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

submitted 1 year ago by little_tuptup@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] Nyarlathotep@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Genre tagging is a huge pain in the ass!

Picard is probably the most popular tool for this, but a problem with any auto-tagger is that you may disagree with the genre selection. Because the data is all crowdsourced you also see inconsistencies... Like "Hip-Hop" and "Hip Hop" both in use. Either you live with that stuff... Or, you do it yourself.

2500 tracks isn't actually that much to do manually. Chip away at it with a great tool like mp3tag, and once you are caught up, do new additions as you get them.

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