You can perform a lot of useful tricks using your libraries metadata. My subscription expired so now I have to wait until I have enough money to get another one. This has so much potential but I haven’t dug into it yet properly. I use it to analyse small sets of files for more planned sets This has the best key detection and mood detection algorithms at the moment. I disconnect my Serato interface, access the ‘Preperation’ tab and click Analyse all files to enable the beatgrid, BPM detect and song key detection for Serato DJ Pro.I then drag my macbook external hardrive icon within Serato DJ Pro’s ‘Files’ tab onto the ‘All audio’ section in Serato DJ Pro and it will import my files for me.I mirror my entire collection over to my DJing laptop external DJing hard drive over the network with rsync or robocopy.I then run beet dup -d to delete any duplicates that have arisen.This processes the unorganised files and moves them over to my samba share on my Linux server called ‘music’.I put all new music file to be processed in a samba share on my Linux server called ‘musicincoming’.mp3 – the file extension – usually either flac or mp3. Under The Influence – the full name of the track.The Chemical Brothers – the full name of the artist.Chemical Brothers, The – the artist with ‘The’ moved to the end for easy scanning through the artists list.S:\audio\music – my music collection top level folder.S:\audio\music\Chemical Brothers, The\Surrender\The Chemical Brothers - Under The Influence 135.mp3 I structure the music in my library like so: For example ‘The Chemical Brothers’ becomes ‘Chemical Brothers, The’ on the top level directory.īandcamp – Provide metadata from Bandcamp.įtintitle – This moves all the ‘featured artists’ in song names and albums into the title of the song.īadfiles – Run file integrity checkers on imported files to get rid of corrupt files The – For organising artists which contain the word ‘The’. Replaygain – for setting the gain level for the track intelligently in the file as analysed by mp3gain.exe Plugins: duplicates replaygain the ftintitle discogs bandcamp badfiles embedart fetchartĭefault: ‘%the/artist – $title $bpm’įlac: flac –test –warnings-as-errors –silent It is extremely powerful if you are comfortable with the commandline. Whether you do is up to you, just know that it is there. When something is not available for purchase, or I have an old MP3 rip from a CD and I want a FLAC, then I use Soulseek. I have spent SO much money on digital and physical copies of music over the years. I make a genuinely huge attempt to purchase all the music I play for my stream. Java -jar bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar -f=flac -j=1 -r=3 socialistsynthesis Remember to download the latest JDK NOT just the latest JRE otherwise it won’t work. If you want to use it you will have to replace ‘socialistsynthesis’ to be your bandcamp username. I use the following settings in a batch file which works reliably. It checks whether it has downloaded a purchase before as well, so you don’t need to re-download everything, just what has been added recently to your collection. It required a few tweaks to get to work reliably under Windows, and if you haven’t got any scripting skills then it will be a pain, but it has been hugely useful in syncing my Bandcamp purchases, of which I have over 200. It is commercial but is a very small cost and contains access to a lot of metadata services. I have found this to be the fastest and most reliable CD ripper. I use the following tools to organise my music library: ![]() My music library is around 24k files, mostly FLAC and some 320kbps MP3s.
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