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?
I use a manual approach for my music:
First, I use Musicbrainz Picard to tag my music according to their database. Most of the time, “lookup” just works, bacuse the source files are already pre-tagged sufficiently, sometimes I need to “analyze” the files, which is slower, but works with whatever “lookup” didn’t catch.
Then I use kid3 to manually clean up my tags, like fixing Genres. I also use its renaming function to keep the filenames uniform - Artist/YYYY - Album/## - Title.ext
After that, the files get normalized using replaygain/mp3gain.
Only then will the files get moved to my NAS, where every device will be able to access them, and overnight my phone will automatically grab any newly added music and copy it to the phones SD card.