onetagger VS picard

One Tagger - Music tagging software that has a feature set pretty similar to Picard, but also allows you to categorize music by properties like "Energy", "Mood", and "Genre". This is actually pretty similar to what I'm trying to do, but my tags have a much more generic purpose. Also, this program still focuses only on saved .mp3 files. The feature set is very narrowly focused toward professional DJs, anyway.

for better metadata you can use one tagger

onetagger.github.io is free and will fetch the key from the track’s metadata on online stores

If you just need to fix the artwork in the track's metadata (ID3 tags, etc) you could give Mp3Tag a shot, it's great for when you want to modify data including artwork. One Tagger is also really great especially for bulk downloading of tags including artwork. Both are relatively easy to use so check them out!

Recently came across OneTagger which worked light years better for me that MediaMonkey for correct tagging and organization.

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 music-sharing commune with friends, where you all upload the albums you buy and accumulate a nice collection of diverse tunes.

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.

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.

I do the same but run it though Picard[0] before adding to Plex.

[0]https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

feed all of your music to something like 'musicbrainz picard' - it will sort out all the tags and provide the artwork too

Aside from properly ripping and tagging your own physical collection I'd generally refer you to r/piracy but I think they've gone a bit strange since the blackout. I'm fairly sure anything more specific in that direction would not be appropriate for this subreddit.

Downloading MusicBrainz will be a lifesaver for you.