hi! i recently switched to self hosted streaming for my music, and i need a good app for my android phone to listen to my collection. needs: android auto, navidrome compatible, and it needs to work well with a huge collection

im currently testing symfonium but im curious if theres better apps.

So I've just noticed you can just change the file extension and the music fire we just work as normal.

What differences are there between these extension? Mainly on terms of tagging abilities, but also in general

I would like to have a server that I can connect to with my phone and desktop and do the following: (on phone, android) Download music from bandcamp and the internet archive, unzip it, tag it (mp3tag to export original tags, musicbrainz picard to tag and organise) (on desktop, windows) Download the tagged music, preferably straight to the right folders. And remove the music from the server for the next time. Can anyone here point me in to the right direction if and how this is possible?

I’ve been using subsonic for years to stream music from windows to iOS. I have a couple of somewhat related questions. First in terms of iOS clients. PlaySub near as I can tell is still the best one out there. I do occasionally use the now discontinued iSub because it’s simple, but limited. PlaySub gets bloated and doesn’t handle large libraries well. So first question - are there any decent alternatives? I have avsub installed but don’t really like it. Second. I have a ton of music not in my library yet, which I have downloaded but still need to preview. I haven’t found a good way to do that. I don’t want to add it to my subsonic library because it’s not tagged per my system or even tagged properly and I don’t want it mixed up with my organized library. So given that I can’t stream it from subsonic, does anyone know of an alternative server I can run in addition to subsonic and use it for this collection. Obviously browsing by folder is a must. Thanks!

Hi all, I'm helping a friend download a private podcast and wanted to embed the description metadata (and possibly other fields) into ID3 tags in the podcast MP3s. Is there an existing tool to access / export that metadata? Thanks.

Anyone else unable to get CD data on EAC today (Sunday)?

EDIT: It's working again as of Monday

I use Strawberry Music Player on linux because I enjoy maintaining playlists. It has an auto-tagger that uses MusicBrainz, but I want to use Beets instead because I prefer CLI and the album based approach. Of course, if I use Beets on my collection then the file names change and my playlists are destroyed.

Is there any way to use Beets (or Picard) and maintain playlists at the same time?

Yesterday I put a folder image into every album folder with the help of Album Art Downloader. Today I put a image of every artist in the folders.

Is there a tool, which could help with this too?

Those of us with fast hardware may wish to reduce the delay of the LMS background service startup from 2 minutes.

You can achieve the adjustment by creating the following registry key via the Windows Registry Editor.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\AutoStartDel ay

It is of type REG_DWORD. Set the value of the key to the desired delay in milliseconds (e.g. 60000 for one minute). You will need to reboot for the change to take effect.

Remember this change affects all Automatic (Delayed Start) services.

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SoundCloud is trash for quality in this big year of 2024. Is there any way to rip a HQ file?

Hi all, Im new to all of this just slowing starting to build my collection. All my song are named in the following pattern: Artist - Album - Title

Atm I have one folder with all songs in it. Is there a chance to automatically creating folders based on the file naming and moving the files to those folders? I thought about having an artist folder and than the different album folders in there.

Most of my library came from ripping CDs I purchased, and Amazon music mega packs from back in the day. I always entered a single genre for an album, and often for the artist level as well. I jumped on the streaming music as that became the norm. However, I've been less than satisfied with it lately and gone back to listening to my own library.

I am frustrated by the many similar genres of my music. I'm not sure how this happened, I suspect because several music players over the years like to "fill in missing metadata" automatically.
For the alt type genres I have:
Alt Rock, Alt-Folk, Alt. Rock, Alt-Rock, Alterna-Pop, AlternaPop, Alt-Pop, Alternative, Alt, Alternative Rock, Alternative-Rock, Alternative Pop, Alternative-Pop, AlternRock, AlternPop, Altern-Rock, Altern-Pop, Alternative/Rock, Alternative/Pop, Alternative Pop-Rock, Alternative Rock-Pop
I see all of those as duplicate genres, and I'm sure that could be cleaned up as simply: Alt Pop, and Alt Rock

Second problem I have is my albums have two-four different genres listed for various songs in the album, and most artists are in multiple genres. Such as Rock, Pop, and Alt Pop. I find this very frustrating.

