picard VS airsonic-advanced

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.

Airsonic version: 11.0.0-SNAPSHOT.20230217142243 – February 17, 2023 at 2:22:43 PM GMT [Commit: 1397446f979b1cdea283eec89ce4f0eae7d63450]

I use Airsonic-Advanced and I think it might suit your needs. All my stuff is FLAC 16/44 and I have one sampler album that is 24/96 and it plays just fine.

Regarding the likes of Navidrome (I am a recent user, particularly for music on the go) it's a real pity that it's still reliant on Subsonic - why not move to AirSonic Advanced? With many "personal Spotify" apps the assumption seems to be that playing music on desktop or mobile is what most users want. Is there a way to easily stream lossless to an external DAC via the likes of a RPi? Is it as simple as adding a DLNA client to the mix?

I'm running the latest build of Airsonic-Advanced ( 11.0.0-SNAPSHOT.20220625052932 – June 25, 2022 at 1:29:32 AM EDT [Commit: 89e6fe9aec80daf8224c6696f8f86bfcf22c6e0a] ) and I'm having a problem with my database getting corrupted on a regular basis (every 1-2 weeks). I then have to delete it, reboot and let it rebuild, and then it gets corrupted again.

My recommendation would be to not use Plex for Podcasts. You could use Airsonic-Advanced for automatic Podcast episode grabbing and then either play them through that or use AudiobookShelf.

Highly recommend plex/plexamp and Airsonic-advanced

I presume from the version you are using Airsonic Advanced? You're better of posting on their Github https://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced/issues