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Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and ... by LeoPanthera on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:07PM (#27463595)
If you live on the command line I would like to highly recommend "beets" to manage your music: https://beets.io

It allows you to match your albums with specific MusicBrainz entries to get precise metadata.

It can be used in combination with playback tools like Jellyfin or Plex if you simply point them at your Beets library folder.

I've been using it for a few years and I would never go back.

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Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and ... by pimeys on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:36PM (#27464688)
Been going with this config[0] for some years already. Beets is awesome and gives me the organized flacs in my NAS, and the 96kbps opus files in my phone.

[0]: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/home.nix#L96-L126

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Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and ... by fredthomsen on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:12PM (#27463645)
I was very happy to see this tool mentioned and recommend it highly. Very nice tool to add album art and cleaning up the tags for your existing music
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Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and ... by shock on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:11PM (#27475157)
Unfortunately, it doesn't support multiple formats/versions of the same song.
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Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and ... by LeoPanthera on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:29PM (#27477464)
beets supports custom fields, so you could trivially make it do so by adding something like a "trackdisambig" field and then adding that to the path definition.
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Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and ... by mmastrac on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:17PM (#27464452)
Nice, thanks. I was using Picard and it's great but a little buggy at times.
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Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and ... by LeoPanthera on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:32PM (#27464650)
They're a good complement to each other. You can "pre-tag" files with Picard before having beets ingest them if you prefer a GUI to check what you're getting.
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