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Can I sync "stars" for my music between devices without a server? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Maybe using Syncthing or MPD? I'm searching something to keep/share my votes or even maybe listen counts for desktop and mobile. Also it would be nice to create a backup for these data.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Depending on which format your music is in you can store a star rating in the metadata of the file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm using flacs and MusicBrainz to manage my collection. So should I edit my tags with Picard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Picard should be able to add the tag, flac support is great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The problem with this solution is to find an Android player capable to read/rate the tag

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Resilio sync works really well for my music collection to sync all the ratings. Using musicbee can also make autoplaylists to create playlist files for any app which might not support the ratings fully. You technically don't need servers but it's best to have some device always online. I haven't preferred syncthing, just doesn't work as cleanly I find.

I haven't found a completely cross platform listen counting method, but there're some plugins on musicbee to do CSV play recodlrding!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks for your tips. The smartphone is a good "always on device" for my Syncthing serverless setup. Edit: wait, resilio looks like syncthing but worse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Stars in what? In a specific app, or in file metadata? If it's metadata, syncthing will be fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm already a Syncthing fan but I haven't found an Android app capable to rate tracks editing the tag.