[solved] MP3 library management question, need advice

zippy · 2010-10-09 15:22:04

Let me preface this, I LOVE amarok 1.4. Not as a player, hundreds of apps can play MP3's, but its ability to organize/tag. I have a new dir of MP3s, I can open them into the playlist, tag/retag/run musicbrainz, then import them into the master directory that is organized alphabetically, by artist, then by album, with the ability to throw a cover image in the directory. I have yet to find any "music" app that has been able to anything near that.

I feel its time to move on, get the kde3.5 libs off my machine, and find a new player knowing that eventually amarok 1.4 will die. And afaik, the last time i checked none of its clones like clemetine or exaile has those features. I'm wondering if there is a standalone app that has those media management features. I'm ok with the media management being seperate from the player, since i dont need it as frequently as the player itself, but I'm not ok with 3 different apps replicating amaroks features, i.e a tagger/musicbrainz interface, a db app, a cover importer all seperate.

So is there anything out there that does that? I'm looking through AUR but i'm not really sure what to look for.

EDIT: Found this perfect solution - beets - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39577

Last edited by zippy (2010-10-10 15:07:27)

mangust · 2010-10-09 16:31:33

Try GCstar (http://www.gcstar.org/index.en.php). However, you can find other collection organizers, but have a look at gcstar.

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[solved] MP3 library management question, need advice

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Re: [solved] MP3 library management question, need advice

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