I’m curious what plugins people like the most and find the most useful.

  • chrundle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I wish there was a way to input genres from RYM. I now manually copy-paste those when adding new albums.

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m interested to see what others are doing here. All I do is update tags with MusicBrains before dropping them on my NAS for Plex & Jellyfin.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’ve been maintaining a self-hosted music library for so long (30+ years now), there used to not be any tools for editing metadata. I used to have to go into file properties and manually edit the data for each individual MP3 file. Nowadays, I use Mp3tag to manually edit entire albums at a time. I have ADHD though (the hyperfixation kind), so I’ve literally dedicated thousands of hours to manually fixing metadata.

    I guess I never bothered to look for more advanced tools to auto-update metadata. I had to go in and manually fix stuff that updated automatically from the Internet in the past, so I guess I stopped trusting online databases. But they’ve really advanced since the last time I went searching for tools, and their databases are a lot more complete in this day and age. I’m gonna play around with some of these programs and see how well they work.

    I host my music library through Plex, then use Symfonium on my phone if I want to stream my Plex music remotely, just because I like their interface a little better than Plex’s.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      When you say Plex interface remotely, are you referring to the Plex app or PlexAmp app? I feel like PlexAmp fixed all of my complaints about listening to music through Plex (the same app I use for videos).

      • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I was referring to PlexAmp. It’s decent, works well, but I just liked the interface for Symfonium better. It seemed more functional than PlexAmp when I switched over to it.

        I actually haven’t used PlexAmp in a few years, so maybe it’s gotten better lately. I guess I’ll have to compare apps.

    • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Mp3tag and hours of fixing metadata used to be me, and then I just kind of… Ran out of time for that.

    • AtariDump@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      +1 for MP3Tag; it’s a wonderful tool and I’m overdue to donate to them.

      I also use Plex to host the music but use PlexAmp for playback; the additional features (Sonic Adventure / “DJs”/etc.) are great features.