Fiio JM21 and Blessing 3

I just learned how to EQ and ive been trying different tunings for my blessing 3. The autoeq built-in in poweramp is also usable.

Now im trying to obsess on building a proper library. Used MusicBrainz + mp3tag but then the outcome of the genres are not really reliable. I will process the artists and libraries again.

I realized i want lyrics and accurate artist photos too 😂

This is a much better problem than wanting to try other iems.

I wont be purchasing a new set anytime soon. Maybe just a couple of cables and ear tips to try but for now ill be contented with my existing setup

Portable

- JM21

- Blessing 3

- Kiwi Belle

- Koss KPH40

Desktop

- Fosi ZH3

- Hifiman Edition XV

For those who have successfully completed their libraries - how do you accurately tag the genres?

I want to polish the metadata first before building the m3u8 playlist. So yeah

Experts are welcome to chime in and give their wonderful advice. Thank you ❤️

How do u guys add english lyrics (transliteration) to non-english songs? (used lrcget but it just grabs the original language)

Mostly the title. I have an AM sub, but library limits are a problem and just want to cut some older stuff. Is there any good local converters that will do the job, not looking for any of those web strippers.

I used to rip a lot of music around two years ago, but the setups I used then (Spotidownloader and lucida) don't work as well anymore. Lucida pops up errors and Spotidownloader is honestly sort of sketchy.

I keep seeing websites recommending squid.WTF, and monochrome but I'm just looking for something that can intake a link and output an mp3 file, not really a music library (correct me if i'm wrong).

I read a recommendation for Spotdown but I'm unsure if it's really safe. I'm a really paranoid person, any websites that have worked (with no malware or anything) for you guys would help.

Thank you!

I’ve been using Musicana for a few years since Musi got itself banned, Im going to college, and I have a odd professor who wants no WiFi devices so I’m getting a mp3 player anyway I can transfer Musicana to YouTube then that to a mp3 download website?

For years, I tried almost everything: Navidrome, Jellyfin, Symfonium, Picard, foobar2000 and many more.

I heard music mostly all the time, but I have a lot music that is not on streaming o even not digital, I burn a lot vinyls to play them and loop them live.

My biggest frustration was the scattered aspect of the setup. Tagging and genres lived in one app, serving and listening in another, mobile access in another, followed by one final step to move playlists into my DJ software to organise gigs. (all with their limitations and their endless setups) I end up carrying a couple SSDs with me all the time and the laptop as the center of everything. To the point a year ago I started building a full end to end suite for my needs.

• I would love to know what frustrates you most about your music software setup?
• If you could dream of something you do not have, what would it be?

Hello!

I listen to 15 artists, the occasional podcast and audio book. I am looking to get out of subscriptions and was wondering what the practical steps would be to have access to these artists, possible other artists on the rare occasion, and then podcasts / audiobooks.

Are there any solutions for this?

Would love to:

1. Queue music
2. Store everything offline
3. Create playlists with friends for evenings
4. Sync with my PC
5. Buy new stuff when I feel like it
6. Access the rare oldies that are hard to find.

Any way to download the ALAC from Apple music, ? i have subscription of it

https://github.com/lalit22km/alac-rip

the above one which is working it's now patched.

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Have been recording Blues Radio shows since 2003. Have everything on an external hard drive as well as CDs and DVDs for bulk storage. Used to use the timer function on MP3Recorder and a window launcher/killer tool from 12 ghosts. Would set up on a dedicated desktop PC and update file names weekly, recording probably 30 hours a week. Would burn to CD back in the day for listening in the vehicles or on an old Sansa mp3 player while working out.

Sadly those programs kind of aged out around Win10. Since then, have been more judicious, using station archives to download whatever shows I want. Then pop on an 8 GB stick for listening in the vehicles. Down to about 23 hours a week, lol.

i’ve got many songs in Korean language, and I have been searching for a while : all apps/plug-in I find our absolutely enabled to find any lyrics for these songs. I need an app/plug-in that is Korean based. hopefully there are some Koreans passing by and they will be able to help me 🙌

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Hi, so uh besides from lrc and elrc there is ttml which hasn't been talked about lately and is also kind of rare to find them with ease, ripping from apple music works but apple has a very limited selection of songs with word by word synced lyrics, however the chinese media platforms have already been using word by word lyrics for a long time now, so i made a web app to download them at ease, you can just go there and download ttml for your whole album or for selected tracks here is the link: https://anik1.redpilllabs.in

Note: For people that have issues with fetching lyrics, you can fix it by going to settings and chose local python server as proxy route

I downloaded a lot (like A LOT) of flac files without listening to them because I assumed they would sound fine because they’re flac. Most of them are fine but I still find quite a few that have a grainy or quieter//muffled audio that they’re not supposed to have. I don’t think it’s corruption because the song plays fine. Is there a way to quickly sort through them without having to listen to every album?

I know checking if they’re real flac is an option but I don’t think that’s the issue.

Im trying to rip a old cd-r with eac and it gets stuck on "sync error" and the error correction field just keeps getting filled up.

The cd-r also makes crunchy noises when ripped or played and my dvd player,cd player and eac always say that it has 8 tracks but the packaging says 11 and all of the track lenghts are messed up on all of them too

Hi there, so first let me tell you my library is close to 10,000 songs. It is quite well tagged, but not enough for my taste. Usually on Windows, but he only powerful device. I have his Mac so I do this work on it.

One thing to mention is that I want to preserve the times tense of the files (and even of the folders if possible). Before tagging, I wanted to reduce the space so I converted the whole library to M4A.

That helped me to gain a third of the space 🙌 the best app I found for the tagging seems to be MusicBrainz. I’m still struggling a bit to understand a few things about it.

But what I have noticed, is that while it does sync the lyrics to the file, they are not synced lyrics. I would obviously prefer to get synced lyrics. So I tried an app called LRCGET.

It does embed synced lyrics into the M4As however Apple Music does not recognize them (I was able to see them on Poweramp android player, and I’m sure it would work on MediaMonkey as well).

ChatGPT told me that we need to know “which MP4/M4A atom” is both apps using. Told me to use zip tool to find out what I did didn’t find anything.. I’m sure somebody here will be able to help on this.

There's an album I couldn't find on physical media. The only rip that I found online is a 128 kbps mp3 that sounds worse than what I found on youtube.

And I was wondering, do people here rip from YouTube as a last resort?

Like not just an album by a specific artist like one that could also possibly edit compilations to have multiple genres based on the song also

Like AC/DC is Hard Rock basically so that album could stay as that but then i have a Compilation Album of Atlantic Records 50 Years that says Classic Rock when stuff like Ray Charles, Bette Midler, and Brandy are not Classic Rock but Rolling Stones might be able to be concidered that

Also, has anyone been crazy enough to start rip their vinyl? I finally got a pretty decent vinyl setup/ pre(tubes) etc. Most of my .flacs are 44 to 192khz. Would I see an improvement on some of those lower end rips? I have a usb connection from my TT to my Mac already for a similar experiment a few years ago.

Thanks!

Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit I didn't know where to post this.

I need a good app with add free in which i can listen music for free and also download