalogue number seems to be a mixture of lower case and upper case but I want them to all be upper case. The second issue I’m having is that some of the album artists are two artists so the / is separating it into another folder and the same for the album name.

So the album name is track / track so it keeps separating that into folders.

This is the example of how I want it to look:

[CATALOGNO] Artist 1 / Artist 2 - Album name / album name into a folder containing the two songs.

Any help would be appreciated!

Heya! Wanted to ask what you guys like to use on MacOS for music organization. I have a LOT of movie/videogame OSTs that I need to sort beyond just genre so most music players arent really cutting it for my needs.

Making a new playlist for the 200+ albums I have feels stupid and kind of a wasteful endeavor, especially if I were to add new songs to an album (primarily because id have to update those playlists manually), and I'd like to keep playlists dedicated to curating music collections that include songs from multiple albums.

Doppler's ability to add albums into Collections is exactly what I'm looking for, but Doppler lacks a lot of other features that I like in iTunes (mini player, being able to sort the album view by multiple paramaters, etc...)

I don't have anything as crazy as a NAS (yet....) so I'm just working off an external hard drive with cloud backups atm. I don't need to sync this library to my phone or any other devices necessarily, just my Mac.

Any suggestions? I don't mind a one-time payment for an app, but I'm specifically avoiding subscription services.

Keen to see how different people approach this based on their goals. I'm especially interested in seeing how people incorporate the following elements:

• RSS monitoring of private trackers/automated downloading of certain music from different sources
• Automated/scripted filtering/editing of metadata etc
• NAS/server usage and music library setup within this
• Other knarly configurations you're proud of

I have a music library (quite small in comparison to some I see on here. About 3000 songs or so.) that is just one folder with all of the individual files inside. I am looking to sort my library into artist/album/title style sorting before I move forward with tagging. Does anyone have any recommendations for this style of sorting without tagging?

Update: I should have said that my files do have basic metadata (artist, album, track, etc)

Man I’ve been trying to go through and retag my stuff after I found out Plexamp “supports” multiple artists unlike Plex, but it doesn’t work as well as I thought. First it doesn’t like the id3 format of “artist;artist2” which displays as “artist, artist 2” in the detail, which kind of sucks but it does work with “artist, artist2” and even though it displays as “artist, artist2” you can click in and see it separates them into two different artist so that’s good enough for me for the ARTIST field. The real problem is with ALBUMARTIST it doesn’t seem to support the same “artist, artist2” format and will call “artist, artist2” a third separate artist from “artist” and “artist2” which isn’t what I want. Here’s an example. I’ve seen posts where people have gotten this to work, but I haven’t had luck even with their / naming convention. My only other thought is to delete the whole library in Plex and try again with the / but after that I’m kind out of ideas. Anyone else had luck with this?

Hey redditors,

I need to compare the audio quality of the 2 audio files of the same track (e.g., FLAC and Opus 192), which I assume will be mainly the dynamic range, right? So I need a service which will tell me something like "your Opus is 97% of your FLAC" or something of the kind, so that I understand roughly what the compromise of conversion is.

That better be an online service or a portable app, since I'd prefer to not install app for the purposes of this short experiment only.

Thank you!

I've noticed a bunch of my songs have artists tags on top of the traditional artist tag.

Is this artists tag just a custom field or should I bother cleaning it up?

Hi I am searching for music player for iOS (I am actually gonna use it for audiobooks) with option to lower down sound like -6db for example. It would be also nice to how good organize albums tab. Free or paid (mad 5-10 dollars) Also it could remember last listening position

I have a ton of music I need to add artwork to and I want high quality pictures. Is there a program that can do this?

I’m looking for a way to efficiently embed album artwork into my music files. Each album has its own .jpg/.png image file, and I’m hoping to find a method or software that can automate this process for me. Any recommendations or step-by-step instructions would be incredibly helpful! Thank you in advance.

