I’m working on building a personal alternative to Spotify and YouTube Music and I’ve hit two roadblocks.
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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?
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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.
Are we talking full albums here or tracks and singles?
Beets, the MusicBrainz tagger can handle this.
plugins: lastgenre should load the plugin, but I think you’ve come that far.
In the config.yaml file you’ll also need to tell the plugin to get some tags.
lastgenre:
auto: yes
count: 1
source: artist
I usually keep the count at 1…
If you are importing singletons you need to use the -s option, otherwise importing albums should work.
I know that likely didn’t answer the question, but somebody might find it helpful.
Ex Falso is an OK tagger for manually doing stuff.
2,500 isn’t much. I think many of us here could point you in the right direction for getting loads of high quality music. But, I am not super comfortable dropping names…the first thing listed on this site is a super easy way to get started https://github.com/Shakil-Shahadat/awesome-piracy#music-downloading
Your next problem will be too much music, which is where I am at, but that isn’t a complaint or a flex. It happens when you’ve been hoarding since the '90s.
