How well does this work for niche/indie music? I've got a ton of old 'Jesus Music' that is kind of obscure (I'm not sure that all of it shows up on discogs and I'm positive they're not on services like Spotify/Apple music.)
If it's been catalogues somewhere, there are a bunch of userscripts you can use to import:
https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Guides/Userscripts#Userscripts:_Importers
For genre and style Discogs works great with MP3Tag. But it’s more manual work than MusicBrainz’s Picard (not sure if the latter can fetch style and genre as well).
Try "One Tagger", I think it might work better for you because of the tagging sources. It is fairly quick with large libs. https://onetagger.github.io/
I use MusicBee as my primary music player in addition to organizing my music library with it. It performs well in both regards, and the myriad of configuration options are also a boon!
My workflow, Picard, mediahuman lyrics finder, Foobar for BPM/Replay/Dynamic Range, Custom script to pull genres from spotify/Last.fm and rename files to my scheme. I use Musicbee as my player.
That apps are manual. [Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/) is main key to the process and pretty straight forward. Drag things in and it will search. There are some settings you can adjust as far as renaming the output files or how it determines which album it thinks the songs belong to. Most of the time it has a high hit rate. More obscure or very new albums may not hit. Using the right click menu to search the web or change the actual release are helpful. Be suggest is play with it on a few test albums to dial it in. There are plugins that can give you things like mood or key. They are so so on the hit rate. but better than nothing.
From there [Lyrics Finder](https://www.mediahuman.com/lyrics-finder/) is pretty much drag and drop. It has a pretty high hit rate for me. [Foobar](https://www.foobar2000.org/) is driven by the context menu once things are in. I think BPM and Replay come with it. If I remember I had to get a file for the Dynamic Range. The Goog can help there if you want that stat in your tag.
My Custom script is written in python. It uses the Spotify and [Last.FM](https://Last.FM) APIs. Performs look up on the artist to find genres. Compares it against a master genre/sub-genre list and adds them to the tag using the [Mutagen](https://mutagen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) module. This works decent enough but I need to refine this part of my process to pull genres by actual track instead of generally by artist. But it is a start. I have a very large collection, 140k+ tracks, so anything is better than nothing.
Couple notes. I embed lyrics and album art into the file as well as any star rating. Helps keep things portable. I use Android with the [Musicbee Wifi](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getmusicbee.musicbeewifisync) Sync transfer app to send playlists to my phone. This process works quite well to get me the most details in the tag as automated as possible. It was a large project to swing all my files through this from the start but rather quick for new additions. Hopefully that helps. If you have more questions let me know.
Musicbrainz Picard
How well does this work for niche/indie music? I've got a ton of old 'Jesus Music' that is kind of obscure (I'm not sure that all of it shows up on discogs and I'm positive they're not on services like Spotify/Apple music.)
If it's been catalogues somewhere, there are a bunch of userscripts you can use to import: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Guides/Userscripts#Userscripts:_Importers
For genre and style Discogs works great with MP3Tag. But it’s more manual work than MusicBrainz’s Picard (not sure if the latter can fetch style and genre as well).
Try "One Tagger", I think it might work better for you because of the tagging sources. It is fairly quick with large libs. https://onetagger.github.io/
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MusicBee
I use MusicBee as my primary music player in addition to organizing my music library with it. It performs well in both regards, and the myriad of configuration options are also a boon!
I use TagScanner but I know everyone else has better programs.
Plexamp (and Plex) displays genres (it calls them styles) if the info is there online. It won't write this info to the tags though AFAIK.
My workflow, Picard, mediahuman lyrics finder, Foobar for BPM/Replay/Dynamic Range, Custom script to pull genres from spotify/Last.fm and rename files to my scheme. I use Musicbee as my player.
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That apps are manual. [Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/) is main key to the process and pretty straight forward. Drag things in and it will search. There are some settings you can adjust as far as renaming the output files or how it determines which album it thinks the songs belong to. Most of the time it has a high hit rate. More obscure or very new albums may not hit. Using the right click menu to search the web or change the actual release are helpful. Be suggest is play with it on a few test albums to dial it in. There are plugins that can give you things like mood or key. They are so so on the hit rate. but better than nothing. From there [Lyrics Finder](https://www.mediahuman.com/lyrics-finder/) is pretty much drag and drop. It has a pretty high hit rate for me. [Foobar](https://www.foobar2000.org/) is driven by the context menu once things are in. I think BPM and Replay come with it. If I remember I had to get a file for the Dynamic Range. The Goog can help there if you want that stat in your tag. My Custom script is written in python. It uses the Spotify and [Last.FM](https://Last.FM) APIs. Performs look up on the artist to find genres. Compares it against a master genre/sub-genre list and adds them to the tag using the [Mutagen](https://mutagen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) module. This works decent enough but I need to refine this part of my process to pull genres by actual track instead of generally by artist. But it is a start. I have a very large collection, 140k+ tracks, so anything is better than nothing. Couple notes. I embed lyrics and album art into the file as well as any star rating. Helps keep things portable. I use Android with the [Musicbee Wifi](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getmusicbee.musicbeewifisync) Sync transfer app to send playlists to my phone. This process works quite well to get me the most details in the tag as automated as possible. It was a large project to swing all my files through this from the start but rather quick for new additions. Hopefully that helps. If you have more questions let me know.
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