How to hardlink qBittorrent music after retagging with MusicBrainz Picard? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I would love to seed (and cross-seed) my music library, but metadata tagging and renaming fucks the files up. How do I set up qBittorrent and Prowlarr to keep seeding after retagging?

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[-] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

You can rename the files using qBit. Just use its “rename files” feature. You can also rename folders this way.

As far as tagging in musicbrainz, I don’t think you will be able to do that because it will mean that you will have changed the contents of the files themselves. I could be wrong on that and someone else might be able to tell you how to do it though.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only way would be shenanigans with copy-on-write and deduplication; when it's done seeding, copy it elsewhere on the same filesystem (which will use no space and be instant, because it's just making a pointer to the original). Then make your modifications to the new version

[-] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's what I thought but I wanted to try. Hate not giving back when I get something. I'm trying to retroactively seed my entire music library if possible. Looks like I'd have to make my own torrents