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Music Library Management (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Greetings Lemmings!

I am not new to self hosting; been at it for a few years. And I have neglected a very important part of my home lab; MUSIC!

So I stream music from Navidrome to all of my devices.

My music library has grown organically over the years, for probably the past 17 years. And a few times I had manually organized and fixed up some of the tags. But ultimately I ended up with a mess of a library.

I am working on cleaning that up. Though I absolutely should have cleaned it up before I created 2 backup scripts.

In short, I have a script that is called from a systemd service on a timer that runs my backup script that essentially more or less uses rsync to mirror the files in LiveMusicDir to MusicArchive1. This happens on my docker host where my Navidrome lives. The Music is on an NFS share hosted outside of the docker host.

The next step I run another similar setup on my desktop; systemd service running a script on a timer that uses rsync and other dependencies to track changes.

What I plan to do is organize the source. I am using beets, and learning as I go.

What methods do you use for managing a large music library?

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[–] Damarus@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Picard is the way to go if you want to get the highest quality tagging with exact release matching. Most would probably not care too much about this, however when I know my files were ripped from a Japanese release, I want the tags to reflect this. Picard allows me to find the right match before any tags are written. This is especially helpful when you have two or more different versions of the same album, e.g. one CD rip and one vinyl rip, or two CD releases with different set of bonus tracks. My directory structure and tagging rules set in Picard allow me to manage this consistently with no manual workarounds.