Hello everyone! It's been about a month that I'm experimenting Debian on an external disk. For the most time, I've been using Testing. The issue is, that some packages are missing from Testing, while they exist on Stable (or on Unstable). The biggest problem with that is that some packages require dependencies that don't exist on the Testing repo and as such I can't install those apps.

So, I thought about adding the Stable repo, at a lower priority. If something doesn't exist on Testing, it will grab it from Stable.

How bad is that approach? I'm not doing the reverse (using stable and grabbing apps from testing), which might be way worse. Does anyone else do that? I couldn't find anything related online.

PS. I'm a bit tempted to switch to Unstable all together, but I don't know if I'll be careful enough to use it in the long run.

PPS. I might build a home nas at some point (with Debian Stable) and keep regular backups of my laptop so that I'll be kinda safe if I ever switch to Unstable.

Context:

I'm currently running Debian 12.7 on VirtualBox, trying out linux before I become experienced enough to fully switch my drive to linux. I have an i5 cpu and an amd radeon gpu on my laptop. I run kde-plasma with wayland.

I have sorted out some basic stuff, but my current problem is how to play the few games I have on linux ("Counter-strike 1.6", "Hades I", "MGR: Revengeance", "Minecraft" (t-launcher) and "Outer-Wilds"). I want ro move their game data too, but I think that's a simple copy paste on the appropriate paths. I also want to run a few other programs, possibly Notepad++ and mp3tag, but I think I can figure those if I fugre the games.

I know about the existance of Wine, Winetricks (though not very good at using it), Proton, Lutris, Bottles and Heroic (and PlayOnLinux which I haven't installed).

I have installed Lutris (flatpak), Bottles (flatpak) and Heroic (Appimage).

I have successfully manually installed Notepad++ in Bottles using soda-9.0.1 and semi-successfully manually installed Counter-strike 1.6 on Lutris using wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. The issues with that (among others?) is that I cant look around with the mouse and there is no audio. Apparently some dependencies are missing.

So, this comes to my question:

How do I figure what dependencies to use on my wineprefixes?

Lutris, bottles and heroic theoritically allow you to edit the dependencies, in case something goes wrong. Lutris also is supposed to have some installation scripts on their database.

Is there any way I can find any configuration in text form? How can I then use this text to pick the dependencies myself?

I'm thinking of a list with the recommended changes:

Counter-strike 1.6 installation script:

Install Windows fonts

Install cmd

Install vcrun2013

Do X changes on registry

etc.

Is there such a thing? Is there any other way to figure this out (other than painfully and randomly trying setup combinations)?

[The guide isn't mine and I'm not affiliated with it, I'm just sharing a mind-blown moment for me.]

Over the years, I have gathered many notebooks that admittedly not all contain very important information and take up a lot of space (possibly a cubic meter or more). But being kind of a (data)hoarder, I dont want to just throw them away. It's work that took years.

My solution: scanning them. My phone has a built-in camera scanner that does a suprisingly good job (it helps that the camera is kinda good too), so I have scanned thousands of pages so far. But the process is slow and takes a lot of manual labor (flipping pages, aligning pages, retaking bad photos, creating pds etc.). A typical notebook (~120pages) may take me 15minutes or more.

So I thought that maybe I could speed up the process (partially at least) by either buying a scanner or paying someone to scan them (I don't have a proper scanner, yet). Removing the pages without damaging them is a challenge though. That's where the guide in the link comes in: it turns out it's very easy to remove the spiral spring from the notebooks! I was gonna pull the pages until I found that guide. I suppose it's also very easy to remove the staples from staple-bound notebooks too. I might just have "won" many hours of my life with this idea.

The video in the guide that helped me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfMUVpwLZGM

(For the record, my xiaomi 10 phone can scan items by creating ~20MP images which translates to typical-to-high resolutions if I scan A4 or A5 pages. Fortunately, many scanners can reach that quality. I just need them not to apply any weird effects or compression to the scanned document.)

Yesterday, after this conversation with Wild Bill, we concluded that Deemix can't download songs from spotify playlists. It does recognize the songs in the playlists, but somehow it fails to download them and reports cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'flac') (on Bill's pc it only reports cannot read properties of undefined). If you hover the cursor over the error, a tooltip comes up with more info:

TypeError Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'flac')
at f (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:94278)
at z (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:94979)
at process.processTicks.AndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async Downloader.download (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:97603)
at async Downloader.downloadWrapper (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:102154)
at async C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:96320

You can't just paste the spotify playlists link in the search bar and download the playlist.

