Do I use a website to download songs off of YouTube or Spotify?
Where should I store the music? I haven’t any clue about self-hosting. I’m running GrapheneOS, is it enough to save the songs in Files and play in an app like Auxio? Maybe sync with SyncThing?
What’s the best way to compress mp3 files but still retain the quality (even possible)?
Could really use some help as I’m very inexperienced. :)
Do you think it would be fine for me to download all songs and then wait until I’m able to download the tagging applications, or does everything need to happen in one go for everything to sync? I’m thinking waiting about a year (when I buy a new computer) and then use the apps to tag my songs, or will I still need the data from deemix?
Yes, I think that’s what I would do. Downloading from deemix and tagging in other programs are separate processes, so you can do them separately at different times.
I’d probably even encourage to download them now, because as you can see, deemix doesnt get updated anymore and things start to break.
It also gives you time to revise your methods of downloading and tagging. (For example, I started downloading my songs from a website, one by one, until I found deemix (that website got shut down soon after, rip).)
So, no need to do them simultaneously. Download them now and tag them next year or whenever you can. You can afterwards simply sync the (“properly”) tagged files to your other devices and have the metadata everywhere.
Thank you so much for your help! So excited to finally begin the journey of owning my music.
Thats the spirit! Lets goo
Just to be clear, because some metadata is missing such as year released, tagging and such can all be solved in the other applications? Deemix is solely used for download?
In the tags section in settings you can tell deemix to download tags along with the songs. It does a rather good job as it fetches data from deezer. Is the year missing from every song? On my setup, it automatically downloads the date (or only the year) of almost all the songs I download with deemix (some obscure songs may not have a proper date). Deemix should do a good job and download around 70% (this is an abstract percentage) of the tags you may need.
Once you download the songs from deemix, you should probably not need to use deemix again.
Tagging afterwards should fix many of the missing or incorrect metadata (obsucre songs may have lower success rates). In my guide, I even have the code for a python script I made, which I use to download the dates of songs from genius (the site with the lyrics). (I think it was my first time coding in python, lol.)
PS. It’s getting late, so I’ll probably be off for some time.
Hm, unfortunately all songs are listed as Unknown Year, and the genres are very scattered and inaccurate. I’ve ticked all the tag boxes already. So long as I can solve this with the tagging applications, I shouldn’t have to redownload everything, or?
Yes. As long as the title and the artists tags (not the filename) of the song are correct (in many cases not even these have to be correct, because there’s an option to auto-scan songs with Shazam in my process), my process should be able to work without redownloading anything.
Thats a bit weird, may I ask:
How do you view the metadata? Some apps may have trouble reading metadata.
Do you download them in flac or mp3?
Could you share a song so that I try to download it myself to check if this only happens to you?
I just downloaded a random song and I can see the date under the
YEARtag. Also if I right-click it on file explorer and go to details, I can see under the “date released” the date of the song.(Btw, the genious script I use, as I have told you somewhere, fixes the dates, high very high accuracy. Im pulling the dates from genius, because deezer, spotify etc. for some reason seem to use the date they were added to the platform as the date of release and it bothered me a lot.)
Yeah… Genres is probably the hardest to get it right, even after all the automation in my process, there have been times I manually edited the genres. Bandcamp is a good source of genres, so I try to draw genres from there, but still the automation fails some times and have to manually edit them with mp3tag (genious is a good source too).
I can’t view the metadata on my phone, just on my computer. As an example I’m viewing the song “Crown of Thorns” by Black Veil Brides. It is a FLAC file (as per the settings), and on my computer I can see the date released, artist, album, genre, track number, file size… so I don’t know why this info doesn’t translate to the music player on my phone (Gramophone). Maybe it’s because I haven’t gone through with the tagging process yet? In which case that’s understandable.
Also, some songs failed to download from deemix, but their .lrc files still downloaded. Can I transfer these .lrc files to my phone (along with the other downloaded songs), or must the FLAC and LRC files be downloaded as a pair for the metadata to be synced with the right song?