r/selfhosted

5h ago

u/Camminatore

Looking for smooth music download/tagging experience (with slskd)

Need Help

My music setup for over a year has been slskd + beets. I manually search for an album on slskd with minbitrate:320 and mp3, and then have to ssh into the vm to run beet import which does all the tagging and even fetching genres. This has been fine but I would like something smoother, like how I can have with seerr to easily discover and download music and shows.

Back when I was setting this up, there weren't many projects available. Now I found that there are many, and I tried a few: DroppedNeedle, Aurral, Diggar (which I couldn't get running), soulbeet, crate. I found that many of these are embarassingly slopped, and the UI is a complete nightmare with a million options and text everywhere. In general it seems that these projects are trying to achieve way more than what I'm after.…