FEfebin·Sep 17, 2017Submission
Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
3 points · Open discussionbeetbox
beets
Python2014–2026
beetbox / beets
beets
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
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music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesBeets: the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
2 points · Open discussionI used to obsessively manage my music like this on external HDs, syncing apps, and `beets` [1] to clean up the tags/album covers. But I've recently given this up in favour of Google Music and I'm in love.
I haven't stopped raving about the service since I started using it two months ago.
Just having your entire collection (and it has 99% of the music I'm looking for, something like 35 million full albums... just a simple search and button click away from adding to my library) and for stuff it doesn't have you can upload 50k songs, even stuff your pirate off private torrent trackers or w/e.
Getting new phones each year, new tablets, new laptops, etc I always ended up with a half-baked collection of music. I never set up a NAS to solve this unfortunately but now I don't feel the need to.
It's helped me rediscover so much music I've forgotte
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n over the years and lost from my collection during various moves.
Now I'm in the process of building playlists, rating songs, and rebuilding the playcounts. Not having to worry about ever losing them again is very reassuring!
I got a 90-day trial with my Nexus phone and it's only $9/month after that... but you can also use it for free with ads which includes the 50k songs.
[1] https://github.com/beetbox/beets