picard

I appreciate all these players and server thingeys and what not, but what is extremely needed right now is a robust tagger, library db type thing. As far as I know, there are two solutions beets https://github.com/beetbox/beets and picard https://github.com/metabrainz/picard. Beets is maintained, but relies on plugins which are not; but mainly it is slow as to be unusable for a decent size library. Picard is better, but limited in functionality (I want it to have a persistent db of my music too). I just want a thin wrapper around an sqlite db that can do rudimentary tag detection and have functionality like "Import this folder into my library, moving the files and adding the songs to the table"

Like others I've settled with MusicBrainz Picard https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ I prefer GUIs for some reason when it comes to music organisation (GitHub repo https://github.com/metabrainz/picard). Beets is great and powerful but if you overlook something it's easy to mess up your library, but any serious music collector (hopefully) has backups. Other (GUI) alternatives I've tried: MP3TAG (free) https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ I didn't see much value over using Picard. Bliss (paid) https://www.blisshq.com/ Really nice, but was way too slow for me. MediaMonkey if you're on Windows https://www.mediamonkey.com/ Sometimes, in certain niches open source software dominates and really is better than the closed source paid software counterparts. Don't believe the (marketing) hype!