How to fix genres for thousands of songs? And where to download giant catalogs of music? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by little_tuptup@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6528233

I'm working on building a personal alternative to Spotify and YouTube Music and I've hit two roadblocks.

Genre labeling in my library is inconsistent and manually updating 2500+ MP3s isn't feasible. I've tried using beets with the LastFM plugin in quiet mode but no luck. Any ideas?

Where can I bulk download diverse music catalogs? I've snagged some 'top 90s/80s/hiphop/etc' collections, but 2500 songs don't go far.

What I miss about Spotify and YouTube Music is their ability to auto-play similar tunes based on my current selection. Any advice would be appreciated.

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[-] skele_tron@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

I used beets once, misconfigured something and boy what damage it did to my music partition it was easier to wipe it and restore from backup.

Its powerfull but can cause some damage with copy / merge / rename etc.

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

If you start with the option to move, then it's bound to happen. If you take small steps and start with using -p (pretend) and use -t/--timid when importing/moving, then you get the hang of it and it works great. When I started I used 3-4 albums in a folder and tried to experiment with settings and plugins until I got what I needed.