MacPaw Gemini 2 VS MusicBrainz Picard

In terms of duplicates, you can scan the NAS folder via SMB using a Mac program called Gemini. Source: 11 months ago

There is a commercial solution called Gemini 2 from MacPaw that you might check out. I've been testing it and it's pretty straightforward and can be used to identify dupes that you then manually check too: http://macpaw.com/gemini/. Source: 12 months ago

Have used 'Gemini 2' on Mac (via mounted shares) with reasonable success. Source: over 1 year ago

If you are looking for deleting duplicate files, Gemini 2 has been solid for me. Source: over 1 year ago

In fact, I was recently looking for an app to help me detect duplicates in Apple Photos after thousands of images accidentally got merged into my library, and discovered Gemini 2 through a Google search, not Mac Paw pushing it on me. Now that app may be advertised in CleanMyMac X somewhere, but I'd never seen it before. Source: over 1 year ago

Have you tried https://www.funkwhale.audio/? It can be used effectively as a "private spotify". Labeling is a solved problem thanks to https://picard.musicbrainz.org/, and the fact that a lot of the music you buy these days comes pre-labeled already. You then have a web-app (and/or a mobile app, if that's your thing) where you can stream music as you would with Spotify. You can even build yourself a little... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

I use picard for my collection. My work flow is Picard > Lyrics Finder > Foobar for BPM, RealGain and DR > Custom python script to pull genre and mood from Last.FM and spotify> then Advanced Renamer to perform naming clean up of folder names. I lowercase and underscore spaces. Also does files if I happen to need Mp3Tag when Picard doesn't find anything. Once this is done I move files on to may NAS. Source: 5 months ago

Musicbrainz Picard - A great application that I've used in the past to identify and organize my saved music collection. It's not focused on adding semantic tags though: it's used for adding metadata to .mp3 files. Source: 6 months ago

I do the same but run it though Picard[0] before adding to Plex. [0]https://picard.musicbrainz.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Feed all of your music to something like 'musicbrainz picard' - it will sort out all the tags and provide the artwork too. Source: 10 months ago