So with the most recent Spotify nonsense I’ve finally had enough and I’m going back to mp3. Unfortunately, I haven’t had to do this since Bush left office and I do not have the free time to manually sort and document every single file I have. I’ve been using MusicBrainz Picard but I don’t know if the learning curve is steeper than I have traction for or if it’s just really picky.

Anyone got suggestions on how to better manage all my jams? I’m trying to make it user friendly as I can for the family and so far I’m not winning lol

  • Chaser@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I’m using MusicBrainz Picard. However there are some tricks to spare you some nerves:

    • you can set weights to release types in the settings. Singles and compilations should have a lesser weight than albums.
    • Don’t add too much music at once. Or you’ll get crazy selecting the correct releases. I usually go with one artist a time. Especially for older artists I just add one album a time. You can enable the file Browser in the view settings, than you can just drop them in one after the other.
    • in the right pane you can just drag and drop whole releases to merge them together.
    • Also noticable is the rename feature in the settings. It’s just awesome!