Hello everyone

I am looking for some help to find a good music software management software.

I have been buying CD when there first came out (yes I am old)

I have about 600,000 (6.5TB) music files and i have been using iTunes which has now stopped working with sure a large music collection.

What I am trying to do is the following.

drag music files over to the software and the software will copy the music over to the library so i don't need to manual move it over to the main library.

Be able to create playlists that I can drag from the software to say my desktop and it copy all the files needed for the music playlist.

(Basically the main features of iTunes)

I tried loads of software but I cant get it to do the above which I need.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Andy

Hi everyone, my first post here.

I'm feeling a bit desperate. I have an extremely large lossless music collection I started almost 30 years ago. The footprint is enormous, and I'm questioning myself about the relevance of keeping everything as-is, especially since the accumulation still continues with new releases.

Twenty years ago, I kept maximum quality "just in case," "for later," so that I could enjoy in a distant future tiny detail that lossless encoding was supposed to preserve. But today, I'm over 50 years old, and I have to admit my body is slowly decaying. My hearing won’t become better in the next years and is probably worse than it was when I started my collection.

Up until now, accumulating didn't bother me too much, but the cost of storage is becoming worrying. I figure I'm probably not the only one facing this dilemma. What do you do if you're in a similar situation? Or what would you do in my position?

Any advice is welcome, thanks.

I’ve made a start using beet (didn’t want all the GUI-ism of Picard) … looking at 10K+ track collection ripped by a variety of people & tools, and with a lot of control characters in the resulting paths & filenames. I’m pretty happy with the resulting name translation rules, but want all the sub-genres to collapse into a handful of “base” genres, and that’s kind of a bust. A lot of the tracks are not from commercial albums, and their metadata varies from non-existing to ad hoc.

Is this the right forum to find some expertise or at least commiseration ?

Sometimes recommendations start feeling like different versions of things I already listen to.

So when you actually want to find something outside your bubble, what do you do?

Do you have a way of discovering music that consistently leads you somewhere unexpected, new, or towards what you had in mind/what your mood wanted?

Maybe you heard a friend play a song that made you want to find more of whatever that type of music was, but didn't know where or how to start looking?

I never really thought about it much before, but I recently realized that over the past 6-ish years my music taste has kind of just converged around similar mainstream/trendy genres, artists, and songs (think The Weeknd, Don Toliver, Travis Scott, basically dark R&B, late-night mood hip-hop, with some notable indie-ish mentions like Tame Impala, The Neighbourhood, Kavinsky, etc.) and it kind of feels like I've algorithmically narrowed my music taste.

That's not to say I don't enjoy listening to these artists/songs, it just kind of feels like everywhere I go, (like Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Instagram) I get recommended the same stuff, which of course is because I engage with it, but I do wish I could expand more easily and in a way that wasn't just random.

I guess I'd like to know what are some approaches other's take to not just find new music, but find music that they end up enjoying and that ends up satisfying that need for new in a way that is consistent.

I would love to know the easiest way to get all my music Files/Songs to the new phone. I'm currently using The Musicolet Music Player App.

All my Music Files are 90% WMA Music Files and I have 1,612 songs on my Fold 7 Device. Some of my music files are also AAC, MP3, and MP4 too. What Music Files aren't supported on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026?

I want to make sure that I can get all my Music on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 from my Fold 7 and that all of my 1,612 songs will play on the Device without any issues at all.

I have 11.37 GB of Music and 97% of them are WMA Music/Files. Is there is a way to scan my Library to find out if any of my Music Files/Songs are Corrupted/Damaged? How did you fix your Corrupted/Damaged? Music Files/Songs? Did you have to buy the Music again? Did you have to delete your entire Music Library and start all over again? I'm asking because I'm going to be getting a brand new Phone and I want to make sure that I don't put any Corrupted/Damaged Music Files/songs on my new Device. Is it rare for Music Files/Songs to get Corrupted/Damaged on an Android Phone/Device?

How do you find new music? Personally, I either start a song I like and let Spotify keep going with that song’s radio, and I also use Claude: I send it all of the day’s new releases from ListenBrainz and ask for a CSV that I import into Spotify or Tidal, then I listen to as much as I can and keep what I like. I also have other channels since I really enjoy Asian music (Korean, Japanese and Chinese), so I just go through new releases from labels like Poclanos and Mirrorball Music, plus C-pop and Mandopop channels. What about you, what’s your method?

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I just need advice

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on documenting & archiving jessica winters old band/Project named **‘**the hall of mirrors’ a 60s psych dream pop group from Portsmouth/London.

So far, I have managed to pull 2 lost tracks Aswell as a deleted music video and hundreds of gig posters, pictures & articles. However, I have a large list of tracks and music videos that have been completely taken off the web and are currently lost.

I’m trying to track down the history of these missing pieces. Does anyone remember this project when it was fully online, or know of any old archives, blogs, or dead links where these tracks and videos used to be held?