I'm trying to get my roughly 75k collection of ALAC files converted to FLAC files for easy handling in Navidrome. There are also roughly 25k mp3 or aac files mixed in there as well. I have dBpoweramp available to do the conversion. I'm trying to figure out the best way to batch convert all those files.

Ideally I would like to just have the batch converter hit only the ALAC files and nothing else, as to not try to create FLAC files from lossy source files.

My solution thus far would be to go folder by folder and see which are the lossless albums and convert from there.

The other thing I tried was to create a smart playlist in iTunes for the lossless files, and then I dragged those into a folder before I went to work this morning. In theory that might get me a bunch of unsorted files that I could easily batch convert. But that's a little sloppy.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Hi guys, I have recently switched to downloading music and listening to it on my DAP. I have around 500 songs rn, which compared to ppl here is not a lot, but I would like to start early with organization.

Right now I have a couple folders with specific artists and albums that I like to listen separately from all other music (and some playlists). So usually I just go to my non-foldered files and hit random. I also have lrc files in the root. So far it's working, but I'm worried what will happen when my collection grows bigger. Any suggestions?

!: I usually do not organize by album overall; I just download songs from an album that I like. I've noticed that it's common, but then a lot of my album folders would barely have anything. Also looking music up by album exists anyway, so I'm good:D

I have recently built my own Unraid server, where I am storing my music library (currently as a mirror of the local files on my MacBook Pro). This Unraid backup is itself backed up to BackBlaze B2, and I also am using ZFS. My plan is to:

• Make my Unraid server the source location of my music library, and delete the current music library off of my MacBook, freeing up local space while still being able to access my library as a mounted volume with SMB and play back using Swinsian on my Mac, or via something like Plex on other devices.
  • This means I need a good method of having my current music player (Swinsian) point to the Unraid server as the new location of the music library, while retaining all the current playlists I have set up in Swinsian. My concern is that by changing the location, and therefore having copies of tracks become the new default location, Swinsian won't regard them as the same tracks as the ones it currently has (my local files) in all my playlists. How to ensure the changeover doesn't affect this?
  • Similarly, I DJ and use Rekordbox. I am going to follow this promising guide and tool from u/MixMasterG in order to locate my Rekordbox tracks following the change in location from local storage to Unraid server. If anyone has any experience running their Rekordbox based on a remote, mounted shared folder, I'd be keen to hear any tips or general advice.
• Have a good workflow for the following actions:
  • How I download and sort music:
    • Music from private tracker torrent sites I'm a member of, or Soulseek > some light file name and metadata modifying > sorting these newly downloaded files into folders in my music library (stored on the Unraid server), maybe having some kind of automatic folder sort for "newly downloaded" or "not listened to yet", or something similar if anyone else has any good systems worth sharing.
    • I've heard of a way of setting up automatic downloads of torrent files from trackers that meet certain filtered criteria? No experience with that kind of stuff, would be keen to learn.

If there are any other actions, tools, programs, workflows etc that people have experience of and suggest I look at, that would be cool too. I'm new to the server game and looking to create a complete workflow/music management system.

I'm getting ready to upgrade my NAS this summer finally...any advice on hard drives....I've got about 50-60 tb of music (lot of live dead, related member bands, dmb, Phish, Allman Brothers etc)...going to do a 4 or 5 bay unit...

Thx for the advice folks!!!!

I've ripped over 500 CD's to FLAC for home use and convert them to MP3 for the phone. I have been using a wonderful program called LRCGET to find/download most of my lyric files which works great.... unless it doesn't find anything. I want to keep everything uniform as possible, this program downloads an .lrc file for synced lyrics and a .txt for unsynced.

I thought I could just make a text file with the same music file names and save it as a .txt. That didn't work of course. I see how I can embed the lyrics into the files themselves into the files but then I this doesn't work for MY OCD brain as the file itself isn't generated. How do I make this work people of Reddit!? :P