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Re:Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs by JTon on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:39AM (#24990567)
I've been hunting for an auto-tag solution for my collection. What tools are you using?
Re:Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs by nonbirithm on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:02PM (#24990802)
Beets is a decent and battle-tested solution. It has a Discogs plugin as well.

https://github.com/beetbox/beets

it takes a while to take a large library, but that's mostly because of intractable problems with ambiguity in metadata searching. I think it's about as fast as is reasonably possible.

Re:Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs by Kaze404 on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:04PM (#24990826)
My favorite thing about beets is that it doesn't stop processing when it needs user input. Meaning you can tell it to import a bunch of files, completely forget about it, and come back the next day and only give it input for the files that need it.
Re:Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs by thirdsun on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:48AM (#25032296)
I wouldn't let an auto tagging solution anywhere near my collection - at some point it will get things wrong. However if you don't mind manually checking and editing tags I find Meta [1] to be an absolutely fantastic app.

Every new release that gets added to my collection will spend a few seconds in Meta so that I can check and edit the meta data and rename the files in a consistent way. Obviously you can also edit multiple releases at once.

I used quite a few tagging apps over the years, Meta is without a doubt the best of them.

[1] https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/