[beepbooptheory]

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"

[88]

Beets’ strength is as a tagging solution more so than a way of accessing music. For the latter I use mpd.

From a tagging perspective beets works great. It’s hugely configurable out of the box and the fact it’s written in Python means it’s easy to extend or write plugins for your own purposes.

[uneekname]

FWIW beets has worked really well for me. I would recommend it to anyone who is comfortable enough in the command line to navigate its interface