beetbox/beets
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music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
25 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 6 stories, 19 comments · first 2014-03-03 · latest 2026-10-05
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…at once (see https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/1j0wnbz/need_... and dev comments on https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/5014 ) 2. Even when you do import a full album, it often struggles to match tracks. Here's part of a…
comment by nvme0n1p1 · 2026-10-05 · in Picard 3.0 -
…especially things like Rosetta-style cross-service mapping, were not really carried over. https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/1920 That's also why Spotify's current AI DJ is so frustrating. The problem is that "AI DJ" is not the same…
comment by DonHopkins · 2026-03-15 · in The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ -
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Beets 2.0 release: mpd compatible music library manager and MusicBrainz taggerstory by rjzzleep · 2024-06-17 · 0 comments
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Show HN: Synced lyrics database with a free, easy-to-use APIstory by fs0c13ty00 · 2024-02-23 · 1 comment
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…and just run `bandcamp` to download everything) 3. https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ 4. https://github.com/beetbox/beets
comment by deadbunny · 2023-10-11 · in "MP3 is dead" missed the real, much better story (2017) -
…https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/5285 https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-terra/issues/7981 https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/4340 I do think those concerns are legitimate. (I also think more tooling is a good thing!)
comment by vitus · 2022-04-29 · in We fixed f-string typos in popular Python repos -
…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…
comment by beepbooptheory · 2021-10-19 · in Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice -
…sounds like the developer is busy in real life. Here is the GitHub issue if anyone wants to help: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/3625
comment by nonbirithm · 2021-06-30 · in Beets: the music geek’s media organizer -
…latest release has some dependency problems that break it. If you want to install it: pip3 install https://github.com/beetbox/beets/tarball/master requests
comment by jwalton · 2021-06-30 · in Beets: the music geek’s media organizer -
Beets is a decent and battle-tested solution. It has a Discogs plugin as well. https://github.com/beetbox/beets it takes a while to take a large library, but that's mostly because of intractable problems with ambiguity in metadata…
comment by nonbirithm · 2020-11-04 · in Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs -
…been working nicely. Also I haven't used it myself, but there's a lot of positive chatter around https://github.com/beetbox/beets for tagging etc. I just prefer not to have my files touched in such an automated way :-) I rarely actually…
comment by AsyncAwait · 2019-03-07 · in 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012) -
…with other people, so you'd have to be prepared for that. [0] https://www.slsknet.org/news/ [1] https://github.com/beetbox/beets [2] https://www.plex.tv/
comment by nonbirithm · 2019-01-16 · in Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music -
…a cursory glance showed me some sqlite-specific code embedded in the main library portion [0]. 0 - https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/4f7c1c9beda6c2a5b0705e...
comment by kodablah · 2018-05-04 · in We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (2016) -
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Music library manager and MusicBrainz taggerstory by febin · 2017-09-17 · 0 comments
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Beets: the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeksstory by pmoriarty · 2017-09-04 · 0 comments
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…$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
comment by dmix · 2017-03-24 · in iTunes built, and then broke, my meticulous music-listening system -
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Beets: music library manager and MusicBrainz taggerstory by gkst · 2016-08-30 · 0 comments
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beet ( https://github.com/sampsyo/beets )
comment by _gdd_ · 2015-09-04 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program? -
have a look at beets < https://github.com/sampsyo/beets> , for the identification part it get its metadata from MusicBrainz/Discogs/filenames
comment by kraymer · 2015-03-09 · in Show HN: Discover what songs were used in YouTube videos -
…https://github.com/schneems/wicked https://github.com/satyr/coco https://github.com/satyr https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/546 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo https://github.com/rniemeyer/knockout-delegatedEvents…
comment by ghuntley · 2015-01-07 · in DMCA Copyright Complaint to Google -
…music geeks. New contributors are always welcome to tackle the growing list of issues/wishes < https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues?state=open> !
comment by kraymer · 2014-07-28 · in Ask HN: Lesser-known open source projects that need contributors? -
…systems music player for just this reason. https://github.com/davidhampgonsalves/beets-plugin-play https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/blob/master/beetsplug/play....
comment by soggypopsicle · 2014-04-23 · in My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player -
…that way when / if I commit to this. [0] https://code.google.com/p/beets/issues/detail?id=380 [1] https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/112
comment by aidos · 2014-03-04 · in Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger -
…plugins with a pull request [1]. [0] http://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/index.html [1] https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/blob/v1.3.3/docs/plugins/in...
comment by dewey · 2014-03-03 · in Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger -
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Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-taggerstory by dewey · 2014-03-03 · 115 comments