toscanino / music-library-utils

Music management tips & tricks

music-library-utils

Minimalist code & tricks to better manage your DJ library.

Tools

• Rekordbox($100 license)
• Metadatics (Appstore - $15)

Ingestion steps

• Download tracks in /downloads
• Run pipe.sh in /raw sub-folder of /music
• Metadatics: open raw folder, clean-up filenames & tags
• Rekordbox: re-import the /raw sub-folder as a playlist
• Add tags to each track, include "Fresh" tag in "Played At" category - don't dispatch in playlists yet as this would be lost
• Tracks are ready: move raw tracks to music
• Rekordbox: re-import music folder as playlist

Tags

• Genre: sub-categories based on your prefered styles
• Component: singular sound element
• Situation: proper context
• Played At: personal historical record

Notes

• Check the rekordbox setting: Write the value to ID3 tag
• Tags become duplicated in the comment field with is not rekordbox-specific
• Consider creating a symbolic link for easier usage: ln pipeline_move-and-scrape.sh ~/Music/music/raw/scripts/pipeline_move-and-scrape.sh
• Run mv raw/*.mp3 ../ for moving things around

Additional tools

• keyfinder is an alternative to find the key & write it to tag
• MusicBrainz Picard to access richer meta data & more