[kwlug-disc] Music Management

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

The Clementine feature list seems pretty close
https://www.clementine-player.org/about

>     Search and play your local music library.
>     Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
>     Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
>     Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
>     Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
>     CUE sheet support.
>     Play audio CDs.
>     Visualisations from projectM.
>     Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
>     Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
>     Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
>     Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
>     Discover and download Podcasts.
>     Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
>     Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
>     Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
>     Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
>     Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
>     Queue manager.


Andrew


On 12/07/17 12:01, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> Hi, I'm Jeff, and I'm a former Windows user (this is the part where
> everyone says "Hi Jeff")...
> 
> Back in the day when I switched from Windows to Linux, I managed to
> replace most of my Windows software with Linux equivalents (or
> better-thans).  But one program I haven't been able to replace is a
> music manager called Media Monkey.  Wonderful piece of software, that. 
> I haven't been able to find something in Linux that does all that MM did
> in one convenient package.
> 
> So I'm asking the group for advice or recommendations...
> 
> What I need is something that:
> 
> 1) Looks up album info, cover art, song titles, etc., on the internet
> and renames the song files accordingly (and embeds the cover art in the
> file's tag info),
> 2) Converts from any format to 320bit mp3 (usually from FLAC),
> 3) Moves the whole album from the working folder to my NAS's music
> folder, and follows the naming structure that I specify (i.e. Album
> Artist/Album Name (year)/Track# - Artist - Title.mp3, etc.),
> 4) Plays the music.
> 
> I know a lot of you are wondering why I would convert FLAC to mp3..  it
> seems the radio in the truck can't handle FLAC that well (it could be
> the USB stick, not sure yet...)
> 
> In the Windows world, MM does this and keeps on smiling.  But I have yet
> to find something in Linux that does the same.  Clementine comes close,
> but the file management isn't that great.
> 
> I've never used Wine before, so I'm also wondering if this would be a
> good cheat or not.  I'm concerned about letting a Windows program mess
> around with the Linux file system, though...
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions to help out a poor recovering Windows user?
> 
> 
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