This is a difficult problem to solve, because everyone has their own (valid) way to name, organize and tag music.
That's why lidarr is so disappointing to many folks.
Most of us use a couple of tools, I personally use MusicBrainz Picard.
I stopped to retag and rename music files. Right now I prefer them to be as original as possible because preservation reasons. I shoud look for an alternative using sidecar files. In the past I used Musicbrainz Picard.
in theory if you wanted to you could use hardlinks to retain the original file structure while also having a nicely organized version available. most of the Arrs support this although TBH I do not trust them with the files I wish to preserve in this way. Since there's not too many of them I just zip up copies of anything I want to retain exactly and let the software work with a duplicate. And hardlinks of course would still be subject to editing like retagging.
Of course if you are accustomed to your library being organized in this manner and it suits you, then there is no reason to change. :)
I’m using Picard musicbrainz.
I use beets. highly configurable, good documentation. cli, though. I think someone was working on a browser plug-in...🤔
I tried beets but it takes so long to do any task. Even if I just ask it to look up 1 album. beet import /path/to/album I got frustrated trying to learn it.
Was surprised about being unable to find any --verbose argument so I could at least see what was going on. Does it just take forever to do anything?
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