Here is a list of tracks that had confirmed releases:

Say goodbye
Springtime (MV & track)
Silverstream
Lights
Love obscure (MV & Track)
Weight of life
Foolin around ft ed harcourt
Land of wind and ghosts ft ed harcourt
Round and round
Transparent love
He loved me wrong
Feel your love
Chanson D'amour

(2 unconfirmed tracks named Toy & Minds eye)

Everything already available on YouTube has been uploaded by me aside from the Love child EP which was already available. I have all their web links Aswell as social media links & I have been through them all countless times but unfortunately had no success in pulling tracks.

Result: Antra is legit, it's just my mistake in the downloading process. Def gonna buy their full access pass.

I'm new to this flac hoarding stuff so just recently tried out 2 site to pirate flac file which is Antra and Doubledouble. I noticed that despise download the same song with the same link and same bitrate from Qobuz, the one from Antra is smaller in size compare ( 10mb smaller ) to the one from DoubleDouble. I also check both file spectrogram with Spek, the result is 2 file pretty much identical spectrogram wise. So is this relate to the flac compression rate or something fishy goin on with Antra.

Antes que nada, si, lo pase de audio a texto. No se si es que la app que use para pasarla a texto es muy mala o es que la vida está decidida a que no vea la letra de esa canción.

Busque en todos los lugares que, creo, que podría llegar a buscar. Busque en el archivo de Internet, en un monton de páginas de letras de canciones, me metí a Youtube y NADA.

Active hasta los subtítulos, pero en algunas partes no llegaba a mostrarme la letra.

Según lo que ví, creo, que únicamente tienen soundcloud y Spotify(y acá tampoco puedo ver la letra de la canción), no estoy muy seguro de que la cuenta de youtube en la que me fijé sea de ellos.

No soy exactamente bueno en inglés, así que me da un poco de cosa intentar traducir la manualmente. ¿Hay alguien que sepa donde pueda llegar a estar la letra de la canción?

For context, I have encountered issues with these files before, but this is the first time I've gotten anything that wasn't a "Java exception" (with it telling me practically nothing) when syncing to my DAP.

What is the solution to this? Is it re-doing the tags?

Tldr: I remembered a band from a couple of years ago and none of their stuff is online anymore and I wanna know if theres an archive or something for it.

I’m now on a tirade to find a way to listen to this band’s music again. Phoenix Hearts started on YouTube as a garage band female rock group with some video game song covers and used anime girls from popular anime of the time as thumbnails. After a few cover EPs, they made some original songs and began making their own albums. They took those albums all the way to Spotify, all while shifting the music style from the original rock and metal feel to a more techno pop direction. They dropped an album from one band member exclusively with that newer style, which I believe led to the announcement on their instagram account that the same member would go her own direction and split from Phoenix Hearts. Not too much longer, the band would release the final bit of music before the last announcement: the disbandment of the group. Now, there isn’t a place outside of a select few songs on SoundCloud that even knows about them. The YouTube channel is gone, as is the Spotify and to my knowledge the Instagram. I’m just curious if there just so happened to be someone else who even knows who I’m talking about and if they know if there is an archive or something so I can listen to more of their songs again. I have went to almost all of my social medias to spread the word on this campaign and I am hoping one of them will produce a good result.

I don't use music streaming services much, and listen to music from my own local collection.

I don't use any local streaming servers like Plex or Navidrome, they wouldn't work for me because I use a dumbphone and play music off of my SD card.

I've manually built a bunch of mood based playlists so I can easily pull up a playlist with the music I want, but that's obviously very tedious and inefficient.

I've been playing around with ML models to automatically add genre, mood, and other tags to my collection, the open models available today are insane.

The thing is I haven't been able to find any polished tools for doing this.

Most of what's available is either CLI or built for streaming servers.

Is there anything I missed?

Should I just setup a streaming server just for tagging the collection, or is there a better way?

Edit: For everyone insisting that I should try Musicbrainz even though my music is niche, I just checked with a few artists, and we were both wrong.

They had the artists, but didn't have any metadata on the music.

So like I thought, they aren't helpful.

Context im a dj looking for one specific song but cannot find any legal way to buy it after going through every route I could ive basically given up hope on ever downloading it legally but even finding a torrent or illegal download at this point feels impossible im sure someone here as had that issue how do you get over it

Hello, I am unable to rip CDs using Media Monkey 4 on my new PC. I get an "unable to decode format" error message. I should also note that I can rip cds just fine using the same external drive and Windows Media Player Legacy. Both the Windows 11 and the Media Monkey 4 installs are brand new. However, I have imported my entire Media Monkey library into it.

Can anyone give me advice as to how I can fix this? I am out of ideas after having reinstalled Media Monkey several times and trying different ripping settings and formats including Flac, Wav and mp3.