I use Linux, and have MusicBrainz Picard and Clementine currently installed. I used multiple programs in WIndows back in the day. A couple years ago I installed Jellyfin to use as my DLNA server to play music from the NAS.

What's an easy way to repair this damage?

How do you prevent this from happening, or is this just the norm now?

Basically, I want to copy my entire library (flac files) into my walkman (mp3 format to save space).

Is it possible to do this with beet?

the song in question is by Ayesha Erotica called "Daddy's Girl" and was posted on her account "pussysugar" the song was released in 2015 and is now a lost media.

the only thing that still exists today of this song is its link

https://soundcloud.com/pussysugar/daddys-girl

although obviously clicking on it won't do anything

I tried a lot of things like WayBack Machine, archives etc. but nothing worked

is there a way to download this song? or if anyone has it could you send it to me?

source: https://ayeshaerotica.fandom.com/wiki/Daddy%27s_Girl

I have Stacher set up to download every new video from a YouTube channel in MP3 and I want these downloaded MP3 files to be tagged automatically with track number, artist, album, and artwork so they can be added to my Spotify local files. Is there any way to set this up automatically?

Might be a bit odd but I'm on a search to find some new friends who are also hoarding music.

I'd like to get a group of friends to acquire, share & tag tracks with. My hope is that we'd all be able to contribute & mutually benefit from our (assumed) differences in music taste, Tagging styles & general ideas.

Currently it's just me & one other friend we often share music files & I manage the Tagging software(s), mostly MP3tag. I create the actions that we use for tagging & share the configuration files so they can be used on other devices.

We're both 24 [M] from CA, USA Both using Symfonium on android as our primary music player. We enjoy many genres but the top ones are definitely

Rap / Hip-hop

R&B / Soul

Afro Beats

Trap House Jazz

Chill Trap

Gospel / Christian

Electronic

Soundtrack / Orchestral

Jazz

Dubstep

There's more but the point is our tastes (I think) are diverse.

We currently use a share folder with an application called syncthing to share files directly to one another. To be clear we don't have a synced / shared library we just send files back & forth

If anyone's interested 🤷🏽‍♂️ lmk I guess

Something like Mutagen, but I'm not really a Python person so not sure if that is the route I want to take yet. I tried MP3Diags but it's been a long while since an update. It does spit back a good amount of tag issues (if they exist. I'm currently looking at MediaArea.net / mediaInfo. It's a GUI based tool, which I prefer for now but I'm wondering how reliable it is, especially on tag errors. MP3Tag does show errors but not always. Guess it depends on the error.

Currently I'm using a script with a node version of taglib. It's flagged a bunch of files with "MPEG audio header not found" but doesn't tell me anything else specific. The files themselves play and even have some metadata but so far looking at the files in some other software, they look fine. A few got flagged in MP3Tag but most not. I have a feeling it can be 1 frame issue. Some of them were both id3v2 and APE, which seems odd but maybe not.

edit: found exif which seems capable, maybe someone has an opinion on it.

I have about 50GB (plenty more on the way) of random flac music. I hate relying on services like Spotify and want my music offline. I want to add the same tracks to several playlists without copying them, I listen to music on my phone mainly using a modded version of Poweramp, suggest better if there is and also something for my laptop since I'm mostly getting my music from SoulSeek. I'm already using MusicBrainz for correcting metadata but do I think there's probably a better tool for it. Okay, now the main topic is, how do I add synced lyrics to my track's metadata? Preferably in bulk, I don't want to do it one by one as it is gonna take ages. Please explain it to me like I'm a 5 year old.

Thank you so much.

Hi,

I have some audio cd's I am ripping, to put on my DAP for my car.

