r/musichoarder

im new and i wanna download music, so how do i know which flacs are real in the search options?

I've been using Plexamp to play my music library on my windows computer to the Yamaha controller+speakers that is on my wifi. MusicCast is the app that Yamama provides, but it doesn't really like the music library on the PC. I switched to Plexamp, which is great when it works, but it isn't recognizing a new CD I just burned. I verified the metadata was updated with Picard, and I manually hit the scan library button, but it still doesn't recognize the new music folder. It also has the wrong artist name for this one artist, even though the metadata is correct for those albums as are the folder names. Nor will it let me edit those tracks for some reason. So I'm looking to see what my other options are.

• I don't care about playing my music when I'm away from home, so really just want to play on devices on my wifi.
• I don't want to control it via my laptop as I have a 2 story house with a basement, and my phone is easier to carry around than my laptop. I currently have an iphone.
• I want to be able to play my music collection on random, either by genre or by playlist (preferably a smart playlist so I don't have to update it every time I add new music). I sometimes listen by artist or by album, but mostly I like by all tracks within a genre.
• I have almost 7000 tracks, most are of the genre I primarily listen to, so it needs to be able to handle that size.
• I used to use an NAS, but it is very old and am not wanting to spend that kind of money right now replacing it (esp since it primarily holds pictures and music, and I might also move out the US in the next 5 years and won't be able to bring the NAS with me - not worth the $600+ cost right now).
• I'm only slightly to moderately tech savvy. I can do more than most, but that isn't saying something.

Any recommendations?

Is there any tool, ia, site, app, program, that make a playlist on spotify or deezer or other music holder like amazon music just by pasting a list of songs like the list below? And it creates the playlist automatically without adding song by song? I'd be grateful if someone teach me how to do it

• Africa — Toto
• And the Beat Goes On — The Whispers
• Beat It — Michael Jackson
• Broken Wings — Mr. Mister
• Burning Heart — Survivor
• Caribbean Queen — Billy Ocean
• Cheri, Cheri Lady — Modern Talking
• Circle in the Sand — Belinda Carlisle
• Cruel Summer — Bananarama
• Danger Zone — Kenny Loggins
• Domino Dancing — Pet Shop Boys
• Drive — The Cars
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World — Tears for Fears
• Forever Young — Alphaville
• Fresh — Kool & the Gang
• Heaven — Bryan Adams
• Holding Back the Years — Simply Red
• Human Nature — Michael Jackson
• (I Just) Died in Your Arms — Cutting Crew
• In the Heat of the Night — Sandra
• Just an Illusion — Imagination
• La Isla Bonita — Madonna
• Livin' on a Prayer — Bon Jovi
• Maria Magdalena — Sandra
• Missing You — John Waite
• Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now — Starship
• Oh, Don't Lose Your Heart Tonight — Silent Circle
• On the Tray — Sandra
• Out of Touch — Hall & Oates
• Push It to the Limit (Scarface) — Paul Engemann
• Save a Prayer — Duran Duran
• Self Control — Laura Branigan
• Somebody's Watching Me — Rockwell
• Stay the Night — Benjamin Orr
• Still Loving You — Scorpions
• Stop the Rain in the Night — Silent Circle
• Take My Breath Away — Berlin
• Tarzan Boy — Baltimora
• Touch in the Night — Silent Circle
• Waiting for a Girl Like You — Foreigner
• We Built This City — Starship
• West End Girls — Pet Shop Boys
• When the Smoke Is Going Down — Scorpions
• Who's Holding Donna Now — DeBarge
• Your Love — The Outfield
• Act Like You Know — Larry's Band

I think everybody who downloaded music compilations from various artists has faced this problem from time to time. You have a cool compilation of music but some songs are more quite and some are extremely loud.

What I´m looking for is a tool that can normalize volume for an enitre album. Not just a song by song. I´m mostly working with Windows so yeah..

What is your experience with this?

So for context, I have ADHD and autism, my brain is VERY neurospicy and I needed my music library to both be neatly organized, but not too cluttered. The problem with that, is that my library stretches over the 10K mark and is quickly growing even faster no thanks to the ease of this prompt I have created, on top of that, I listen to a very wide array of genres.....hundreds of them.

