I’ve been lurking here for a while, trying to learn and set up my own stuff. I’m starting off with music. I have a few thousand files in different formats and plenty of duplicates.

I already have an Emby server set up and it works very well.

However, is there a music manager that will help me find and eliminate duplicates?

I’m using Linux Mint and I’m still figuring out how to set up the various users and groups so that the software can access where my music is stored.

I’m thinking Lidarr but - as mentioned - something about setting up users and a media group and doing the permissions is not clicking.

For Emby to work, I’ve made the music directory a shared location and opened guest access.

Any pointers to step by step guides on any of this would be very helpful as well.

  • originalucifer
    5•6 months ago

    if youre using Emby/Jellyfin you would just need emby to access the folder with your music. users would be authenticated through emby.

    i think you should groom your media before you drop it into a media broadcasting solution like emby. i use MediaElch for video, you could use picard for music management. im fairly certain picard has dup detection and rename abilities.

    so you get all your music tagged, renamed and encoded the way ya want. then get them organized into files/folders… then drop that into your emby library.

    lidarr is for obtaining media files and creating a process that automatically injects it into your library. you would want emby running correctly first.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Ah, thank you for the explanation. Fortunately most of my duplicates are entire albums, so I won’t need to comb through each folder/album.

      I’ll check my permissions for emby