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Re:Beets: The music geek's media organizer by tuukkao on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:53AM (#45873937)
If you're using Navidrome or similar to stream your music then check out beets-alternatives [0]. It lets you sync (and optionally convert) your library or a subset of it to another location, in my case my music storage mounted with Rclone. It's especially useful if you need to have a different naming structure in your target directory for whatever reason. I like to keep each disc of a multi-disc album in in its own subdirectory but most streaming servers seem to prefer all tracks of an album to be in the same directory. With Beets-alternatives I can have a different naming structure for each collection vs. having to rename my primary collection to suit whatever streaming server I happen to be using.

[0]: https://github.com/geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives

Re:Beets: The music geek's media organizer by Okawari on Monday November 10, 2025 @05:19AM (#45874458)
One of my favorite beets projects is beets-flask.

It lets you set up fully or partially automated import pipelines with a nice web UI to manage any manual steps needed.

Importing is usually as simple as dropping a zip in a folder and the rest is managed automatically.

https://github.com/pSpitzner/beets-flask

Re:Beets: The music geek's media organizer by HyprMusic on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:57PM (#45880830)
I've tried many times to find a nice UI for beets and somehow never come across this. It is exactly what I've been searching for all these years... Thanks for sharing!
Re:Beets: The music geek's media organizer by lrobinovitch on Monday November 10, 2025 @10:17PM (#45883781)
Nice! Have you figured out how to manage album art with beets-alternatives?