beets
Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes, then provides a suite of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.
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Automatically organize your music library with perfect metadata, all via command line.
Core Features
- Automatically fetches album art, lyrics, genres, tempos, ReplayGain, and acoustic fingerprints
- Supports audio transcoding, duplicate detection, missing track detection, and tag cleanup
- Built-in web interface for browsing and playing music via HTML5 Audio
- Extensive plugin ecosystem for custom functionality (e.g., Chromaprint, Last.fm genres)
- Written in Python, command-line based, easy to extend with custom plugins
What It Can't Do
- •Command-line only, no GUI – beginners need to learn basic commands; 2. Many configuration options can be overwhelming at first; 3. Metadata scraping depends on network access and may be limited for some sources.
Use Cases
- Organizing large personal music collections with consistent metadata
- Automatically filling missing album art or lyrics for songs
- Batch-fixing messy tags when migrating music libraries
Beets is a powerful, plugin-based media library manager designed for music enthusiasts who want perfect metadata. It automatically fetches album art, lyrics, genres, tempos, ReplayGain levels, and acoustic fingerprints from sources like MusicBrainz, Discogs, and Beatport. It can transcode audio, detect duplicates, find missing tracks, clean up messy tags, and even let you browse your library via a web browser with HTML5 audio playback. Because it's built as a library, you can write your own plugin in Python if needed. Beets is the definitive tool to get your music collection right once and for all.
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Step 1: Install Python 3.8+, then run pip install beets
Step 2: Create config file at ~/.config/beets/config.yaml (refer to docs for directory and plugin settings)
Step 3: Run beet import /path/to/your/music to start importing and auto-correcting tags
- Step 1: Install Python 3.8+, then run pip install beets
- Step 2: Create config file at ~/.config/beets/config.yaml (refer to docs for directory and plugin settings)
- Step 3: Run beet import /path/to/your/music to start importing and auto-correcting tags
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