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Love me some Discogs. Always scrape against their API to tag my downloads. Marketplace is sick too; never would have imagined that I'd own so much weird shite from Portugal or Germany or Japan or wherever. Maybe one of the few sites left that makes me believe in the internet.

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Exactly, it's one of those sites reminding us of the 90s/early 00 internet and how great it once was. Thankfully they stayed with the "conservative" revenue system as well as never followed the caravan of laggy and oversimplified UI.

As a vinyl collector, thank you Discogs!

I've been hunting for an auto-tag solution for my collection. What tools are you using?

Beets is a decent and battle-tested solution. It has a Discogs plugin as well.

https://github.com/beetbox/beets

it takes a while to take a large library, but that's mostly because of intractable problems with ambiguity in metadata searching. I think it's about as fast as is reasonably possible.

My favorite thing about beets is that it doesn't stop processing when it needs user input. Meaning you can tell it to import a bunch of files, completely forget about it, and come back the next day and only give it input for the files that need it.

I wouldn't let an auto tagging solution anywhere near my collection - at some point it will get things wrong. However if you don't mind manually checking and editing tags I find Meta [1] to be an absolutely fantastic app.

Every new release that gets added to my collection will spend a few seconds in Meta so that I can check and edit the meta data and rename the files in a consistent way. Obviously you can also edit multiple releases at once.

I used quite a few tagging apps over the years, Meta is without a doubt the best of them.

[1] https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

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