I’m working on building a personal alternative to Spotify and YouTube Music and I’ve hit two roadblocks.

  1. Genre labeling in my library is inconsistent and manually updating 2500+ MP3s isn’t feasible. I’ve tried using beets with the LastFM plugin in quiet mode but no luck. Any ideas?

  2. Where can I bulk download diverse music catalogs? I’ve snagged some ‘top 90s/80s/hiphop/etc’ collections, but 2500 songs don’t go far.

What I miss about Spotify and YouTube Music is their ability to auto-play similar tunes based on my current selection. Any advice would be appreciated.

  • gim@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Soul seek to download files (works all the time) and musicbrains Picard to edit metadata en made (works most of the time, some manual editing will be necessary).

    As for listening, I use musicbee on pc. It looks and feels like the itunes pc application used to. If I’m out and about, I have a usb stick with music plugged into my car console and a micro sd card with music in my psp.

    This is what works for me and may not be ideal for you. Let me know what works :)