Reccomended music library software?

[glop20]

I've been on the lookout for something few have thought of: a music library manager that doesn't use id3 tags.

The reasons I actively hate id3 tags include that they don't include character encoding info, and by living in a non-latin1 country, I was really fed up with them after a short while. (Another reason is that due to continued exposure to an IT major at a technical university, I have developed a pathological phobia of unnecessary redundancy.)

So which music manager can be set up to sort music by parsing filenames with a regexp? (I have real long filenames, like "Rammstein - Sehnsucht - 03 - Tier.mp3", that is "Artist - Album - track - Title"...) It should be easy.

It's true that id3v1 tags don't include encoding informations, but id3v2 tags can use latin1 or utf16, (and utf8 for id3v2.4). And having these informations in the filenames is not a good idea, what about fields with '-', '/', or other special characters ?
And by using tags, you can store more informations, like year, genre, comments ...

FWIW my vote goes to GMusicBrowser, some rough edges, but some really great features, it's a pity some of them are a bit hidden.

[red-wolf76]

So which music manager can be set up to sort music by parsing filenames with a regexp? (I have real long filenames, like "Rammstein - Sehnsucht - 03 - Tier.mp3", that is "Artist - Album - track - Title"...) It should be easy.

I think someone further up already mentioned quodlibet. It claims to have regex support on the website. Maybe worth checking out.

[BitJam]

Two lightweight music players I've seen that deal with large collections with id3 tags are Decibel and Goggles Music Manager. They are similar but I prefer Goggles.

[rtomek]

So which music manager can be set up to sort music by parsing filenames with a regexp? (I have real long filenames, like "Rammstein - Sehnsucht - 03 - Tier.mp3", that is "Artist - Album - track - Title"...) It should be easy.

I think someone further up already mentioned quodlibet. It claims to have regex support on the website. Maybe worth checking out.

Yeah, and I hear they also had an update in the last 2 1/2 years, which this thread hasn't had

[HeissFuss]

You might want to give www-apps/ampache a try. It serves as a backend for the music library, can stream or present raw files through the web interface and you can attach a client to it (amarok connects and there's even an android app that'll connect to it.)

[red-wolf76]

Yeah, and I hear they also had an update in the last 2 1/2 years, which this thread hasn't had

...and which I totally missed...