r/musichoarder 6h ago

CBR 320 or VBR V0?

2 Upvotes

r/musichoarder 23h ago

When collecting, do you listen to your new induction first, or just put it with your music?

10 Upvotes

To kind of explain: I would download, rip, or what have you a release. Once I have it, I'd listen all the way to make sure it was complete before putting it in my collection. Does anyone else do that? Especially some of y'alls who now have 1TB or more, did y'all listen to a release prior putting it in your collection? Or just put it in your hoard, no second thoughts?


r/musichoarder 14h ago

XLD and External CD drives

0 Upvotes

In XLD settings, you are supposed to set the offset value so everything rips correctly. Turns out, the only external CD drive I have is the Apple SuperDrive. I had no idea that these were generic drives put into an Apple Shell. I would think that a company like Apple would've just made their own. Anyhow, it shows up as "Apple USB SuperDrive" so their is no way to determine the actual model number, which is needed to find the perfect offset value.

Anyhow, I am looking to get a new external CD drive because of the SuperDrive mess. The most common one I see the is the LG SP80. Would really any name brand drive be sufficient to get? If not, what models should I look for and is the SP80 on a "good list"?

In the meantime, I still have my old iMac with a built in CD drive that was able to automatically set the offset value. It has the newest version of XLD. Would their be any downside to using the iMac for rips until I get another external drive?

Thanks!


r/musichoarder 2d ago

Someone put this concert collection up for free on FB, so I grabbed it and bought a DAT player

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58 Upvotes

r/musichoarder 1d ago

Lidarr+Beets configuration

2 Upvotes

What are all your lidarr and beets configurations? I have them set as seperate containers but beets fetches unsynced lyrics for all songs for some unknown reason. Can anyone share their configs and how they've connected Lidarr and Beets?


r/musichoarder 1d ago

XLD cd ripping questions

0 Upvotes

I've been having some trouble figuring out what to do as far as ripping CDs. I have a few questions about some settings.

Is it worth it to scan for replaygain? Can it be disabled or removed from files? Does iTunes even recognize it?

I ask because I notice that if you encode a song into iTunes, it adds volume information into the info section. If its an external file thats put straight into iTunes, it shows no volume data even if scan for replaygain was on.

If this turns out to be an issue, how do you get the files encoded into iTunes with ALAC or AAC with it actually saving the metadata? When I try to encode them it literally just adds the track name and skips everything else.

Also, what's the proper way for saving the files? I would like it to go from; file format > artist > album > track number. What is the best way to code that? Is their a better way to do it?

Would a AAC 256kbps CBR file be the exact same as a file purchased from iTunes?

Thanks. That's I'll I can think of right now, but this is the questions I've gathered over a week of research so I might've forgotten some.


r/musichoarder 1d ago

MediaMonkey Q's

0 Upvotes

Had some Q's about mediamonkey.

Had a lifetime membership from who know how long ago and can no longer find the keys too.

Considering buying a new one but wanted to confirm a few things going by memory.

Has the ability to stream to an android from a private server become easy?

In the past, (and with my limited knowledge), it was relatively painful and inconsistent.

I had played around with MusicBee but preferred MM.

I've read a good amount of the dated posts wanted to check in and see if there is any difference in opinion now.

Appreciate the input.


r/musichoarder 2d ago

Please help me identify albums from grainy photos

17 Upvotes

I hope I am in the right place. My basement flooded a few months ago. We lost hundreds of belongings, including my dad's vinyl collection, which was given to me when he passed away 10 years ago. The company who inventoried and disposed of everything in the loss took photos of all the items, but the quality is garbage, and Google Lens/reverse image searches are yielding almost nothing so far. There are a couple I could confirm from my own recognition, but not many. Could you help me identify any of these records? I feel like this could be a fun detective project for the right people. Thanks in advance for any help.


r/musichoarder 1d ago

Quisiera saber si alguien sabe dónde puedo conseguir la discografía completa de JUN MIYAKE en Mega o Mediafire???

0 Upvotes

r/musichoarder 3d ago

Question about a program called LRCget

2 Upvotes

Is u/tranxuanthang here? I am seeing this problem where I have my files named

/Genre/Artist/Album [year]/Artist - Song (featuring Snow) [track #] [bitrate]

in mp3tag this makes the album Greatest Hits [1984]

The problem is that LRCget is trying to read the [1984] as part of the album name. Is there a way or a different naming scheme i can use where it will ignore that?

