[HN Gopher] Beets: the music geek's media organizer
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       Beets: the music geek's media organizer
        
       Author : pabs3
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-06-29 06:23 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (beets.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (beets.io)
        
       | jrsdav wrote:
       | This almost makes me want to give up streaming services and go
       | back to managing a music library! I would have loved to have had
       | this ~10 years ago.
       | 
       | And if something like this exists for managing photos...it's a
       | complete mess with Apple's file naming conventions when you a)
       | switch to a new phone or b) have more than one phone (i.e. family
       | members whose photos you manage). I'm sure I've lost a few photos
       | over the years to an errant file clobber.
        
         | johng wrote:
         | This has been around longer than 10 years, BTW :)
        
       | dddddaviddddd wrote:
       | One day I hope to find a music manager that allows arbitrary
       | tagging that works just like labels in Gmail.
        
       | res0nat0r wrote:
       | I would add Picard to this list which is also very helpful and
       | has a nice gui: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
       | 
       | I ripped my ~1000 cd collection before I moved and downsized and
       | between using EAC to extract the music and just mass dragging and
       | dropping the files to Picard to fingerprint and rename to my
       | specs was fantastic.
        
       | captn3m0 wrote:
       | Beets is amazing and comes with great defaults. I wrote code
       | recently to generate CUE sheets from YouTube mixes[0] and beet
       | imports it nicely and easily.
       | 
       | [0]: https://github.com/captn3m0/youtube-cue There is a bash
       | snippet in readme to show the Beets integration.
        
       | theden wrote:
       | Like others I've settled with MusicBrainz Picard
       | https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ I prefer GUIs for some reason
       | when it comes to music organisation (GitHub repo
       | https://github.com/metabrainz/picard).
       | 
       | Beets is great and powerful but if you overlook something it's
       | easy to mess up your library, but any serious music collector
       | (hopefully) has backups.
       | 
       | Other (GUI) alternatives I've tried:
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       | MP3TAG (paid) https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ I didn't see much value
       | over using Picard.
       | 
       | Bliss (paid) https://www.blisshq.com/ Really nice, but was way
       | too slow for me.
       | 
       | MediaMonkey if you're on Windows https://www.mediamonkey.com/
       | 
       | Sometimes, in certain niches open source software dominates and
       | really is better than the closed source paid software
       | counterparts. Don't believe the (marketing) hype!
        
         | kup0 wrote:
         | mp3tag is free
        
           | theden wrote:
           | Thanks, updated to fix the err
        
       | tunesmith wrote:
       | Does something like this help for increased categorization? I
       | have a band where we record our rehearsals and so it kind of
       | obliterates the old Song/Artist/Album style of categorization. We
       | add things like Session/Rendition, and want to look up "songs by
       | session" and "songs that Steve played on in January" and things
       | like that. We eventually started playing with Filemaker of all
       | things, but I wonder if there's something easier and more web-
       | based, without having to create a whole new custom web app from
       | scratch.
        
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