Music Collection Metadata

[LoudLemur]

We are in a Cambrian Explosion of AI at the moment and a lot of media is sure to be created. Properly tagging it will likely be of value. We now have AI tools that can create music. If we are producing content and self hosting it too, what tools and workflows help to keep evrything nicely organized?

The musicbrainz picard project still seems to be going.

What would you suggest?

For example, bunging some random .mp3 files together and throwing in some ai artwork into a folder won't show very well on a Cloudron deployed navidrome.

https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-metadata
https://www.justmastering.com/article-embeddingmetadata.php

[jdaviescoates]

@LoudLemur said in Music Collection Metadata:

musicbrainz picard project still seems to be going.

I both contribute to and use that a lot

[Efianvot]

Yeah, Beets is great for tagging and organizing, and it helps a lot with managing large collections. If you want more control over metadata and making sure everything stays consistent across apps, integrating DAM systems with existing workflows can save you tons of time. It keeps everything in sync and avoids messy duplicates. Beets' plugins make it even more flexible, so it's a solid choice for handling bigger libraries efficiently.

[jdaviescoates]

@Efianvot yeah I use MusicBrainz and very often use various userscripts to import missing data into it too via Discogs, Bandcamp, Spotify etc

[necrevistonnezr]

Yeah, it’s mind-boggling that this is still a problem unsolved. MusicBrainz is ok for some music styles but seriously shite for e.g. electronic music between 1990-2000, in particular for whitelabel releases… I use MP3Tag with various scripts and pull from the sources mentioned above as well as Beatport and Traxsource…