I’ve started using beets to manage my music library, but it doesn’t work well with jellyfin. As you can see, it creates about a million artists off of features, and this makes it hard to use. I can’t find a way to fix this in beets, so I’m considering switching, but haven’t found any proper alternatives. Do you guys solve this in any way, or use a different management software that is more standard? Thank you!

  • shadejinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    Musicbrainz Picard --> mp3Tag --> MusicBee

    • Picard handles the initial tagging.
    • mp3Tag handles the clean-up. I like things “just so”, and some of the time Picard goes rogue. The Actions function is super powerful for automating “fixing” tags. Oh, and you can cut, filter and paste an entire directory’s worth of song tags if you want to bulk remove a bunch of unwanted tags that Picard adds.
    • MusicBee is the database. I like the Inbox feature that allows me to do a last check before “promoting” the files to my master library.

    There are portable versions of all three, so you can lock a version in your music directory and never worry about updates ruining your tags.

    • MSids@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I have the same setup with Picard --> mp3tag, it works very well for me. I prefer to overwrite the artist field with the album artist field for cleaner sync to my iPods with MediaMonkey (iPods handled multiple artists in the worst way imaginable).

      Picard did take some light up front tweaking to get the directory naming to albumartist\yyyy - albumname\01 songtitle.flac but it was worth it