Apparently, Spotify or Deezer or somethibg else changed their api or something and is giving Deemix a hard time.

Notes:

• It worked for me about half a year ago (I have downloaded around 3k songs that way).

• I can download individual songs from spotify with their link.

• The tracking parameter spotify adds in the end doesnt seem to play any role, as the playlists dont get downloaded whether I remove the parameter or not and individual songs get downloaded whether I remove the parameter or not.

• I tried creating a new "app" in spotify developer dashboard and use its iIDs, but it didnt help.

• I also tried adding the "Web Playback SDK" kit in the spotify app, but it didnt help (I have the "Web API" on at all times btw). Spotify shows in the dashboard that I have indeed made calls to their api by downloding songs.

• I'm using the latest deemix-gui version (I think): 2022.12.14-r222.5d447b6035.

• I'm using it on windows 10.

• If you want to see my settings, it's under the Deemix settings section in this guide I made https://mander.xyz/post/13720820

• I use a hifi account (from a random arl). I also tried another account, still didnt help.

• The same issue occurs when downloading mp3, not just flac

• I tried downloading playlists which deemix had successfully downloaded in the past, it failed. I even tried creating new playlists for deemix to download, it failed again.

I tried searching the error online, ~nothing related to deemix came up. This is the deemix gitlab repository, in case it helps anyone with finding more info.

Plz halp.

So my main language is Greek and I read english and greek books. Depending on the book/author I may have 2-5 words per page that I may not understand (or at least I want to understand them better). Thus, many times after I finish a page, I use aard2 and either search the word in the english-to-english dictionary or (rarer) in the greek wiktionary for a translation. (For context, I'm reading ~mainly fantasy, sci-fi or dystopian books of the 20th and 21th century and currently I'm on "Croocked kingdom". I haven't dared to try reading a classic book in english.)

The issue is that this effectively slows me down by an extra ~50% time per page and I'm not even very sure that those words are remembered. I could simply keep reading without searching the words up and just use the context to get a vague sense of their meaning (or simply ignore them as they ~usually aren't necessary to the plot), but I think I'd miss on the whole experience by doing this and it doesn't address the underlying issue (being that I don't know english extremely well even if I have C2 and scored high on vocabulary), which will perpetuate the problem. I'd like to note that I have made searching words almost as efficient as it gets by using downloaded dictionaries, so I don't think I can reduce the time I spend looking up words by anything more, at least on paper books.

I'd like to ask anyone who searches up words like me:

Did you eventually reach a point where you learnt enough words this way, that it wasn't that much necessary to use dictionaries anymore? (I'd be kinda satisfied if I could reduce the frequnecy of unknown words to 1 per two pages or something.)

Go to your uploads on your profile and delete anything you don't want. Very helpful in case you upload anything sentitive by mistake (I remember an issue on github about this).

Happens about 20mins after I wake up.

Hello people

Im trying to find music that aligns with my views and opinions, so that I can listen to it guilt-free and simply enjoy it. I have some prerequisites/requirements and some preferences. I want to ask you if you can share any artist/band (or songs if you dont know any artists) that matches all the prerequisites and if possible any of the preferences.

The prerequisites about the artists(/songs):

1. They have leftist (and anti-capitalist) opinions

2. They have feminist (and anti-patriarchist) opinions

3. They are friendly towards all the queer community (including non-binary and trans people)

4. They have atheistic/agnostic opinions

5. They have anti-racist opinions (I forgot to add this, I took it as granted, provided all the previous requirements were passed😅. I'm editing my post to add it.)

The preferences about the artists(/songs):

a) They dont promote self-destructive behaviours (like substance/alcohol abuse). I dont have any issue with them singing about such behaviours, but I want to see them trying to help people get out of this situation. (This one could be a prerequisite too, but then there would almost no artist that would pass my requirements..)

b) They express their opinions in the songs by singing about social issues and such

c) Their genre is rap/metal/rock (generally I tend to prefer songs that have some anger/that are powerful)

d) They sing mainly in either English or Greek (the languages I know well so that I can understand them😅). I also know some German, so that could be a good option too. And I'd like to learn Spanish some time. (If you know artists/songs that sing in other languages, you're welcome to share them)

Please, I would like anything you share to pass my prerequisites and to mention any of my preferences that it matches (in case it doesn't pass any of the prerequistes at least mention it). I have them all in order to make it easier for you.

So for example, the band "Rationalistas" (a greek rap band) passes the prerequistes and seems to match b), c) and d) preferences (I listen to them almost exclusively this week, lol).

