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Tagging music in Jellyfin & Symphonium (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by SkinList@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.world 2 points 6 months 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.