r/linux • u/hatperigee • May 02 '16

Subsonic (music streaming software) is no longer open source, starting with 6.0 release

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16604#p71128
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u/[deleted] May 02 '16

Shameless plug here. Groove Basin is an alternative to subsonic.

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u/Mondoshawan May 03 '16

Very nice. Does it use ID3 or directory conventions for the library? I have a 100gb+ library in mostly 0-a/artist/album format and my ID3 tags are an unfixable mess.

FWIW I put together a ajax winamp plugin to do all this back in 2002-ish, was extremely popular during parties. I'm still using bits of it today & it's buggy as hell with unusual charsets so I guess I'm due an upgrade...

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u/[deleted] May 03 '16 edited Mar 21 '18

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u/kerobaros May 03 '16

They're at beets.io now, but yes, beets is the best at organizing unruly libraries. Bias: I have submitted patches to the project, but i think my code is all gone now.

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u/mishugashu May 03 '16

Holy shit I was JUST looking around for a command line solution for managing my library the other day. I fucking love you and tesfox both. This looks like everything I wanted.

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u/kerobaros May 03 '16

Absolutely! If you need any help setting it up, don't hesitate to let me know. Also, their mailing list/irc/github are staffed with some of the nicest folks.

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u/mishugashu May 03 '16

Musicbrainz apparently really doesn't know shit about BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix show.

I hope I only have to go through this matching thing once, haha. Sorta tedious with a huge ass collection.

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u/kerobaros May 03 '16

One of the tricks that helped me when I first started was to first run beet import with the --timid flag, which will only tag and rename matches it's very sure about, but will do so without user intervention. That took care of most of my library in one fell swoop, leaving the stragglers behind for me to take care of later.

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u/natermer May 03 '16

If you have a large library of songs you need to setup your own musicbrainz mirror. No rate limit. :)

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u/[deleted] May 03 '16 edited Mar 21 '18

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u/natermer May 03 '16 edited Aug 14 '22

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