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How do you sort your music? (feddit.nu)

submitted 4 days ago by SpacePirate@feddit.nu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone!

I have been having a hard time finding a solution to my problem of sorting music from both Youtube music and Bandcamp. I have tried Picard and while it is good I have had problems with it. For example it has made songs shorter (they now end to soon.). So far the only solution I have found is to use Picard and manually review every song I own, and since I have thousands of songs It would take quite long.

I'm using Jellyfin with Finamp to play my music, and sometimes add lyrics via the Jellyfin app when they are missing.

How have you people solved this or similar issues? Does someone have a automated setup that works well?

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, at some point, I told Picard to just re-sort everything and that was not a good idea. Some songs got renamed or put under a different artist, because I guess, the actual song is not in the MusicBrainz database.
I do have a backup that I should restore actually, but yeah, difficult to notice such changes and especially to know how much damage was done.

I did also figure, I should just add the unknown songs into MusicBrainz, but boy, I added one album and that took more than half an hour...

Definitely leaning more and more towards that unsorted life...

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some songs got renamed or put under a different artist, because I guess, the actual song is not in the MusicBrainz database

How did you manage that? If picard can't find a song, it won't put it in the rightmost view and it won't be processed.

I don't let Picard move my files, only tag and rename them, because (last time I tried) I couldn't easily see where it was going to move the files to verify if it's correct. I run Lidarr pretty much exclusively to sort everything correctly lol.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I guess, it can select the wrong song, if:

the correct song doesn't have its acoustic fingerprint in the MusicBrainz database (otherwise it would be the closest match), and
another song has a similar enough acoustic fingerprint, above a threshold that you can configure in the Picard settings.

I assume, it has to be a threshold, because you might have slight variations for the same song/recording, like silence at the end trimmed or volume normalized or whatever.

And yeah, Picard's UI is certainly a bit of a hurdle. Conveying information for so many changes is definitely not easy, so I don't want to complain.
But you know, if it would have detected that some of my songs will get renamed not just with a few capitalization fixes, but rather completely different words, and it would have prompted me for those, then I wouldn't have misnamed songs now...