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I've started using beets to manage my music library, but it doesn't work well with jellyfin. As you can see, it creates about a million artists off of features, and this makes it hard to use. I can't find a way to fix this in beets, so I'm considering switching, but haven't found any proper alternatives. Do you guys solve this in any way, or use a different management software that is more standard? Thank you!

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago

I tried Jellyfin for music in addition to tv and movies, but ended up dropping that part. I set up Navidrome with beets - the adjustment is using album artist instead of just artist everywhere.

Full stack:

  • Navidrome server
  • beets for management
  • Feishin client (local on my desktop, though I do have it hosted too for the hell of it)
  • Symfonium (mobile app, abour $6 but absolutely worth it)
  • Lidarr
  • slskd
  • Soularr (integrates the two above - it's a bit hacky but it works fairly well)
[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Not sure if you already know this, but there is a plugin called "Tubifarry" for Lidarr, that directly integrates slskd as an indexer and download client in Lidarr. I've recently switched from Soularr to the plugin and it works really well. In combination with the "Search Sniper" Import List you can still get that random backfill behavior of Soularr.

Here is some general information on lidarr Plugins. You have to use a special branch/image. There's also a link to Tubifarry at the bottom of the page.

https://wiki.servarr.com/lidarr/plugins

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I set this up since this reply and it's phenomenal, what a difference compared to the old way. Thanks a ton for the rec

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Wow I've been looking for a way to integrate soulseek into Lidarr that wasn't a hacky mess for a while now. This is awesome, thanks for posting this.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Oh shit I hadn't heard of this one. Soularr feels kind of like a hack and is annoying to wrangle, so a direct integration would be huge.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I didnt know soulseek integration with lidarr was possible.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I am also using Navidrome and Symfonium. It's about as good as local library playback can get! Thanks for a new one to try Feishin, never heard of it before. I have tried setting up Lidarr, but I never got it to grab stuff and rename it to what i like, so I stopped. I'm sure I probably could, but I didn't want to spend the time trying.

My current setup is grab from Orpheus or redacted, run it through program generically called tagscanner (been using it for years and love it) then drop everything into musicbrainz Picard with custom setup to only grab genres for everything and will attach up to 5 different ones. From there, i move everything to the music library by artist and subfolder for albums. Once there, i load Musicbee, which is my pc app of choice because of the customization and audio playback quality. Once there, if any album art is missing, it's easily discoverable and then loaded into navidrome.

The hardest part was discovering that I should organize properly after a decade of collecting music, and it took months to reorganize and tag everything properly. I had to do that once more with genres. Once I figured out how to automate that and would take chunks at a time and have it do it over days, which also took months. It's been about 10 years of me doing it this way and has worked great if not a bit tedious.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This is the way

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