I literally spent years trying to sort it all by ear, but I would quickly get burnt out from trying to register the sounds while listening, and not actually relaxing and enjoying/collecting music. I was all aboard the hating AI train, in a lot of cases I think AI is awful, but for this particular task, it has been GODSEND FOR ME!

I might tweak this prompt later for better accuracy, but I think as it stands, it's nearly perfect for my needs. I hope that this template can help some of you who may be struggling with the same problem I had. I simply just send the track and artist name like this (Deft - Scalp) after I send the prompt, and it sorts each track into neat little genre buckets for me. Feel free to share and tweak it to however it suits your ears and satisfaction. I've not tested it with other AI programs other than the Google AI Mode.

Sorry for the wall of text, it's kind of a long prompt.

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Act as an advanced music curator and sorting system. You will analyze music tracks strictly by the hyper-specific micro-genres they are assigned the most across global streaming metadata and algorithmic archives—specifically utilizing Chosic.com and Everynoise.com as primary sources to avoid oversimplified genre taxonomies. You will categorize each track into up to 5 of the most dominant buckets from the 38-bucket master list below. A track does not need to fill 5 buckets if it only matches one, two, three, or four dominant metadata profiles.

🎛️ CORE RULES FOR RESPONSES:

1. FORMATTING: Every response must lead immediately with the matching buckets in bold capital letters, using a strict one-word structure for each bucket, separated by pipes, like this: BUCKET | BUCKET | BUCKET

2. ALPHABETICAL ORDER: If a track fits into multiple buckets, the buckets must always be listed in strict alphabetical order (A to Z).

3. NO SONIC INTERPRETATION: Do not look up the raw audio or sonic qualities to subjectively judge the track. Base the bucket results strictly on what micro-genre tags are statistically assigned to the individual track or artist the most often on Chosic and Every Noise.

4. TAXONOMY CROSSOVERS & SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS: Rely on the micro-genre tags to trigger independent buckets simultaneously (e.g., electro-funk or boogie tags will trigger FUNK | SYNTH).

   • PSYCHEDELIC RESTRICTION: Atmospheric or textural genres like shoegaze, nu-gaze, or dream pop must NEVER trigger the PSYCHEDELIC bucket. The PSYCHEDELIC bucket is exclusively reserved for genres that possess explicit altered-state modifiers directly in their names (e.g., psychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia, acid rock, space rock, psytrance, stoner rock/metal).
   • PHONK/FUNK BAN: Digital internet genres like Phonk, Drift Phonk, or Brazilian Phonk (including Funk Automotivo and Favela Funk tags) must NEVER trigger the FUNK bucket, which remains strictly isolated for traditional groove-heavy, syncopated instrumentation.
   • WITCH HOUSE TRIGGER: Any micro-genre tag identifying as Witch House must automatically force-trigger the GOTH bucket alongside its regular instrumentation layers to preserve its subcultural darkwave roots.
   • NEW WAVE DANCE EXCLUSION: Traditional 1980s electronic pop genres like New Wave, Synth-pop, or Sophisti-pop must NEVER trigger the CLUB bucket, even if they topped historical dance charts or carry broad "Dance-Pop" metadata tags. The CLUB bucket is strictly reserved for continuous, quantized house/techno electronic music meant for continuous club mixing. Bouncy, syncopated pop structures must skip the CLUB bucket entirely.
   • EXTREME METAL ROCK BLOCK: Extreme subgenres of metal (specifically Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, Grindcore, and Slam) must NEVER trigger the ROCK bucket, even if they carry secondary "Hard Rock" or broad "Alternative Rock" tags. The METAL bucket must stand alone for these tracks to prevent ultra-heavy, extreme distortion from polluting standard rock collections.

5. FOLK ISOLATION & REGIONAL FILTERS: The FOLK bucket is strictly reserved for Western/Anglo-American acoustic and indie styles. Any track tagged with regional or international folk markers (e.g., Nordic folk, African folk) must bypass the FOLK bucket entirely and route into its respective regional bucket (or crossover with other instrumentation buckets like AMBIENT, METAL, etc., without triggering FOLK).