Another artist that seem pass my requirements seems to be Macklemore (as seen on "Hinds hall") and matches c) and d) of my preferences (and in some songs I think he matches a) and b) too).

Demi Lovato in her HOLY FVCK album seems to pass my requirements (though not sure about the 1.) and probably matches all of my preferences.

Jesse Welles seems to pass my requirements as well and matches at least b) and d) of my preferences.

Lemmy seems to opinions similar to what my requirements are, so I kinda hope I might get good recommendations here.

(For even greater coverage, I've cross-posted this on the ~equally active music community on hexbear https://mander.xyz/post/14452658. Sharing the link in case you want to find extra material, I might combine all the recommendations eventually in a list or a playlist.)

Here I'm gonna list ~anything you and I suggest:

boundries

Brkovi (Balkan Punk.)

Chat Pile

Clarion Knell (Marxist band)

crust

Destrage (Italian metalcore band)

Dubioza Kolektiv(Balkan Punk.)

dying (pro-palestine before it was cool)

Feminazgul (RABM (Red/Anarchist Black Metal) band)

foreign hands

Incendiary

Iskra (RABM (Red/Anarchist Black Metal)

king gizzard and the lizard wizard

kittie

Knocked Loose (Metalcore band)

Kultur Shock (Balkan Punk.)

Maximum the Hormone

Misery Index

nothingface

Panopticon

Protest the Hero

Realm and Ritual (RABM/Dungeon Synth tape label)

S.A.R.S (Balkan Punk.)

Sankara (Marxist band)

seeyouspacecowboy

sepultura

soulfly

stick to your guns (melodic heavy hardcore)

unearth (anti-fascist, eco-anarchist, closer to traditional metal then metalcore)

Wolves in the Throne Room (not political but spoke out against fascists)

Yellow Eyes (not political but spoke out against fascists) :::

[Original date of post creation: 2024-06-02]

Hello everyone!

For a long time, I wanted to write a guide with my process of donwloading and tagging songs (I can use it as a guide for me in case I forget it, haha). Anything here is a suggestion, you can do it differently if you want. (This guide is for windows (10) devices, linux tools may be different. I haven't moved to Linux, yet..) This is gonna be long.

Tools we may need:

(online means that they don't have to be installed)

-- Deemix to download songs from deezer (open source).

-- Soulseek platfrom to share music. There is an android open source client SeekerAndroid and a PC open source client Nicotine+.

-- TuneMyMusic website to create/edit/import/export playlists to/from/in various music platfrom (online). It can also export in text.

-- ytDownloader to download songs from Youtube (for PC, open source). It can also download videos/songs from many other sources, acts as a gui for yt-dpl.

-- Seal to download songs from Youtube (for android, open source). It can also download videos/songs from many other sources, acts as a gui for yt-dpl.

-- Mp3tag (for Linux you can use puddletag, but I can't help you with that as of now) to manually (and batch) edit tags of my downloaded songs (closed source freeware, until recently I thought it was open source.. I might replace it with Kid3 if I ever get to know how to use it). Mp3tag has "actions" which help you do batch edit of metadata, like format the filename of a song using the artist and title tags (and with ctrl+a you can select all songs to apply that action).

-- OneTagger to automatically tag songs (open source). It can fetch metadata from various platforms, like musicbrainz, deeer, spotify, musixmatch, bandcamp, discogs etc.

-- LyricsGenius python program to fetch data from genius using genius api (open source).

-- lrcget to batch fetch lyrics from lrclib (open source).

-- lrclib website with synced and unsynced lyrics (online).

-- Genius website with unsynced lyrics, song metadata and lyrics interpretations (online).

-- Notepad++ to edit text (open source).

-- fre:ac to convert my files from .flac to .opus (open source). It can do many more, it can also rip CDs etc.

-- Quodlibet windows/linux/macos music player (open source). Very good.

-- Symphony android music player (open source). Very good.

-- ListenBrainz to record my listening history (open source, online). It has an offcial open source android client too. Many music players (on pc at least) have plug-ins that support ListenBrainz.

-- Noteable mentions: Simplest file renamer to batch rename files or get a list of the filenames in a folder (open source) and Libre Office to use the Office calc funtions (open source).

The download part:

I will be using Deemix as my primary source, Soulseek for anything else and Youtube when I can't find my song anywhere else.

Deemix needs an account, so you can probably find a ARL here (arl is like a token for an account). If the link doesn't work in the future, you'll have to find it yourself. Soulseek simply needs a free account (but there it is encouraged to share your music with others).

