I have a Jellyfin environment that I often access remotely via Tailscale and a companion app (Jellyfin for Android, Findroid, Symphonium, etc). Lately I have been wanting to sort my Jellyfin-hosted music library using styles, moods, genres, etc to make some of my smaller albums more visible in my library.

I don’t want to sit at my PC for hours sorting through tags for each album/artist/track though. I would prefer if I could tag an album/track/etc with a genre, mood, or style tag while I am browsing my library from a companion app via Tailscale.

Does anyone have a solution that would enable this? Perhaps someone has solved this in an even better way than I have envisioned here.

More generally, how do you all tag your music libraries? Any tips?

  • starshipwinepineapple@programming.devEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Here’s some tools i used and my experience with them

    • beets: very powerful CLI tool. Has a learning curve but can go through your whole music folder, automatically tag stuff it is confident in and prompt you when it’s not sure.
    • musicbrainz picard: really powerful gui. Can add a bunch of folders, group them by album and have it detect the right albums.
    • kde kid3: simple gui app that if all you’re looking for is basic tag input then it makes it super easy to manually tag a bunch of content all at the same time.

    I personally used all three of these. Beets as first pass that got me pretty far. Music brainz to fill in a lot of holes. And kid3 when i just wanted to do a bunch of manual updates

    • SkinList@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Thanks for the suggestions! I have already used MusicBrainz Picard to identify most of the media in my library. It is just the somewhat subjective mood and style tags that didnt get populated from Picard.

      I may give Beets a go and see how far I get. If it isn’t what I’m after, it sounds like kde kid3 will probably get the job done.

  • ryokimball@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 days ago

    My entire music library must pass through beets first. If it’s not automatically tagged I will manually search, and finally (esp for locals’ or friends’ music) I will manually tag it using eyeD3 and import through beets as l-is.

    • darkreader2636@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      If you’re willing to copy everything to your phone musicolet can do wonders. It has bulk-tagging, auto-complete from other tags, built-in lyrics support and very good album art picker

  • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I use puddletag to bulk-change i.e. the album name or album artist. After tagging I use it to change the filename, done.