Comment by antihero
24 days ago
For Musicbrainz I use beets to import/organise the songs into my library directory structure.
For stuff not on mb I use fb2k as it has a fairly decent tagger and move it to the local external drive, which is synced to the server.
At home I usually just use fb2k to play to my sound system via an interface, and on the go I use play:Sub connected to the navidrome instance transcoded to 160k OPUS (initially over tailscale but now via portforward/cloudflare and soon cloudflare tunnel)
I use FB2k with picard and MB. If its not in the MB, I add it myself. With bookmarklests and picard this is very fast process.
Beets is too much work. I don't always have shell around nor I want to remote for this. This thing I use works on whatever machine I am currently.
I use jelly for convenience to connect to my media server when I am not at home. At home, I always use foobar2k which simply rocks for precise search and randomly generated lists (I even use SQL for this, via plugin). Its playing capabilities are far from any jelly like streaming server. Jelly is very bad at non-typical case, you can't even share a link to the current playlist and if left alone, after a day or two I have to reload jelly home page and go from there again, as anything that was left in the browser for a couple of days stops working until I reload from home.
I used to add stuff to MB but it's a bit involved as a process and honestly I'm too lazy a lot of the time. Picard is fine as a GUI tagger but I like foo.
If I can't pick what to listen to I quite like radiooooo, Radio Paradise, Radio Meuh, etc.