In Deemix you can search songs seperately or download playlists (either from deemix or spotify). You can create spotify playlists from various sources (even text list) with TuneMyMusic.

Deemix settings:

-- Use this trackname template in all occasions:

%artist% - %title% [%year%]

-- Save covers at 1200 size in .png format

-- Save all tags apart from copyright

-- Set concurent downloads to 1, because it makes sure songs from playlists get downloaded with the same order in the playlist (it helps me check later what has been downloaded properly) and makes it harder to be detected.

-- Set it to download Flac and set it to create .lrc files

-- Turn on Keep "Various artists" in the Album artists

-- Use YYYY-MM-DD date format

-- Set it to remove "featured artists" from the title

-- Add your Spotify account with the proper tokens/credentials

Youtube: either use yt-dpl or ytDonloader (it has a gui)

The tagging part (the longest part):

Our main tools will be Mp3tag and OneTagger. OneTagger will fetch the tags and Mp3tag will edit them.

First, we will create our folder structure which we will use:

-- Create a folder 1T.

-- Inside create 10 more: 0 Raw, 1 Deezer, 2 Spotify, 3 Musicbrainz, 4 Bandcamp, 5 Musixmatch, 6 Opus, 7 Final, Images, Texts.

-- Inside the 7 Final folder create 2 more: Flac and Opus.

I will first describe how to set up OneTagger, Mp3tag and anything else and then I'll describe the steps.

OneTagger settings:

(!Attention!) I mention any changes from the default, anything else I'll probably not mention it.

Some terms explained before we start:

-- ReleaseID is the part after the last / of the deezer url of the album which the song belongs to. i.e. from this link https://www.deezer.com/en/album/5447741 the id is 5447741.

-- TrackID is the part after the last / of the deezer url of the album which the song belongs to. If you download a song from Deemix, it usually has the TrackID saved in the SOURCEID tag. i.e. from this link https://www.deezer.com/en/track/55848051 the id is 55848051.

First we will create our AutoTag profiles:

1) Create new profile 1 Deezer

(This is for songs downloaded with Deemix, the 6th profile is the universal alternative.)

-- In platforms tab select Deezer as platform

-- In tags tab, select Version, Label, ReleaseID, Catalog Number, Disc Number, OneTagger Tags. (Select album art only if you want to change the art or you haven't downloaded the songs from deemix). Select as input the path of the folder 0 Raw.

-- In platform specific settings set Album Art resolution to 1600 (Redundant step)

-- In advanced turn on only ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 1 Deezer folder underneath. In the overwrite tags area, add those tags: Version, Label, ReleaseID, Catalog Number, Disc Number, OneTagger Tags. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators.

2) Create new profile 2 Spotify

-- In platforms tab select Spotify as platform

-- In tags tab, select Album Artist, ReleaseID, TrackID, URL. Select as input the path of the folder 1 Deezer.

-- In platform specific settings put in your Spotify credentials

-- In advanced turn on only ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 2 Spotify folder underneath. In the overwrite tags area, add those tags: Album Artist, ReleaseID, TrackID, URL. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators.

3) Create new profile 3 Musicbrainz

-- In platforms tab select Musicbrainz as platform

-- In tags tab, select Genre, ReleaseID, TrackID, URL. Select as input the path of the folder 2 Spotify.

-- In advanced turn on only ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 3 Musicbrainz folder underneath. In the overwrite tags area, add those tags: Genre, ReleaseID, TrackID, URL. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators.

4) Create new profile 4 Bandcamp

-- In platforms tab select Bandcamp as platform

-- In tags tab, select Genre, Style/Subgenre, ReleaseID, TrackID. Select as input the path of the folder 3 Musicbrainz.

-- In advanced turn on only ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 4 Bandcamp folder underneath. In the overwrite tags area, add those tags: Genre, Style/Subgenre, ReleaseID, TrackID. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators. In Genre/Style/Subgenre options select Merge to Genre tag.

5) Create new profile 5 Musixmatch

-- In platforms tab select Musixmatch as platform

-- In tags tab, select Unsynced Lyrics, Synced Lyrics. Select as input the path of the folder 4 Bandcamp.

-- In advanced turn on only ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Write .LRC file, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 5 Musixmatch folder underneath. In the overwrite tags area, add those tags: Unsynced Lyrics, Synced Lyrics. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators. In Genre/Style/Subgenre options select Merge to Genre tag.

Extra/Secondary profiles to use when you don't tag songs downloaded from Deemix:

6) Create new profile 1 Deezer - Universal

-- In platforms tab select Deezer as platform

-- In tags tab, select everything apart from Explicit and Album Art (select album art only if you want to change the art or you haven't downloaded the songs from deemix). Select as input the path of the folder 0 Raw.

