Selfhosted @lemmy.world chagall @lemmy.world 7mo ago

For those who selfhost their music services, what are your must have plugins for beets and/or Musicbrainz

I’m curious what plugins people like the most and find the most useful.

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I've been maintaining a self-hosted music library for so long (30+ years now), there used to not be any tools for editing metadata. I used to have to go into file properties and manually edit the data for each individual MP3 file. Nowadays, I use Mp3tag to manually edit entire albums at a time. I have ADHD though (the hyperfixation kind), so I've literally dedicated thousands of hours to manually fixing metadata.

I guess I never bothered to look for more advanced tools to auto-update metadata. I had to go in and manually fix stuff that updated automatically from the Internet in the past, so I guess I stopped trusting online databases. But they've really advanced since the last time I went searching for tools, and their databases are a lot more complete in this day and age. I'm gonna play around with some of these programs and see how well they work.

I host my music library through Plex, then use Symfonium on my phone if I want to stream my Plex music remotely, just because I like their interface a little better than Plex's.
- Mp3tag and hours of fixing metadata used to be me, and then I just kind of... Ran out of time for that.
- +1 for MP3Tag; it’s a wonderful tool and I’m overdue to donate to them.
  
  I also use Plex to host the music but use PlexAmp for playback; the additional features (Sonic Adventure / “DJs”/etc.) are great features.
  
  Here's your reminder to send him a few bucks. https://www.mp3tag.de/en/donations.html
  
  Thanks! (Seriously)
  
  MP3Tag sounds cool, but there's no Linux version it seems :(
  
  I came from MP3Tag and the closest Linux version I found is puddletag it's litterally written to be the same.
  
  I use it for some metadata editing that - in my case - I can't seem to get Picard to do (might just need to RTFM a bit more)
  
  Check out Picard, I switched to it when I switched to Linux: https://flathub.org/apps/org.musicbrainz.Picard
  
  It's a pretty simple program so it probably runs fine under Wine.
  
  Easytag works pretty well for me on Linux, when I'm not just using Picard. I use EasyTag mostly for fixing and normalizing the tags on audiobooks these days.
- When you say Plex interface remotely, are you referring to the Plex app or PlexAmp app? I feel like PlexAmp fixed all of my complaints about listening to music through Plex (the same app I use for videos).
  
  I was referring to PlexAmp. It's decent, works well, but I just liked the interface for Symfonium better. It seemed more functional than PlexAmp when I switched over to it.
  
  I actually haven't used PlexAmp in a few years, so maybe it's gotten better lately. I guess I'll have to compare apps.
- Well I've just successfully used the new Google screen AI feature on my phone for the first time because of your comment.
  
  Highlighted Symphonium and searched and downloaded in seconds. It's a cool app, like it

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