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Music organization: Musicbrainz Picard, also available for windows if you want try it before migrating to linux: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
For mobile sync I use Navidrome+Ultrasonic via Subsonic API. Navidrome is a music streaming server, but you can predownload songs, not just livestream them, so it's possible to use it fully offline. https://www.navidrome.org/
I'll have a look at those, thanks :)
You can use any media management solution on your PC and sync that to your devices using https://syncthing.net/
Thanks for replying :)
I've got too much to store on my phone, and a lot of media that I don't want on there, like my kid's music. I don't want to have to break the media up into new directories to sync either.
Can Syncthing do it another way? I've only ever used it for syncing directories.
Syncthing can ignore files and directories, but I don't know if that fits your use case. https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
Ah, no, it wouldn't. I add whole albums sometimes, but I usually add playlists taken from the whole library, so all the tracks would have different paths.
It could be great for the audiobooks and podcasts though :)
I was in your position a few years back. I missed MediaMonkey when shifting to Linux.
I found Tauon media player was a pretty solid replacement for playing local and network files, but ultimately settled on running Navidrome server and Feishin as a desktop client. I haven't looked back.
For organising your collection, I'd look at using either Musicbrainz Picard (GUI based) or Beets (CLI, and it's a little complicated at first). I generally use Beets with Musicbrainz database, and the Discog plugin for anything not found by MB.
I haven't found anything that is a complete package like MediaMonkey, but with a bit of effort and once the parts are set up, it's so much better.
Someone else suggested Navidrome and MusicBrainz Picard too, so I'll definitely give them a try, thanks :)
Not a great replacement but Plex with Plexamp might be an option for music. I'm not sure it can handle audiobook or podcasts metadata automatically. It will host it anyway but you might have to find the metadata externally or import it manually.
Thanks for replying :)
I've got Plex, and have tried Plexamp, but it just didn't do it for me. It's been a while, but I think I could only stream, rather than sync to my device. I couldn't get Plex to import the tracks in the way I wanted either.
Strawberry is still active. But I think you need Beets or Picard, as others have mentioned.
There are a handful of other tools that can help with sorting as well. I think Quod Libet and Ex Falso are available on may distros, I used to use Ex Falso for quick manual tagging and pulling in data from other sources.
As for the syncing, I couldn't help you there. I have used Strawberry for this, for sure, but I tend to drag and drop to my DAP.
Is there any particular reason you don't like using Spotify?
I own a few hundred albums, so I begrudge paying for the ability to listen to them, or have ads, and I'm not always somewhere with a decent internet connection.
That's a valid reason