However, when I play a song within exact audio copy, the volume is loud, as opposed to an external media player, on the PC. Why is this? Also, I use these settings for quality:

Is there anything I am missing?

Hello,

I am using beets to manage my music files and then serve the files with Navidrome. I want to write a custom tag to duplicates of my music files and have that custom tag read by Navidrome and displayed in the UI.

Navidrome uses ffprobe (of ffmpeg) to read the audio file tags so I should be able to modify my local navidrome instance to read the new custom tag. Therefore as a first step I am trying to write my custom tag from beets and see if ffprobe picks that tag up by manually invoking it.

I use the following beet command to write the tag

beet modify Minitx dup=1

This seemingly writes the tag successfully:

root@4787cef4963b:/# beet modify Minitx dup=1
Modifying 1 items.
Skee Mask - C - Minitx
  dup: 1
Really modify, move and write tags? (Yes/no/select) Yes

I can see the new "dup: 1" tag set with beet edit --all.

However I do not see the custom tag with beet info.

Similarly, when I use ffmpeg to inspect the tags of the track, I do not see the new tag in the output.

ffprobe -show_format -print_format json -i /music/Skee\ Mask/C/07\ -\ Minitx.mp3

        "tags": {
            "title": "Minitx",
            "artist": "Skee Mask",
            "track": "7/11",
            "album": "C",
            "disc": "1/1",
            "date": "2024-01-04",
            "genre": "Ambient",
            "TBPM": "0",
            "compilation": "0",
            "language": "eng",
            "lyrics-XXX": "",
            "TIPL": "arranger",
            "album_artist": "Skee Mask",
            "artist-sort": "Skee Mask",
            "TDOR": "2024-01-04",
            "Script": "Latn",
            "TMED": "Digital Media",
            "ARTISTS": "Skee Mask",
            "ALBUMARTISTS": "Skee Mask",
            "ARTISTS_SORT": "Skee Mask",
            "ALBUM_ARTISTS": "Skee Mask",
            "Artist Credit": "Skee Mask",
            "ARTISTS_CREDIT": "Skee Mask",
            "ALBUMARTISTSORT": "Skee Mask",
            "ALBUMARTISTS_SORT": "Skee Mask",
            "ALBUMARTISTS_CREDIT": "Skee Mask",
            "Album Artist Credit": "Skee Mask",
            "MusicBrainz Album Status": "Official",
            "MusicBrainz Album Release Country": "XW",
            "comment": "Visit https://skeemask.bandcamp.com",
            "MusicBrainz Album Type": "album",
            "MusicBrainz Album Id": "9131b04f-c997-4e5a-9273-563e9c67e8b8",
            "MusicBrainz Artist Id": "2b3e25ba-983e-44ac-9def-907e03910cd2",
            "MusicBrainz Album Artist Id": "2b3e25ba-983e-44ac-9def-907e03910cd2",
            "MusicBrainz Release Group Id": "9805e30a-80ec-45be-bee9-d42eab66565a",
            "MusicBrainz Release Track Id": "266c59b9-4847-41e1-8ff2-7fbbf9745695"
        }

I've tried to use beet write to write the tag information to the file but still no luck. Any tips on how I can write this custom tag with beets and have ffmpeg see it?

I suspect my problem lies in beets not writing the meta information to the file properly (which is why the tag does not show up with beet info

This is a fairly esoteric Linux-y problem but I'm thinking this sub, plus r/Musicbrainz, are the places most likely to include people who know what I'm talking about...

I'm running Picard 2.12.3 on Debian Bookworm and it won't scan tracks. It can identify albums via Lookup just fine. I've ruled out problems with connectivity, file permissions, "bad" audio files, etc.

Digging deeper I found that fpcalc just returns this error, for any track I run it against:

ERROR: Could not create an audio converter instance (Invalid argument)

I've copied the very same tracks to my Macbook Air and fpcalc installed there works just fine on them (and hence, so does scanning them on Picard). I've tested flacs and mp3s on both machines - on Bookworm fpcalc always fails, on MacOS fpcalc always works fine.

