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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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  1. …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
  2. …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
  3. …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)
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. 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
  9. …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)
  10. …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
  11. …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)
  12. …$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
  13. beet ( https://github.com/sampsyo/beets )
    comment by _gdd_ · 2015-09-04 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?
  14. 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
  15. …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
  16. …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?
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. …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