6. ELECTRONIC HYBRIDS: Traditional rock or pop tracks that heavily integrate non-dance electronic production (e.g., tagged with Electronic Rock, Alternative Dance, or Indie Electronica) must simultaneously trigger the SYNTH bucket to account for prominent electronic instrumentation without mistakenly triggering BREAKS, CLUB, or IDM.

7. CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTATION HYBRIDS: Traditional rock, pop, or electronic tracks that heavily integrate dominant orchestral, chamber, or acoustic string/piano instrumentation pipelines (e.g., tagged with Chamber Pop, Baroque Pop, Orchestral Rock, Chamber Folk, or Neo-Classical) must simultaneously trigger the CLASSICAL bucket to log and preserve that specific instrumental background layer.

8. MELODIC/SOFT ALTERNATIVE POP OVERRIDE: Soft, atmospheric, or highly melodic subgenres of rock and punk (specifically Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Emo, and Screamo) must automatically trigger the POP bucket alongside their baseline instrumentation buckets. This ensures that soft melodic layers are systematically mapped as POP | ROCK (for shoegaze/dream pop) or POP | PUNK (for emo/screamo).

   • GOTH/INDUSTRIAL EXCLUSION: If a track possesses primary, heavy subcultural metadata tags for Goth Rock, Deathrock, Darkwave, Coldwave, or EBM, it is completely exempt from this pop override to preserve the dark aesthetic. EXCEPTION: If the track is explicitly tagged with upbeat or commercial-crossover subculture tags (e.g., Goth Pop, Synth-pop, Wave, New Wave) AND features a matching energized vocal delivery, the POP bucket can be triggered alongside GOTH.

9. THE "DARK" PREFIX OVERRIDE: Any micro-genre tag containing the word "dark" anywhere in its structural description (e.g., Dark Ambient, Dark Trap, Dark Folk, Dark Synth) must automatically trigger the GOTH bucket alongside its regular instrumentation layers.

💿 THE 38-BUCKET ONE-WORD MASTER LIST:

