I’ve been lurking here for a while, trying to learn and set up my own stuff. I’m starting off with music. I have a few thousand files in different formats and plenty of duplicates.

I already have an Emby server set up and it works very well.

However, is there a music manager that will help me find and eliminate duplicates?

I’m using Linux Mint and I’m still figuring out how to set up the various users and groups so that the software can access where my music is stored.

I’m thinking Lidarr but - as mentioned - something about setting up users and a media group and doing the permissions is not clicking.

For Emby to work, I’ve made the music directory a shared location and opened guest access.

Any pointers to step by step guides on any of this would be very helpful as well.

  • Ace! _SL/SEnglish
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    6 months ago

    For duplicates dupeGuru’s Music Mode should suffice (don’t be overly aggressive when batch deleting files!)

    Then tag and sort them with MusicBrainz Picard (again, take it slow. Picard is great and all but not every automated match is correct and I always check mine if they’re correct)

    After doing that start taking notes while listening to your Music in case you detect something is wrong (missed duplicate, wrong/partial metadata, etc) which allows you to fix these errors later on

    I’d also recommend you do backups along the way because dupeGurus and Picards changes can’t be undone and as a beginner you’re likely to do mistakes till your accustomed to the process

    That’s what I did and will continue to do with my 1500 songs (for now)

    I also prefer to sync my music from my PC to my phone via rsync (any sync application should suffice). But that’s just me, because imo offline playback is the way to go

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Thank you very much for the response! I want to do offline on my phone as well. The Emby server is for me and a couple of friends plus I have been wanting to learn more about media servers and all the -arrs

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        There’s one additional problem with Picard and bands with a long history that have released the same song on multiple albums and compilations, it won’t make much of an effort to group them in as few albums as possible. You will end up with songs spread across many distinct albums. Sometimes it’s not even an album of the original artist but multi-artist compilations like “The sound of the 90s” and so on.