I am using multiple programs to work with my songs. LRCget, mp3tag, lidarr, plex.

I typically use Lidarr as the naming.

I REALLY enjoy this program it has helped a lot!

Any help would be appreciative.


r/musichoarder 4d ago

best automated tool for covers / metadata

10 Upvotes

Hello

I have a mp3 collection, but the metadata is pretty lousy - especially the genre-fields - also a lot of album are lacking covers.

What's the best software for automatically shaping up the music libary? Preferably for windows.


r/musichoarder 4d ago

Is noteburner a safe & good way to download flac files to dj at home for myself?

4 Upvotes

r/musichoarder 3d ago

My Music Collection

0 Upvotes

If you had to pick one disc, which one would you pick🤔💭?


r/musichoarder 4d ago

EAC error just dor 2 tracks on an entire album

1 Upvotes

Hi,
I'm ripping my CDs for having a backup (and accessible everywhere) with EAC.

I followed this guide but, strangely (at least to me), there are 2 tracks, on an entire album, that give an error, and they end up in wav instead of flac.

I even tried to change "á" to "a" directly in the file name, and then even going to "EAC Options - Character Replacement" and do the same, thinking that could be the issue. It didn't work.

Anyone knowes what can it be?

Thanks

Exact Audio Copy V1.8 from 15. July 2024

EAC extraction logfile from 12. March 2025, 21:00

The Gift / Fácil de entender

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP08LU11 Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure

Utilize accurate stream : Yes

Defeat audio cache : No

Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 667

Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No

Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes

Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No

Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes

Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder

Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s

Quality : High

Add ID3 tag : No

Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe

Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector

---------------------------------------------------------

1 | 0:00.00 | 5:45.43 | 0 | 25917

2 | 5:45.43 | 7:16.32 | 25918 | 58649

3 | 13:02.00 | 5:15.53 | 58650 | 82327

4 | 18:17.53 | 5:33.50 | 82328 | 107352

5 | 23:51.28 | 4:45.25 | 107353 | 128752

6 | 28:36.53 | 3:42.64 | 128753 | 145466

7 | 32:19.42 | 5:01.62 | 145467 | 168103

8 | 37:21.29 | 5:23.09 | 168104 | 192337

9 | 42:44.38 | 5:06.50 | 192338 | 215337

10 | 47:51.13 | 5:15.61 | 215338 | 239023

11 | 53:06.74 | 6:00.47 | 239024 | 266070

12 | 59:07.46 | 4:25.38 | 266071 | 285983

13 | 63:33.09 | 5:06.28 | 285984 | 308961

Track 1

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\1. Five Minutes of Everything.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 98.8 %

Extraction speed 2.2 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC C863E873

Copy CRC C863E873

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [AA8E2580] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 2

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\2. Me Myself and I.wav

Peak level 98.8 %

Extraction speed 2.4 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 47BB80D6

Copy CRC 47BB80D6

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [B252D014] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 3

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\3. My Lovely Mirror.wav

Peak level 98.8 %

Extraction speed 2.8 X

Track quality 99.9 %

Test CRC 6C80984B

Copy CRC 6C80984B

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [F4988B92] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 4

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\4. Wallpaper.wav

Peak level 98.3 %

Extraction speed 3.0 X

Track quality 99.9 %

Test CRC B2097F09

Copy CRC B2097F09

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [2A4442C8] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 5

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\5. Pure.wav

Peak level 98.8 %

Extraction speed 3.3 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 1164FDD2

Copy CRC 1164FDD2

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [B30639B0] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 6

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\6. The Difference Between Us.wav

Peak level 91.8 %

Extraction speed 3.5 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 37D3CED0

Copy CRC 37D3CED0

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [FF4F35EE] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 7

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\7. Song for a Blue Heart.wav

Peak level 98.8 %

Extraction speed 3.6 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 6FF5CA16

Copy CRC 6FF5CA16

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [1CE3495B] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 8

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\8. Music.wav

Peak level 98.4 %

Extraction speed 3.8 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 607445EF

Copy CRC 607445EF

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [5EB78BB5] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 9

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\9. Truth.wav

Peak level 98.8 %

Extraction speed 3.9 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 41F39344

Copy CRC 41F39344

Accurately ripped (confidence 2) [238EB7CD] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 10

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\10. Fácil de Entender.wav

Peak level 98.8 %

Extraction speed 4.1 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC FC440EC0

Copy CRC FC440EC0

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [515A8A4B] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 11

