

Some of the challenges that I had while doing all of this included:

(Songkong is a licensed and for pay product) Created a docker registry so that I can keep the docker image local.Moved over the Ogg2MP3 and Flac2Mp3 scripts.Ensured that Songkong could operate from within the Docker container.Opened up X forwarding to test out SongKong (It’s mainly an X application, that has the possibility of a command line tool).Created the Dockerfile and outlined the general steps used.SongKong ()- For file formatting, metadata correction, and metadata improvements (From an online source).This project is intended to automatically standardize files into a human-friendly collection without user intervention. I found the JThink tools (SongKong and Jaikoz) to be very helpful with keeping an organized music collection. Thankfully there are a few tools to help with that. That means that a large collection can get unwieldy very quickly. The downside to managing your own music collection is that you’re subject to managing the collection yourself.

Also, having your own collection it’s a lot easier to move the collection to other devices without having the direct integration (such as my car stereo). They’re a great German band, but they haven’t hit the US market. For example, in most US music services you can’t find the band Die Toten Hosen.

This meant that I could manage my own collection, and that I wasn’t fixed to a service that would eat up all of my data and that I could listen to what I wanted. It's not as automatic as pressing play, but then again I tell myself that I've survived cassette tape duplicating to listen to stuff, this is actually 1000x better.Before ITunes and online music stores/streaming-options came arround, you had to build up a digital music collection if you wanted to load an MP3 player with it. If that fails too, then keep the untagged/unsorted tracks in a different place, and whenever I find myself with absolutely nothing to do I just research them w/ album and artist name and tag/sort them manually with Mp3tag I check with Discogs, see if they have metadata for it, if yes then tag it and use Mp3tag's sorting to move the tracks to my main library If not, get everything that Lidarr didn't already tag and sort, and pass it to Mp3tag. If Lidarr recognizes the tracks, tags them properly and moves them to my main library etc, problem solved Gather everything up from a certain artist, and throw it at Lidarr. My library also contains a lot of stuff that aren't at MB, or Discogs. I've recently realized that my music hoarding is getting out of control, since there's thousands of tracks being added every year, and I can't possibly find the time to listen to them all but I do want to keep them. I just figured you guys would know best here. But I know I want every last song because I try to keep complete discographies of my favorite artists and do plan on getting to everything someday.ĭoes anyone have any suggestions? I've been trying to do this for months and the collection is growing by the day! If not, thats' fine. It wouldn't be an exaggeration for me to say that I haven't even heard over 95% of the music I even have. I'm proud of the library I've built up so far but have no way to enjoy it because I have a ton of files basically sitting in a folder with no metadata and ridiculous file names (left untouched from the source). My collection consists of unreleased music which is not found on streaming services, including but not limited to alternate versions of existing songs and completely unheard songs. My music will not be detected and appropriately tagged because there's nothing to match it to. The problem, is that the entirely of my music collection is not in the MusicBrainz database. I have tens of thousands of songs in my collection and I've heard a lot of people use MusicBrainz for libraries of a such a size (or any size). I'm looking for suggestions on how I can organize my music in a somewhat automated way.
