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Beets tips & config
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IDK if I'd recommend this to others, but I don't trust unsupervised metadata lookup (I'm anal like that), so I lookup metadata with musicbrainz picard and then feed the files to beets only to keep my library organized.
My beets doesn't do any lookup (no lookup plugins are enabled,
none_rec_action: asis,fetchartconfigured to only look at the local filesystem).This is kind of how I have been operating. Rip to FLAC. Manage the lookup and tagging manually. Then I have a series of scripts to convert to MP3, apply RG, and send the FLAC to an off-site backup, move MP3s into the library.
I thought maybe I've been too anal about my tags and I should just work through letting it standardize and add IDs to everything. But now you all have me questioning that part.
Picard adds IDs too (well, I think it only adds musicbrainz ids, per default anyway, but those are the only ones I care about).
The lookup is automatic as well (you can review or intervene if it fails to identify the release).
It also has a plugin for replay gain (I redo that step in my script anyways) and can be configured to delete any previous tags if you re-process music that you had previously tagged with some other software (IIRC it doesn't clean them up per default).
If you've not used it, I recommend giving it a try before deciding how to go on.