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Looking for an app to reorganize my old MP3 collection (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have this collection of mp3s from the 90s-2000s from before the streaming services era. Back when people used Winamp or XMMS to listen to their music. I backed up my music files in two places and they're both organized differently.

I need a tool to go through the whole thousands of files, find out what each track is (artist, album, track title, track number all that meta data), rename the file accordingly and apply all the metadata, then move the file in a certain directory structure.

Are there any music organizers out there that can do this? Or do I have to implement my own script?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use beets for exactly this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh very cool! Thank you! I'll definitely be trying this out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is the right answer. I specifically don't use beets because it does this, and (1) I have things organized how I like, and (2) I've changed music servers a half dozen times in the past decade and am leery of an app that has to "own" the library.

But the reasons I don't use it are exactly the reasons you're looking for, and it sounds like a perfect fit for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hahahaha! Great then! :)