ChatGPT suggested I check a few things:

• ffmpeg -codecs | grep flac - I get the expected output
• ffmpeg -i my-audio-file.flac -f null - looks fine to me
• ffprobe my-audio-file.flac - looks fine to me.

I've even tried uninstalling the chromaprint package and re-building the whole thing from source.

This feels like something rooted in the depths of dependencies and libraries for fpcalc and ffmpeg that is broken on Bookworm - any other insights? Anyone else experiencing the same thing?

Hi everyone, i am sorry because this is probably a dumb question but i am a noob at this, i want to add some local files to my Apple Music but the files that i have are mp3 128 kbps, in the apple music app there is a button to convert a song to aac 256 kbps, is it a good thing? Should i do it? Will it improve the quality? And speaking in general, increasing the bitrate would improve the quality even if i convert an mp3 to mp3 with a better bitrate? (Lossy to lossy) Thanks!

Hi! I have the following goal in mind: I would like to be able to organize my music into playlists dynamically and locally. In a sense that I would like to not rely on online services such as spotify and do it offline on my computer. And I would like to be able to add the same track to several playlists (without actually copying the data). I would then like to be able to listen to those playlists on my phone, so the software should be cross-platform (I am using linux and android). In addition, the perfect setup would rely on tags, so that I could then dynamically create playlists on the go by searching for a particular set of tags. Could someone suggest the software that might be suitable for this task? Or perhaps share their own setup? As a sidenote, I also have a NAS home server that I would also love to include for organizing and listening to music.
P.S.

I am looking for a solution along these lines: https://github.com/Krakor92/some-custom-dataviews/tree/master/jukebox

However I am hoping that there might be something less "homemade"

I've recently converted my Youtube playlists into mp3 files inside my pc, which I'm very happy with. (My ears aren't sensitive to notice any compression that might be happening so I'm not thinking of using FLAC) But for some reason when any given song ends it simply keeps looping even though there are more songs in that folder. Is there any way to get it to move to the next song instead of having to click on it?

Currently playing the tracks using media player, just media player not the windows one. Including VLC that's only 3 ways I'm currently aware of to play my music. If that's the issue, I'd love recommendations on better apps for this kinda thing, thanks!

Title fix: Organising a collection of predominantly single random loose unsorted tracks

Over the past 20+ years, I've collected 1000's of songs that now sit on various external hard drives, probably in triplicate. I'm not an album person, and I tend to cherry-pick the songs I like. Whether they are ripped from CDs that I once owned or yes, some would have originally come from OG Napster when I was a kid. They are semi-organised by listening genre (by that I mean there are no hard rules, if there's a Country track that I enjoy listening to when i'm in the mood for some 50's rock n roll, then it goes in the 1950s folder alongside that RnR). Makes sense to me, and only me.

My partner's got her own collection that is more album centric and better organised by `artist/album` as she's more of an album listener.

I'd like to merge our collections onto a NAS, but I don't really want a bunch of `artist/album` folders containing 1 or 2 songs. I have a very wide taste in music, 1940s Vera Lynn, 50s/60s RnR, 2000s Trance, there would be 1000's of single song folder trees.

Personally I think the best structure would be for my collection to be `artist/Singles/[file]` unless I happen to have a full (or full-ish) album to justify it's own `artist/Albums/[album]/[file]`.

But I don't know how i'd achieve that with something like MP3Tag. I do know how to code, so I could have MP3Tag organise by `artist/album` and then write a custom script to go through afterwards and move any single file albums to a Singles folder.

I guess the the point of this post is too ask:

1. How would you organise such a collection?
2. If my organisation idea is any good, is there a way to have the tool do this for me, or do I have to DIY my own?

Hi all ! I'm looking for a software that can add multiple tags for the same file. To be clear, I don't need to edit the metadatas or else, just that through the software I can search my files with the tags I put on them, I don't know if it's possible tbh

i'm curious about these plugins and what they can accomplish. for people who use the beets-xtractor plugin, what have you done with the data it yields?