-- In platform specific settings set Album Art resolution to 1600 (Redundant step)

-- In advanced turn on only Overwrite tags, ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 1 Deezer folder underneath. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators.

7) Create new profile 2 Spotify - Universal

-- In platforms tab select Spotify as platform

-- In tags tab, select Artist, Album Artist, ReleaseID, TrackID, ISRC, URL. Select as input the path of the folder 1 Deezer.

-- In platform specific settings put in your Spotify credentials

-- In advanced turn on only ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 2 Spotify folder underneath. In the overwrite tags area, add those tags: Artist, ReleaseID, TrackID, ISRC, URL. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators.

8) Create new profile 3 Musicbrainz - Universal

-- In platforms tab select Musicbrainz as platform

-- In tags tab, select Genre, ReleaseID, TrackID, ISRC, URL. Select as input the path of the folder 2 Spotify.

-- In advanced turn on only ID3v2.4, Identify tracks with Shazam, Move successfully tagged files after taggins and add the path of the 3 Musicbrainz folder underneath. In the overwrite tags area, add those tags: Genre, ReleaseID, TrackID, ISRC, URL. Set track number leading zeros to 2 and use // as separators.

These are all the profiles we will need.

Next we will set up the Audio Features tab:

-- Put in your spotify credentials and log in.

-- In the Select Input field put the path of the 5 Musixmatch folder.

-- Leave properties as they are.

-- In separators section use // as the separators.

-- In advanced section enable the Write OneTagger meta tag and Include subfolders. Disable the Skip already tagged tracks.

And now OneTagger is set up.

Mp3tag setup:

1) First we will create an export configuration which we will use later:

-- Create a new configuration csv for py script (only artist and title), and edit it using this as the code:

$filename(titleartistlist.csv,utf-16)artist	title
$loop(%_filename_ext%)$meta_sep(artist,$char(44) )	%title%
$loopend()

-- Set export filename to titleartistlist.csv and add behind it the path of the Texts folder we created before (we want the exported file to be inside the Texts folder)

2) Then we will create our actions:

(I will write the name and the steps needed to create each action)

1. wwwaudio to wwwaudiosource (Deezer) from Deemix

-- Create a format action type: set field to WWWAUDIOSOURCE and format string to https://www.deezer.com/track/%sourceid%

2. wwwaudio to www (Spotify)

-- Create a format action type: set field to WWW and format string to %wwwaudiofile%

3a. Format 1 rating

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING and format string to 20

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING WMP and format string to 1

3b. Format 1 rating

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING and format string to 40

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING WMP and format string to 64

3c. Format 1 rating

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING and format string to 60

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING WMP and format string to 128

3d. Format 1 rating

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING and format string to 80

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING WMP and format string to 192

3e. Format 1 rating

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING and format string to 100

-- Create a format action type: set field to RATING WMP and format string to 255

4. Filename format artist - title [year]( -- [YT])

-- Create a format action type: set field to _FILENAME and format string to $meta_sep(artist,; ) - %title% $char(91)$left(%year%,4)$char(93)$if($geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)YT$char(93)),1), -- $char(91)YT$char(93),)

-- Note: $char(91) is [ and $char(93) is ]

4b. Filename format artist - title [year]( -- [YT])

-- Create a format action type: set field to _FILENAME and format string to $meta_sep(artist,; ) - %title%$if($geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)YT$char(93)),1), -- $char(91)YT$char(93),)

5. Add-Fix [Xstar(s)] genre

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($or($geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)5stars$char(93)),1),$geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)4stars$char(93)),1),$geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)3stars$char(93)),1),$geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)2stars$char(93)),1),$geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)1star$char(93)),1),$geql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)0star$char(93)),1)),$replace($meta_sep(genre,\\\\),$char(91)5stars$char(93),$char(91)$div(%rating%,20)star$ifgreater(%rating%,20,s,)$char(93),$char(91)4stars$char(93),$char(91)$div(%rating%,20)star$ifgreater(%rating%,20,s,)$char(93),$char(91)3stars$char(93),$char(91)$div(%rating%,20)star$ifgreater(%rating%,20,s,)$char(93),$char(91)2stars$char(93),$char(91)$div(%rating%,20)star$ifgreater(%rating%,20,s,)$char(93),$char(91)1star$char(93),$char(91)$div(%rating%,20)star$ifgreater(%rating%,20,s,)$char(93),$char(91)0star$char(93),$char(91)$div(%rating%,20)star$ifgreater(%rating%,20,s,)$char(93)),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\)\\\\$char(91)$div(%rating%,20)star$ifgreater(%rating%,20,s,)$char(93))

