Howdy! I'm a musician who had an awesome grandpa who was also a musician.

16 years ago... I asked him if he ever had written his own music... he said yes, I wrote a song. He played it for me and I recorded it on my Yepp player.

He passed away many years ago. I still have what I think is the file but do not have the skills nor tools to make it usable.

However, if someone can successfully do it... I'd love to pay an award for their services. Sorry if this isn't the right community but kind of desperate.

If interested, let me know... Steve

So I'm new to MusicBee, but I really appreciate the immense amount of functionality and features, which helps for my affinity for keeping things organized. Unfortunately, it seems to have a habit of claiming that some of my files are "corrupted" or "unsupported", and when I go and open them in other programs, such as MediaMonkey, Audivrana, VLC, or any number of basic media players, they open just fine and with no such issues. I'm running MusicBee through Parallels at the moment, but I'm not sure if the problem is on my end, or if it's some sort of bug that MusicBee has. I would really like to know if there's a simple solution, as I'm not exactly very experienced with stuff like terminal or command prompt.

Hello fellow hoarders!! Out of curiosity I'd like to know some of your favorite custom tags in your library.

Some personal favorites for me:

Samples:

All the songs that a track samples or interpolates.

Rapsheet / Explicit Score:

The choice words in a song are counted to create a "score". There is also a list that shows how many instances of each "word" appears in the lyrics.

Definitions:

List of slang words or phrases & their Definitions (mostly used for music that features a language I do not speak.

Core Memories:

These are personal notes, stories, events or experiences regarding a song or album. This info gets added to my album descriptions for me to read & re-live later.

PMO:

This is a "sub genre" PMO standing for "Put Me On". I use this tag to list whatever friend, family, coworker or what have you recommends me music that I end up keeping in my library. (None of them know I'm keeping score)

I have an Audio Library I access through plex music. I used Plex Guid to name and organise the library: Artist/Album/Track. Is there a way to edit metadata of music files based on the naming of the folder structure?

Hey everyone. I’m looking for something that feels quite simple but for some reason I just can’t figure it out. So, I have a PC with a ton of music on it that I would love to listen to while on the go using my iPhone. Like a decade ago, I used to do that by uploading it to my phone using iTunes, but doing that now would just fill up my phone’s memory instantly. I’ve since tried using Spotify’s local files feature for this but that is completely unreliable and usually just flatout doesn’t work.

So my question is: what can I do, what apps can I use to essentially create my own personal little streaming service on my phone using music files that I have on my computer? The player on my phone doesn’t have to be too elaborate necessarily, the only must is a Shuffle function.

MusicBrainz & mediaMonkey & mp3tag doesn't show the "Tags" field in windows properties for a m4a files.

Why? And how could I fix it

Hey guys I have this weird issue where the MusicBrainz API is only returning the data sometimes, maybe about 1/3 of the time. For example I am going to use the song Blue by Far Caspian and it has a MBID of 3ac0d9cd-c8b6-4736-a1a1-30832e259c53.

I am using this bit of Python to query their API

    creds = [credentials]
    URL = f"{BASE_URL}?method=track.getInfo&mbid={mbid}&api_key={creds['key']}&format=json"
    print(URL)
    
    response = requests.get(URL)
    # Check if the request was successful
    if response.status_code == 200:
        # Do stuff here
    else:
        # Error handling stuff here

And so for the Far Caspian song I am getting this URL to use http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=track.getInfo&mbid=3ac0d9cd-c8b6-4736-a1a1-30832e259c53&api_key={credentials}&format=json but I am only actually getting data back about 1/3 of the time. The rest of the time I am getting "No results found" but I don't know how it can't find the results because I am providing the MBID?

Maybe I am just doing something wrong I don't know, there isn't a whole lot of documentation online for this API.

I want to put the full release date in the metadata for plex to pick up since the metadata scraper won't. Is there a way and in that case how?

xspf In this format without paths but using metadata -

        <track>
            <title>xx</title>
            <creator>xx</creator>
        </track>

What are some of your solutions for automatically tagging non-english releases? I’m currently using lidarr which tags with musicbrainz but find that it’s extremely lacking when it comes to non-English artists in particular with Swedish and japanese artists. Are there any other good tools that is better at handling this? Preferably which I can automate.

I'm slowly getting the hang of Mp3tag, and now I'm trying to dig a bit deeper. TIA for grace as I'm sure I'll use incorrect phrasing.

The majority of my files are organized Music/Artist/Album; this works well with compilation albums when I set the Artist to "Various Artists." However, I like to keep Soundtracks together in their own folder: Music/Soundtracks/Album.