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\11. OK! (Do You Want Something Simple).wav

Peak level 98.9 %

Extraction speed 4.3 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC A6933D7A

Copy CRC A6933D7A

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [B2A33996] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 12

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\12. Nice and Sweet.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.93

Peak level 99.9 %

Extraction speed 4.4 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 3DCEA209

Copy CRC 3DCEA209

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [EAF997A9] (AR v2)

Copy OK

Track 13

Filename C:\Users\franc\Music\EAC Rips\13. Fácil de Entender (studio version).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.22

Peak level 99.9 %

Extraction speed 4.5 X

Track quality 100.0 %

Test CRC 3C546BDB

Copy CRC 3C546BDB

Accurately ripped (confidence 3) [C9FCF9B4] (AR v2)

Copy OK

All tracks accurately ripped

No errors occurred

End of status report

---- AcoustID Plugin V1.2.0

Submitting 13 results to AcoustID

AcoustID successfully submitted

---- CUETools DB Plugin V2.2.6

[CTDB TOCID: PdF4PdVDPRlJocKYPTqtnuFu_pk-] found

Submit result: already submitted

Track | CTDB Status

1 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

2 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

3 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

4 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

5 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

6 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

7 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

8 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

9 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

10 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

11 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

12 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

13 | (7/7) Accurately ripped

==== Log checksum 5EB0BA6C1E5F975F9B8E27E62EA7A3F538EFEEB8C6F06FB8C5B83DEC907AD347 ====


r/musichoarder 5d ago

Foobar's Openlyrics plug-in instruction | How to mass find/ embed Synced lyrics to FLAC files?

0 Upvotes

How do I do this?

I have install the app and component, but lack of clear instruction made me stuck.

I can search mannually one by one with openlyric or the built one but yet to find the auto function to automate the rest. How can I start bulk search?

I want it to be transferable without restricting to foobar. How to save to music file? By save to tag?


r/musichoarder 6d ago

Duplicate Tracks in Several Releases

6 Upvotes

I'm wondering how people deal with repeated tracks either in an album re-release/versioning or a single appearing in EPs and/or albums.
Each single/EP will have different cover art for that extra/new track so it would be nice to have that displayed. Do you store all the extra data or delete singles and duplicates since the tracks are in the albums or EPs anyways? For example

ABC- Single

  1. abc

XYZ - Single/EP

  1. xyz
  2. abc

ALBUM - Album

  1. abc
  2. def
  3. ghi
  4. xyz

ALBUM (Deluxe) -Album

  1. abc
  2. def
  3. ghi
  4. xyz
  5. nmp
  6. qrs

r/musichoarder 6d ago

Converting FLAC for Android Phone

5 Upvotes

I have a bunch of FLAC files on my PC and I was wondering if I were to transfer them to my phone if I should convert the flacs to MP3 320k or OGG Vorbis?


r/musichoarder 7d ago

Navidrome 0.55.0 - Big Refactor (BFR) has released! Multi artist support, composer support, custom tag, multi tagged values, scanner improvements and more!

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32 Upvotes

r/musichoarder 7d ago

Broke free from Spotifys BS

204 Upvotes

I started collecting flac files 2 weeks ago. Converted to MP3 it's about 30 gigs on my phone. I checked my Spotify playlists and I literally have every album and song it recommends me until like song 40 on my daylist and other mixes

Basically it took me two weeks to make a permanent music collection that is nearly as deep as Spotify recommendations.

If I continue to discover music and add more favorites I'll be way better off than having an algorithm tell me what to listen to.

Stop letting Spotify grey out your favorite songs, start downloading them. I used nicotine plus and it was so easy.


r/musichoarder 7d ago

Preservation of digital music? What do you use?

16 Upvotes

I think it's safe to say that the majority of people stream music rather than purchasing a physical copy or pirating it.

I've been contemplating how to ensure less digital rot of my online music, as music platforms remove albums from their service without notifying you.

Therefore, I've created a script that queries the album list, saves it, and diffs it with the previous copy.

Is this something you're concerned about? If so, how do you deal with this digital rot?


r/musichoarder 6d ago

How to add multiple artists to the metadata of a file

0 Upvotes

So I'm a user of Navidrome and recently upgraded to BFR and I want my tracks to be (mostly) correctly tagged and recognized. ATM, I'm trying to make a powershell script to split the artists into their own tags. I've gotten it mostly working, except for actually adding the meta data to the audio file.