6. Replace hiphoprap and Capitalise Genre

-- Create a replace action type: set field to GENRE, original to Hip-hop-rap and replace with Rap/Hip-Hop

-- Create a replace action type: set field to GENRE, original to Rap/Hip Hop and replace with Rap/Hip-Hop

-- Create a case conversion action type: set field to GENRE, case conversion to Mixed Case and words begin from/after any of ;/&[- (the spacebar is not a typo)

7. Synced Lyrics from lrc

(this has a lot of steps because we use regular expressions to fix the line breaks)

-- Create an Import text file action type: set field to SYNCEDLYRICS and filename %_filename%.lrc

-- Create a replace with regular expression action type: set field to SYNCEDLYRICS, regular expression to \]\x20, replace with \] and don't use case-sensitive comparison

-- Create a replace with regular expression action type: set field to SYNCEDLYRICS, regular expression to \]\x20, replace with \] and don't use case-sensitive comparison

-- Create a replace with regular expression action type: set field to SYNCEDLYRICS, regular expression to (\]\r\n|\]\n), replace with \]\x{266A}\n and don't use case-sensitive comparison

-- Create a replace with regular expression action type: set field to SYNCEDLYRICS, regular expression to \r, replace with `` (nothing, blank) and don't use case-sensitive comparison

-- Create a format action type: set field to SYNCEDLYRICS and format string to $if($strcmp($right(%syncedlyrics%,1),$char(93)),%syncedlyrics%$char(9834),%syncedlyrics%)

-- Create a format action type: set field to SYNCEDLYRICS and format string to $char(91)ti:%title%$char(93)$char(10)$char(91)ar:%artist%$char(93)$char(10)%syncedlyrics%

-- Create a format action type: set field to LYRICS and format string to %syncedlyrics%

-- Create a replace with regular expression action type: set field to LYRICS, regular expression to (\[\d\d\:\d\d.\d\d\]|\[\d\d\:\d\d.\d\d\d]), replace with `` (nothing, blank) and don't use case-sensitive comparison

-- Create a format action type: set field to UNSYNCEDLYRICS and format string to %lyrics%

8. Export artist and title for genius and backup year and cover

-- Create an export action type: pick the csv for py script (only artist and title) we've created and set export filename to titleartistlist.csv and add behind it the path of the Texts folder we created before (we want the exported file to be inside the Texts folder)

-- Create a format action type: set field to DEEZER_YEAR and format string to %year%

-- Create an export cover to file action and in the format string add the path to the Images\Old\%_filename%_Deezer (from the Images folder we've created). This will act as a backup of our images. Note that it adds the _Deezer name at the end of each filename, this may cause inaccuracies if we use songs that have images from different sources.

9. Merge, trim, and genius Year

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to YEAR and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to GENIUS_YEAR, original to None and replace with 00

-- Create a replace with regular expression action type: set field to GENIUS_YEAR, regular expression to (\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+), replace with $1-$if($eql($len($2),1),0$2,$2)-$if($eql($len($3),1),0$3,$3) and don't use case-sensitive comparison

-- Create a format action type: set field to YEAR and format string to $if($grtr($len(%year%),10),$cutLeft(%year%,6),%year%)

-- Create a format action type: set field to YEAR and format string to $if($or($eql($left(%genius_year%,1),0),$and($strstr(%genius_year%,$char(45)00$char(45)00),$and($eql($len(%deezer_year%),10),$leql($if($less($sub($left(%genius_year%,4),$left(%deezer_year%,4)),0),$mul(-1,$sub($left(%genius_year%,4),$left(%deezer_year%,4))),$sub($left(%genius_year%,4),$left(%deezer_year%,4))),1)))),%deezer_year%,%genius_year%)

Genre adding [YT]

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($eql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)YT$char(93)),0),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\)\\\\$char(91)YT$char(93),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\))

Genre adding [Instrument@l]

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($eql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)Instrument$char(64)l$char(93)),0),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\)\\\\$char(91)Instrument$char(64)l$char(93),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\))

Genre adding [Gr33k]

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($eql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)Gr33k$char(93)),0),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\)\\\\$char(91)Gr33k$char(93),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\))

Genre adding [8b@ll]

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($eql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)8B$char(64)ll$char(93)),0),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\)\\\\$char(91)8B$char(64)ll$char(93),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\))