Is there a function or action that can do that?

Not sure if I'm wording my question correctly, or if this is purely a Spotify issue, but each time I upload a quality image of an album's cover art to an mp3 file through tag editing, it always looks poor quality when uploaded in Spotify. Is there a way to fix this? Or is this a question I should be asking in the Spotify subreddit lol

Hello! I'm new to this and I thought about asking for few tips and questions about ripping. Things like you wished you knew when you started this hobby. My plan is to buy an external optical disc drive. I'm eyeing for Asus SDRW-08D2S-U(USB) or Asus DRW-24D5MT(SATA) that I'll be plugging to my pc.

Now here's my questions: (Please reply with the number so I'll directly know which question you're replying/referring to :)

(1) Can I just rip with any optical drives? Because I remember reading something about some drives not being able to rip BDs or losing the ability to rip caused by patch and updates. I'm wondering if that could be the case for CDs as well.

(2) Is there difference between "thin usb" vs "fat sata" optical drives in terms of accuracy, stability, and quality of rips?

(3) Can there be a ripping process where issues are not visually shown in the screen but it's a total catastrophe in the file?

(4) Offsets. How do I know what are the offsets for my drive if it's not on the internet. You can also recommend optical drives that are mostly used in the hobby or the one's that you're using. :)

I'm eager to rip my favorite CDs so your responses are highly APPRECIATED <3

I have music file directories with files named as below:

Artist- Album- Track Number - Song Title.flac or .mp3

In the same folder as the song file, there will be a song lyric file saved as the same name, but the extension will be different, such as this:

Artist- Album- Track Number - Song Title.lrc or .txt

Is there a program that can scan directories and determine which song files don't have a corresponding song lyric file?

I have a bunch of local files/music stored in iTunes, mainly an iPhone guy. I keep the metadata (year, album name, track number, etc) pretty meticulous. My library’s been around for like 15+ years, so I’m sure bit rate and sound quality vary track to track.

I’m looking to jump into the DAP (digital audio player) market using Android. I’m shelling out a bit for good IEMs and DAP because I love music, want to enjoy it to the best of my ability possible and provide some separation from everything else on my phone.

Which leads me to my two questions:

1. Should I prioritize FLAC (partially due to my OCDness of having the best quality although I may not necessarily hear it) or MP3 320kbps for convenience of when I want to add the odd track to my iPhone, I can easily do so without having to convert from FLAC and throw it in iTunes.

2. What’s the best way to convert my library of mixed sound quality songs (100GB+ of music) to another platform where I can then extract the highest quality version, if even possible. I was thinking of maybe converting my iTunes library to Spotify (granted only 320kbps is an option I believe) via local files and then using a Deezload bot or something to take the shareable links and download higher res versions I’ve also been messing around with squid.wtf, but having to do the conversion one track or album at a time, and Musicbee (for metadata) having never used them before.

Happy to provide additional input if needed for clarification. Perhaps I’m thinking about this all wrong or maybe I’d just be a tedious task I’ll need to spend time on. TIA!

I currently have what I think is a fairly slick setup functionality wise, but not quality wise.

So I am trying to find something that can do what my current setup does or more, but from YouTube Music instead of Deezer. I have tried some YouTube channel downloaders like TubeArchive, etc but I will often have to go in and remove non music tracks from my library.

I’ve been seeing several apps that use Spotify metadata and YouTube as the audio source and package it as a streaming app, pretty cool and works surprisingly well…but I need to download the music automatically and those don’t do that.

My current setup is literally “set it and forget it”, but I can’t find anything to do the same with YouTube which honestly blows my mind.

Deemix does the downloading, and is used for adding new artists.

Deemon lets me monitor artists for new releases and ties into Deemix to download them.

deeQ is my own creation that automates the process of detecting if a new artist is added to my library and automatically sets up monitoring in Deemon.

And I can control which artists are monitored and which aren’t through a simple txt file with check boxes.

My issues with this setup is that all my music is 128k mp3 which is a noticeably lower quality. I’d like to find a way to get that up to between 256k and 320k. FLAC are just too big and I generally don’t notice a difference.

Hello fellow MusicHoarders - after decades of collecting and one catastrophic hard drive crash, I recently started working on getting my chaotic music collection in order. Over the years I collected music from numerous sources - some of which are now defunct.

Part of my workflow has been importing lower quality MP3s and those of, ermmm, questionable origin into iTunes and using iTunes Match along with a program called iTunes Match Tagger that fetched and updated the song tags of the matched AAC file to file on Apple's server that was Matched. However, this week the program ceased functioning and I'm curious if anyone know of anything similar, preferable a Windows program that works?

