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Beets tips & config
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i fucked with beets importing my measly 20 thousand songs over a weekend or so and it was uhh
miserable for a person with insane ADHD
i couldnt pay attention for shit
nowadays, if something pops up in a navidrome smart playlist or isn't found in the genre it should be, i will open up that whole folder in picard and go to town.
I can blast one artist into submission, but trying to spend all day doing it, artist after artist, my brain melts.
I suppose I should take another look at Picard as well. For a lot of years, I've relied on MP3tag for everything. It's just a simple interface, I know how to make it do what I want. I like managing tags.
But I figure with beets, I can take care of the tagging and some things I've been doing manually or have other processes for - like downloading lyrics and applying ReplayGain information.
My plan with beets is to just take it an artist at a time, see how it goes, and then if I can't find a groove or don't like what it's doing, I can give up.
heck your post already had me check if beets can be installed on bazzite, which, yay python!
I started trying to see how hard it would be to get started but don't have the time today to get reacquainted with it lol
I've switched to Picard, too. I do think for a task like this a GUI makes a big difference. I tried with beets, but you really have to do a lot of research in advance to understand what it is doing and the settings you need, and it's not one-size-fits-all.
If you don't have a lot of indie stuff, and you primarily have whole albums, AND you have the patience to go through your entire library one track at a time, then I'm sure it works fine.
The advantage of Picard is that you can see many tracks at a glance to focus on the ones that need attention. Plus you can pause at any time and pick up where you left off.
I now do almost all of this through Strawberry, which has Picard built in.
"I tried with beets, but you really have to do a lot of research in advance to understand what it is doing and the settings you need, and it’s not one-size-fits-all."
This is exactly how it's gone for me in the past. This is maybe my 3rd or 4th attempt at it, but I finally feel like I'm getting a handle on it.
i did not know about strawberry having this functionalityyyyyyyy!!
thanks for the tip!