Genre adding [Nitr0]

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($eql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)Nitr0$char(93)),0),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\)\\\\$char(91)Nitr0$char(93),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\))

Genre adding [F@vourites]

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($eql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)F$char(64)vourites$char(93)),0),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\)\\\\$char(91)F$char(64)vourites$char(93),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\))

Remove favourite genre

-- Create a format action type: set field to GENRE and format string to $if($eql($strstr($meta_sep(genre,\\),$char(91)F$char(64)vourites$char(93)),0),$meta_sep(genre,\\\\),$replace($meta_sep(genre,\\\\),$char(91)F$char(64)vourites$char(93),))

Source to Deezer

-- Create a format action type: set field to SOURCE and format string to Deezer

wwwaudio to wwwaudiosource (Deezer)

-- Create a format action type: set field to WWWAUDIOSOURCE and format string to %wwwaudiofile%

Merge and split tags

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to ALBUMARTIST and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to ALBUMARTIST, original to \\ and replace with ;

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to ARTIST and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to ARTIST, original to \\ and replace with ;

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to GENRE and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to GENRE, original to \\ and replace with ;

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to PUBLISHER and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to PUBLISHER, original to \\ and replace with ;

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to AUTHOR and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to AUTHOR, original to \\ and replace with ;

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to COMPOSER and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to COMPOSER, original to \\ and replace with ;

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to AUDIO_FEATURES and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to AUDIO_FEATURES, original to \\ and replace with ;

-- Create a merge duplicate fields action type: set field to LABEL and separator to \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to LABEL, original to \\ and replace with ;

; to double inverted slash

-- Create a replace action type: set field to ARTIST, original to ; and replace with \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to GENRE, original to ; and replace with \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to ALBUMARTIST, original to ; and replace with \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to AUDIO_FEATURES, original to ; and replace with \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to PUBLISHER, original to ; and replace with \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to LABEL, original to ; and replace with \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to COMPOSER, original to ; and replace with \\

-- Create a replace action type: set field to AUTHOR, original to ; and replace with \\

And these were all the actions we needed!

3) Next we will create our python script that will fetch data from genius:

For this we first need to install the LyricsGenius program from github. Our script will use that program.

I'll just copy paste the code. Name it genius_data_fetcher.py and saved it in the Texts folder we've created.

This script takes a titleartistlist.csv list we create and it creates a geniusdata.txt file which contains the following items separated by tab: geniusID, url, genius song cover url, genius song cover url, arists and title. It also adds in the begging the date or at least the year or year-month (if they exist, otherwise their data slots are filled with zeroes). Lastly it adds in the end of each line the artists and the title of each song it reads from the list. Currently I have disabled/commented out the part that downloads the images, as it's not much necessary.

Remeber to change the path to match the appropriate folders on your device and use your own Genius token (replace the PlaceholderForYourGeniusToken)!

import csv
import requests
from lyricsgenius import Genius
genius = Genius('PlaceholderForYourGeniusToken', timeout=20, sleep_time=1)

'''
#imports two .txt
#importing title list
with open("title_list.txt",'r', encoding='utf-16') as titles_file:
    titlelist = titles_file.read().splitlines()
titles_file.close()

# importing artist list
with open("artist_list.txt",'r', encoding='utf-16') as artist_file:
    artistlist = artist_file.read().splitlines()
artist_file.close()
'''

titlelist = []
artistlist = []

with open('C:\\Users\BS\\Downloads\\1T\\Texts\\titleartistlist.csv', mode='r', encoding='utf-16') as csv_file:
    csv_reader = csv.DictReader(csv_file, delimiter='\t')
    #line_count = 0
    for row in csv_reader:
        '''if line_count == 0:
            #print(f'Column names are {", ".join(row)}')
            #print(row["title"])
            line_count += 1
        #print(f'{row["title"]} ; {row["title"]}')
        else:'''
        #print(row["artist"])
        artistlist.append(row["artist"])
        titlelist.append(row["title"])
        #line_count += 1
    #print(f'Processed {line_count} lines.\n')