Program I've been using https://github.com/b-/itunes-match-tagger

Thanks in advance...

im on Monterey still. not sure if doing this OS update with corrupt files, bug my apps or anything. i have my files backed up but its been like 2 years since ive updated OS. anyone on the current OS still using the music app for local files?

I would love to see your genre folder trees for some inspiration on another project.

I Haven't been through an old Hard drive in at least a decade or so, in fact I am very surprised the thing still works! The music is bit of a mess - different formats and tagging/ album covers missing or wrong. There is however nearly 60gb of mostly WMA 128kbs .

I have started thrifting CDs and ripping to FLAC which I am enjoying. I just wonder how I can incorporate these old files.

Unfortunately the original CDs are long gone.

I guess I should just spend some time tidying them up the best I can and consolidate the odd MP3 files into WMA just for consistency.

From now on I will rip to FLAC and store the CDs rather than junking them!

I have been collecting CD's for about a year and its been going great.

Hello all! A little introduction, I have ~1800 songs and 39 gigs of music. I've been slowly building up my music collection after deciding to transition from Spotify to Navidrome, a neat little self-hosted streaming service. I've been buying primarily digital copies from Bandcamp so I can download in .flac, but recently I learned 100 gecs' album 10000 gecs has a couple slightly different songs on the CD after buying it. I would like to rip it and tag it, but I already have the digital copy marked as "10000 gecs". I also like scrobbling to Last.fm and would prefer to have the album scrobble the same as the digital edition, but I would like for it to show separately in my library. For those of you who have run into this, how do you tag it? Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I have about 3000 songs that are all organised in a neat folder structure with their correct metadata

I am looking to create playlists of these songs, I generally create my playlists based on either or both genre and year. So for example I could have an.all time playlist of all Country music, or a playlist of music between 2010 - 2015 that includes all genres. Maybe one plasylist with just the stuff I like.

I am in need of a program or app that allows me to view all of these music files, filter them, and easily create playlist, and edit and update them as required.

Can anyone recommend something for this?

Thanks.

In Spotify, I have a folder where I keep playlists of albums to listen to and then decide if I want to download them or not. The folder is at 2000 albums atm and instead I want to make a list on my phone of these albums and then delete them once I've listened to them.

I'm looking for an app that will do this, but also sort it not just in my custom order but in alphabetical order if I'm looking for a certain album.

Can anyone think of a good iPhone app that is built for this type of thing? I've looked in the app store, but maybe I'm entering the wrong search info. Maybe such a thing doesn't exist lol

So my mom has an old MacBook probably from 2012-2015 area. In more recent years she's got a sonos system & she's always had an android phone. She went to the apple store to see if they could upgrade or migrate her iTunes music from her old MacBook to her newer one but apparently no dice.

How can we export her iTunes library so that it is

A) accessible on her Android phone

B) copied to an external drive or NAS

C) Highest possible quality

I've never been on the apple side so I don't even know where to begin as my files on windows & Android have always been manually tagged by me & stored in a music folder that I have full control over.

She also has an iPod nano which she used to put music on but i guess it's full now so she's kinda just stuck. She mostly uses her phone or the car to play music but she often complains about not being able to play her music whenever, wherever like she used to. Apparently there's a sonos companion app for Mac but her laptop is so old it's hot supported by the sonos app.

If I could get her library exported I figure I could manage it like I manage my own & she'd have access to all of her music to listen to it anywhere.

If there's other workarounds please let me know. I'm all ears

Hi Folks,

does anybody has experience in using the mentioned device for ripping CD‘s direct on PC?

Especially with copy-protected CD‘s from years 1999-2001? I have a big leck in my mo3-collection because it seems to be impossible to rip my own CD‘s from these years…

So, I have something like hope with the new device but want to make sure that it will work…

Thanks for your input on this!

Thanks to so many of you who have provided info here I've relied upon. I am a non-tech savvy older fool who has devoted WAY to much time over the last few decades digitizing an impractically large old vinyl collection. I have about 150k songs which are too big for Apple Music (and some of the very old tracks aren't the required quality). I use Sonos and have all the songs on a Synology NAS. I am looking for a way to listen to them on both my Sonos, on the web (if possible) and also on my iPhone. I currently have Apple Music to listen to newer stuff. My question to you geniuses is- what system would you recommend that would let me access all the music on my NAS on Sonos and my iphone, and also allow me- with a separate subscription- to access a paid music streaming service? Thanks so much. You all are great.