r/musichoarder

Over the past 2 years, I've amassed a huge FLAC collection on iBroadcast.

Now, however I'm considering physical storage because as we all know, services go down all the time. I have a buuuunch of old MP3s on my desktop PC that have moved with me from computer to computer, but I am absolutely unable to store the mammoth online collection I've been growing.

I've started downloading and converting my most listened to albums from FLAC to MP3 320. I just don't have the space for FLAC right now, especially while storage is so expensive.

Anyone else doing similar? MP3s are just more compatible. I guess I could download everything in .ogg aswell and convert when needed...

Over the past few weeks I've been doing a significant cleanup of the Lidarr wiki. The short version: the FAQ had become a dumping ground, half the settings page was blank, and several of the most common questions people ask here had no good page to link to. That's mostly fixed now.

What changed:

The FAQ was rebuilt from scratch based on what people actually ask — the old version had 41 entries, many of which were outdated or answered questions nobody was asking. It's now about 20 focused entries with better answers and links out to deeper pages instead of trying to cram everything into one place.

Two new troubleshooting pages were added that didn't exist before:

• Import Troubleshooting — covers why a finished download doesn't auto-import, how the match-quality scoring works, when manual import is the right path, and how import list items get resolved. This is probably the most common class of question here.
• Metadata Troubleshooting — covers missing or wrong albums, the MusicBrainz refresh cycle, how to bust the metadata cache, Various Artists edge cases, and how to actually get a missing release into MusicBrainz so Lidarr can see it.

The Settings page went from partially written to full coverage — every section, including Media Management, all the profile types, Indexers, Download Clients, Connect, General, and the rest.

Custom Scripts was rewritten with real working examples (event logger, Discord webhook, Plex library refresh, health alert) and a corrected variable reference — the old page had wrong casing on several variables, which broke scripts silently on Linux.

Tips and Tricks now has a Custom Formats section with working JSON definitions and scoring recommendations for a FLAC-focused library, plus folder structure guidance.

There's also a new Beets Integration page for people running beets alongside Lidarr.

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Where you come in:

The goal is for the wiki to be good enough that when someone asks a question here, there's always a link worth sending. I'm not there yet — I know there are gaps.

If you ask a question and the wiki doesn't answer it (or answers it badly), please say so in this thread. That's the most useful feedback. If you search the wiki and can't find something you'd expect to be there, same deal.

Things I know are still incomplete: the PostgreSQL setup page needs a rewrite, the Contributing guide is outdated, and the Settings page is still missing Quality Profiles and a few other sections. Those are in progress.

The wiki is at wiki.servarr.com/lidarr.

I hava an issue with the mp3 archive with no comer. I sowload some disc from soulseek and some of them dont hace comer. I use mp3tag to add the cover but in those archives that doesnt bring the cover it always fail and fall the programa. WhatsApp can i do?. Thx

Inspired by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/1spejs3/decline_of_dynamic_range_and_increase_in_loudness/

I recently got an Atmos mix of an album out of curiosity, and noticed that the stereo downmix sounded substantially better than the lossless version I already had. That led me to make the following comparison with a couple of popular albums:

**Ghost — Meliora**: The FLAC (CD master) sits around −7 to −8 LUFS integrated, with true peaks hitting +1.5 to +3.5 dBTP on most tracks — that's above 0 dBFS, meaning actual clipping baked into the master. The M4A stereo downmix from the Atmos version on Apple Music clusters tightly around −17 LUFS with peaks around −3 to −5 dBTP. No clipping, more dynamic.

https://preview.redd.it/ofcefmaoggxg1.png?width=1472&format=png&auto=webp&s=bef245d0818497f21a7a500998f1fc30d7d0d8e5

**Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti**: Same story, even wider gap. FLACs all jammed between −7 and −11 LUFS with peaks above 0. M4As range from −18 to −23 LUFS depending on the track, with clean peaks well below 0.

These results confirm what are obvious when listening to each version - the stereo Atmos downmixes are significantly more dynamic and sound DRAMATICALLY better than the official, overly loud versions.

The takeaway is to check to see if some of your favorite music is available in dolby atmos. Grab that version if you can, and check to see how it compares with the lossless versions. It might sound better to your ears!

Many albums have multiple releases and remasters. Is there a way to detect which version of an album you might have, if it isn't labelled correctly/has accompanying documentation? Perhaps based on the gain or something?

What would be the best software to compare two music files to each other? I will be sorting through my old MP3 collection in a few months and I want to be able to compare files and keep the best quality version of each one. What would be the best software to do that?

Hello looking for an alternative to these where I can download high quality music.. on android. Doesn't have to be flac. Something similar to a YouTube music layout , however with all songs correctly named/tagged etc before downloading.

I've been using mp3tag with lutris but suddenly the folder rename feature broke and Ive tried a bunch of different programs and idk what i can use to simply rename the folder a song is in with the tags and functions i want, without having to manually move around and rename things to get over software limitations

what im trying to get is this in mp3tag:

$replace(%catalognumber% %albumartist% - %album% '['Web $left(%year%,4)']',:,∶)

is there any linux software that can do this without it being an absolute nightmare? (the closest thing ive found is picard that seems like it might work but would require an extra step of moving everything back and forth which i would like to avoid)

Has anyone found a way to buy music from other countries if you're in the US? Specifically Amazon.

I found a track that I want on Amazon UK that's not available in the US, but all attempts at buying it have failed. I tried VPN and I tried creating an account at Amazon UK, but neither would work.

Edit: It's not available on any file sharing services, like Soulseek.

I was able to grab it from one of those online Amazon downloader sites, but it gave me 128kbps flac transcode. I'm not sure if that's the downloader issue of if that's how Amazon UK is hosting it.

Desperately looking for an audio player app (macOS) that supports an art grid and can sort by Album Artist > Album by Year (in chronological order). It seems like all modern music apps that get created today miss this simple sorting option giving only an alphabetical option -- it's laughable.

Anyone have any suggestions?

recently downloaded songs that i want to put on my ipod. i tried to rename and reorganize with picard but it got messed up and the albums got split also the they got put into folders with artist names. i tried to fix it with musicbee and mp3tag but i couldn’t fix it. id appreciate any help, im new to this but im not getting anywhere on my own. thank you

What software(s?) will write to playcount tags instead of their own internal DB?

I've been trying and trying to find a way to have my music play count reliably maintained across devices, without needing internet. I've got the music files themselves being copied between laptop (currently windows) and phone (android), and that works great.

However, no matter what I do or try and configure, I can't quite find software that will write the play count to the file instead of to their own internal DB.

Even if it's not the same piece of software on each device, i'm perfectly content to have one app on windows, another on android, and another on linux, as long as they all read and write the playcount in the file.

The CD is called Crunch Time Vol.1 and it was made by the rapper Tabu. I thought it would be of some value so I bought it and realized it is signed by Tabu on the front of the case. The album features Jay-z, Snoop Dogg, and Notorious BIG, but I’m not sure if the tape would be of much value because I can’t find the mixtape in many places online. Can anyone help me with this?