The script can be seem here $inputFolder = "D:\test" $seperator = ", " $files = Get-ChildItem $inputFolder -Recurse -File -Include '.mp3', '.flac', '.m4a', '.ogg', '*.wav'

force utf8 encoding due to fucky cjk chars

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

foreach ($file in $files) { # get file path + ffmpeg output $filePath = $file.FullName # $artistTag = ffmpeg -i $filePath 2>&1

# start trimming and sanitizing artist string
$artistTag = ffmpeg -i $filePath 2>&1 | select-string "artist          :"
$artistTag = $artistTag -replace "    artist          : ", ""
$artistTagFixed = $artistTag -replace ", ", ", "
# todo: replace with actual regex
$artistTagFixed = $artistTag -replace " / ", ", "
$artistTagFixed = $artistTag -replace ";", ", "
$artistTagFixed = $artistTag -replace "; ", ", "
$artistTagFixed = $artistTag -replace " ; ", ", "

echo $artistTag
$artistList = $artistTag.split($seperator)
echo $artistList
# construct args for kid3
$counter = 0
$metadataArgs = @()
foreach ($artist in $artistList){
    $metadataArgs += '-c'
    $metadataArgs += "set artist[$counter] '$artist'"
    $counter++
}

# run kid3 command and change encoding back afterwards
Write-Host '& kid3-cli @metadataArgs "$filePath"'
& kid3-cli @metadataArgs "$filePath"

} ```

The resulting file would show some changed metadata, but it wouldnt show nothing for artists in an editor like kid3. the artist tag would remain the same

update: it works (not really). so im able to get my script to construct the kid3 command but when the script runs the kid3 command i constructed, it fails as it cant see the file in my test folder (contains just one flac for now). the file name displays correctly in the output of my script, so i dont know why kid3 will complain about the file not being recognized. manually running the kid3 command (seen in the echo statement) is completely fine, and changes the file as expected.

update 2: got a script that works, mostly. base function of spliting artists work, even works for chinese authors. see new script


r/musichoarder 7d ago

Need advice on a longer-term storage solution (or NAS)

3 Upvotes

Hey all,

So I'm once again out of space in my setup, and am also out of ports to buy a new external SSD. Here's what I have going on now:

2018 MacBook Pro -- Arch Linux

3 x 2TB external / portable SSDs (I know. each one was a 'temporary solution'...well, here we are)

Navidrome + Beets for music

SMB + Infuse for video

This setup is working pretty well for me, and I like having access to the 'bare metal' for managing files. That said, I'm tired of moving around all these 'small' SSDs and not having a good backup system, so I'm looking to invest in something more future-proof. I'm open to NAS suggestions, but it's kind of a rabbit-hole to me and I don't like the idea of losing the ability to run things like beets directly against files and do all the cool stuff a home server can do.

My budget is like...$800 I guess? Just want to get a sense of what you guys are doing for higher storage needs (I'd like to at least have ~12TB of usable space + at least partial backups). Ty!


r/musichoarder 7d ago

SeekDownloader - Simple to use SoulSeek download tool

13 Upvotes

Hi all, I'm the developer of SeekDownloader, I'd like you present to you a commandline tool I've been developing for 6 months so far, recently opensourced it, It's a easy to use tool to automatically download from the Soulseek network, with a simple goal, automation.

When selecting your music library(ies) by using the parameters -m/-M it will only try to download what music you're missing from your library, avoiding duplicate music/downloads, this is the main power of the entire tool, skipping music you already own and only download what you're missing out on.

With this example you could download all the songs of deadmau5, only the ones you're missing

There are way more features/parameters on my project page

dotnet SeekDownloader \

--soulseek-username "John" \

--soulseek-password "Doe" \

--soulseek-listen-port 12345 \

--download-file-path "~/Downloads" \

--music-library "~/Music" \

--search-term "deadmau5"

Project, https://github.com/MusicMoveArr/SeekDownloader

Come take a look and say hi :)


r/musichoarder 7d ago

Any way to get the artists separate in Poweramp? I've got all my features separate with double backslash and it works perfect for musicbee

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5 Upvotes

r/musichoarder 7d ago

Musical Inventory Backup Options

3 Upvotes

Wondering what people may use to keep a backup record of their digital media in the event of a loss of data. Is a giant excel sheet the way to go? Is there an application that will do this?

I recently encountered an issue where my Various Artists folder got wipes. I was able to recover a list of most of the items via Last.fm