• AFRICAN: Driven strictly by Sub-Saharan African regional tags (Afrobeats, Amapiano, Highlife, Soukous, Desert Blues, Mbalax, Ethio-jazz).
• AMBIENT: Driven strictly by atmospheric, non-percussive, or micro-sampled electronic tags (Ambient, Downtempo, Drone, Glitch, Cinematic pads).
• AVANT-GARDE: Driven by non-musical audio, found sounds, unmetered field recordings, or dry human speech. Traditional musical scales and standard rhythmic instrumentation must be absent from the metadata profile.
• BALKAN: Driven by Southeastern European regional tags (Balkan brass, Bulgarian choral, turbo-folk, chalga, Greek laiko).
• BREAKS: Governed strictly by syncopated, irregular, or halftime "broken" electronic beat signatures designed for club or festival playback (Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Breakbeat, Jungle, UK Bass, Glitch-Hop, Halftime, Future Bass, Phonk).
• CARIBBEAN: Governed by islands outside the standard Reggae taxonomy (Soca, Calypso, Compas, Zouk, Bouyon, Steelpan).
• CELTIC: Anchored by Atlantic-European regional roots tags (Irish traditional, Scottish Gaelic, Breton folk, Galician folk, sea shanties, Celtic punk).
• CLASSICAL: Dominated by acoustic orchestral, chamber, or choral instrumentation tags (violins, cellos, brass, woodwinds, acoustic grand pianos, opera, impressionism). Also triggered as a background layer in modern hybrid genres like Chamber Pop, Baroque Pop, or Orchestral Rock.
• CLUB: Dictated exclusively by a traditional, steady "four-on-the-floor" linear club pulse (continuous kick drums hitting on every single beat, typically in the 115–140+ BPM pocket). Triggered by linear electronic tags (House, Techno, Trance, Hardstyle, Tech House, Minimal, Deep House).
• COUNTRY: Driven by traditional roots instrumentation tags (bluegrass, country pop, outlaw country, honky tonk, Americana). Also triggered by acoustic alternative hybrids like Gothic Country when acoustic structures are dominant.
• DIASPORIC: Triggered by trans-continental, non-geographically locked cultural or ethnic tags (Klezmer, Romani brass, Sephardic music, Yiddish folk).
• DISCO: Dictated by a rigid, high-velocity "four-on-the-floor" kick drum cadence (110–130 BPM) and unrelenting, metronomic 16th-note hi-hat patterns designed for continuous club mixing (Disco, Euro-Disco, Post-Disco, Italo-Disco, Nu-Disco).
• DRILL: Dominated by dark, aggressive, slide-bass heavy tags featuring high-velocity hi-hat patterns and gritty lyrical delivery (UK Drill, Chicago Drill, New York Drill, Jersey Drill).
• EAST-ASIAN: Anchored by Far East cultural spheres (K-pop, J-rock, C-pop, traditional Chinese guzheng, gagaku, Trot).
• FOLK: Anchored strictly by Western, Anglo-American acoustic stringed instruments and organic folk tags (indie folk, singer-songwriter). Also triggered by acoustic alternative hybrids like Neo-Folk or Dark Folk when traditional rock elements are absent. Excludes all regional/global folk tags.
• FUNK: Driven by highly syncopated, groove-heavy polyrhythms that place immense, broken emphasis on the first beat of the measure "The One" (Funk, P-Funk, Deep Funk, Funk Rock, G-Funk). Bars digital Phonk tags entirely.
• GOTH: Dominated by darkwave, coldwave, deathrock, and goth rock tags.
• HIP-HOP: Anchored by classic, alternative, and production-forward MC rap tags (East Coast hip-hop, West Coast rap, Boom-Bap, Underground rap, Alternative hip-hop, Conscious rap).
• IDM: Driven by synthesized, sequenced, or complex electronic production tags that feature beats but reject traditional club formulas, focusing on complex, irregular time signatures and experimental rhythms (IDM, Glitch-Hop, Breakcore, Acid Techno, Leftfield Bass).
• INDIGENOUS: Triggered strictly by first-nations or tribal heritage tags (Native American flute, Powwow, Aboriginal Australian, Inuit throat singing, Andean panpipe).
• INDUSTRIAL: Grounded in abrasive, mechanical, and distorted electronic tags (EBM, industrial metal, industrial techno, harsh noise).
• JAZZ: Driven by traditional or contemporary jazz tags (bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, jazz fusion, vocal jazz, smooth jazz).
• LATIN: Dictated by Central and South American regional markers (MPB, bossa nova, cumbia, reggaeton, dembow, neo-perreo, mariachi, tango, trap latino).
• MENA: Governed by Middle Eastern and North African metadata (Arabic pop, Persian classical, Turkish psych, rai, gnawa).
• METAL: Dominated by heavy, aggressive, distorted guitar-centric tags (metalcore, deathcore, thrash metal, doom metal, black metal, heavy metal).
• NORDIC: Triggered by Scandinavian and Nordic cultural, historical, or linguistic tags (Nordic folk, Viking ambient, runic metal, joik).
• OCEANIC: Restricted to Pacific Island and Australasian indigenous tags (Polynesian, Haka chants, Fijian folk, Jawaiian, Maori pop).
• POP: Anchored by modern, mainstream commercial radio tags and hyper-catchy hook classifications (pop, dance-pop, electropop, synthpop). Also universally triggered by soft, melodic, or atmospheric alternative genres including Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Emo, and Screamo.
• PSYCHEDELIC: Triggered strictly by tags and subgenres containing explicit altered-state modifiers directly in their names (psychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia, acid rock, space rock, psytrance, stoner rock, stoner metal). Atmospheric genres like shoegaze and dream pop are explicitly excluded.
• PUNK: Driven by high-velocity, raw punk rock tags (hardcore punk, pop punk, post-punk, emo, screamo, skate punk).
• R&B: Dominated by soulful, expressive R&B, contemporary R&B, neo-soul, quiet storm, and gospel-rooted vocal tags.
• REGGAE: Dictated by traditional Jamaican rhythm structures and derivative tags (reggae, dub, roots reggae, dancehall, rocksteady).
• ROCK: Driven primarily by traditional electric guitar band setups. Tracks triggering this bucket standalone must possess high-volume, loud, or distorted guitar instrumentation profiles in their core metadata. When appearing as a hybrid tag alongside POP or SYNTH, it captures clean, compressed, or heavily processed electric guitar setups (e.g., New Wave, Dance-Rock) to systematically separate them from acoustic-roots instrumentation.

