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I have all my mp3s on my NAS. Over the years, I've been rating the tracks, standardizing the id3 tags, etc. I love my music collection. But the era of the single device experience is over and as such I need a little more. Up until now, I've been copying tracks over to my phone every time I need new portable music.

At one point I was using Clementine Music Player on my laptop and using Clementine Remote on my phone. But Clementine died and hasn't received an update in years.

I tried Plex but holy fuck, it made a mess of my collection. I couldn't search for tracks by rating and I couldn't do searches like "(genre: hip-hop OR genre: rap) AND rating>4)" which made it double useless for me.

So I guess my question is, is what can I point at my NAS music directories, which can allow me to stream music from my server when I'm in the house, will allow me to filter by ratings and anything else I like, fucks off the money grab which is the artists (plural) id3 tag, will allow me to update ratings from my phone or laptop and will allow me to copy to my local device for when I'm ready to leave out?

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The artist tag (singular) has rightfully been around forever, the artists tag (plural) is relatively new. You'll see it as "Artist 1;Artist 2" or similar.

[–] madkarlsson 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, missed the plural, sorry about that. But is that one the same as "Album artists" or yet another one then?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Different to album artists, which is good for compilations and producer lead albums.

[–] madkarlsson 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alright, thanks. Sounds like the existing fields could have been leveraged for that tbh, seems given that the newer field would be overused/misused

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. The only reason this was added was to confuse our music libraries.