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I started rocking an h2 not to long ago and my already giant library has gotten so much bigger now that I've discovered Antra and it's ability playlist downloads. That being said I dont need help in actually tagging most of music however my collection was already at the point where it's filled with album folders with only one song and I havent quite figured out m3u files yet. I'm just looking for some sort of software to help me filter my library and take out my many duplicate songs and get my playlists in order.

Admittedly I'm a little new to reddit so please go easy on me

Note: I havent touched rockbox if it's relevant cuz im scared of it

Hi everyone,
I’ve recently started ripping my own CDs and tagging them with MusicBrainz Picard. Everything is displayed correctly in Navidrome, so I should be happy… but I’ve realized that the folder structure on my hard drive isn’t ideal.
At the moment, I have a single Music folder, and inside it all albums are named using this format:
Artist - Album Title (Release Year)
While looking around online, I came across the following folder structure:

Music/
└── Artist/
├── Albums/
│ ├── 1998 - Album Title/
│ ├── 2001 - Album Title/
│ └── 2025 - Album Title/
│
├── EPs/
│ ├── 2000 - EP Title/
│ └── 2012 - EP Title/
│
├── Singles/
│ ├── 1999 - Single Title/
│ └── 2020 - Single Title/
│
├── Live Albums/
│ ├── 2005 - Live Album Title/
│ └── 2018 - Live Album Title/
│
├── Compilations/
│ ├── 2008 - Compilation Title/
│ └── 2021 - Greatest Hits/
│
├── Box Sets/
│ └── 2015 - Complete Collection/
│ ├── Disc 1/
│ ├── Disc 2/
│ └── Disc 3/
│
├── Remix Albums/
│ └── 2016 - Remix Collection/
│
├── Demo Recordings/
│ └── 1993 - Demo Title/
│
├── Bootlegs/
│ └── 2004 - Live Bootleg/
│
├── Soundtracks/
│ └── 2010 - Soundtrack Title/
│
├── Collaborations/
│ └── 2017 - Artist A & Artist B/
│
└── Miscellaneous/
└── Other Releases/

I really like this layout and I’m thinking about reorganizing my entire library this way.
However, I have a few questions. For example, how would you organize an album that was created jointly by two artists? Would you put it under one artist, create a separate “Collaborations” folder, or do something else entirely?
Also, do you think these subcategories are actually useful in the long run, or are they just unnecessary complexity?
Is there anything else I should consider before putting in the time to reorganize my entire collection?
How do you personally organize your music library?
I’d really appreciate any tips or suggestions.

Thanks!

I'm building a "Further reading" page for a music-related site. Do y'all have recommendations for links to great articles/posts that music hoarders might be interested in? Example: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

I'm currently using yt music with my phone's built in headphone jack and wired headphones. I'm also getting Sennheiser hd 599 SE as my first open back headphones and plan on using it with my phone's headphone jack. If it weren't for the lossless audio benefits then I'd probably stick to yt music as i have an android and i prefer the yt music app over the apple music one and i wouldn't even consider apple music. I have heard people talk about services like qobuz and tidal but they aren't available in my region unfortunately. I was wondering if it was worth switching to apple music for the lossless audio?

Hello! So I have recently been downloading my favorite albums to my computer, and I have what is probably a stupid question, but I can't find the answer by just asking it in a search engine.

How do you order the songs in album order within the folder? Should I be labeling the songs individually as like 1, 2, 3, etc? Or is there a specific software that just does this (my computer is running Linux Mint Cinnamon)?

PLEASE. DOES ANYONE HAVE THIS SONG DOWNLOADED:

https://soundcloud.com/omar7788/yui-again

THE LINK ABOVE IS A SONG THAT WAS DELETED FROM SOUNDCLOUD — HOWEVER THIS LINK IS BEFORE DELETION.

I plan on moving to a DAP as my main source of music, away from the streaming services.

I’d really appreciate if you could get me to a source/link/repository that is accessible to download hifi files.
Would be really nice if the tracks are sorted in genres

Tia

sites like wildambience.com or listeningnature.com they cost money.

sleep, ambience, nature, meditation

(for free)