array_length = len(artistlist)
#searching genius
with open('C:\\Users\BS\\Downloads\\1T\\Texts\\geniusdata.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-16') as gd:
    for i in range(array_length):
        SArtist = artistlist[i]
        STitle = titlelist[i]
        song = genius.search_song(STitle, SArtist)
        if song is None:
            gd.write('0000-00-00\t0000\t0000\t0000\t0000\t0000')  #00 or 0000 as error code
            gd.write('\t')
            gd.write(SArtist)
            gd.write('\t')
            gd.write(STitle)
            gd.write('\n')
        else:
            song_dict = song.to_dict()
            RDate=song_dict.get('release_date_components')
            if RDate is None:
                line = ['0000-00-00\t',
                    str(song_dict.get('id')),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('url'),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('song_art_image_url'),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('artist_names'),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('title'),'\t',
                    SArtist,'\t',STitle,'\n']
                gd.writelines(line)
                #uncomment the next two blocks of code if you want to download the images as well
                '''image_url = song_dict.get('song_art_image_url') #downloads image
                default_url_check = image_url.find('default_cover_image.png')   #checks default image
                print(default_url_check)
                if default_url_check == -1:
                    file_destination = ''.join(['C:\\Users\BS\\Downloads\\1T\\Images\\Genius\\',image_url.rsplit('/', 1)[-1]])
                    res = requests.get(image_url)
                    if res.status_code == 200:  # http 200 means success
                        with open(file_destination, 'wb') as file_handle:  # wb means Write Binary
                            file_handle.write(res.content)
                            file_handle.close()
                        print('Image downloaded')
                else:
                    print('Default image, skip.')'''
            else:
                line = [str(RDate.get('year')),'-',
                    str(RDate.get('month')),'-',
                    str(RDate.get('day')),'\t',
                    str(song_dict.get('id')),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('url'),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('song_art_image_url'),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('artist_names'),'\t',
                    song_dict.get('title'),'\t',
                    SArtist,'\t',STitle,'\n']
                '''image_url = song_dict.get('song_art_image_url') #downloads image
                default_url_check = image_url.find('default_cover_image')   #checks default image
                if default_url_check == -1:
                    file_destination = ''.join(['C:\\Users\BS\\Downloads\\1T\\Images\\Genius\\',image_url.rsplit('/', 1)[-1]])
                    res = requests.get(image_url)
                    if res.status_code == 200:  # http 200 means success
                        with open(file_destination, 'wb') as file_handle:  # wb means Write Binary
                            file_handle.write(res.content)
                            file_handle.close()
                        print('Image downloaded')
                else:
                    print('Default image, skip.')'''
                gd.writelines(line)
gd.close()
print('Finished!!\nGo to:\nC:\\Users\BS\\Downloads\\1T\\Texts\\')
#['_type', 'annotation_count', 'api_path', 'artist_names', 'full_title', 'header_image_thumbnail_url', 'header_image_url', 'id', 'instrumental', 'lyrics_owner_id', 'lyrics_state', 'lyrics_updated_at', 'path', 'pyongs_count', 'relationships_index_url', 'release_date_components', 'release_date_for_display', 'release_date_with_abbreviated_month_for_display', 'song_art_image_thumbnail_url', 'song_art_image_url', 'stats', 'title', 'title_with_featured', 'updated_by_human_at', 'url', 'featured_artists', 'primary_artist', 'artist', 'lyrics']

4) Now that we have our python script, we will create a batch script that will call the python script:

-- Name it GeniusFetcherCall.bat and save it inside the Texts folder. It's just 3 lines of code:

cd C:\Users\BS\Downloads\1T\Texts
python genius_data_fetcher.py
PAUSE

5) We will use this batch script to create a tool in Mp3tag:

(It makes it easier to call it without searching for the actual file.)

-- Go to File->Options->Tools->New

-- In the name field put Genius Data Fetcher and in the path field put the path of your batch script.

We have finished setting up Mp3tag!

Now it's time to actually tag the files:

1. Throw all your downloaded song files in 0 Raw folder. In case you also downloaded .lrc files, throw the .lrc files in the 5 Musixmatch folder.

2. Open OneTagger and run the 1. Deezer profile. (If the downloaded files aren't downloaded using Deemix, run the 1. Deezer - Universal profile instead.)

   (!Attention!) Re-run if there are fails/skips. If there are fails again, re-run by enabling the Force Shazam option in the advanced tab (shazam seems to stop working after 20 (successfull?) scans, so you'll have to manually cut and paste the failed scaned songs to the 1 Deezer folder. Do this section every time we run a profile and you get failed/skipped songs. Remember to move the files to the appropriate folder. (Here we move them from 0 Raw to 1 Deezer manually, because we have the set profile to only move the successfully tagged files to the next folder. I won't repeat this section in the next steps to avoid repeating myself.

   Once you're done with scanning, move all songs to the 1 Deezer folder.

   Side note: failed songs probably won't have the Deezer ReleaseID and TrackID. You can add them manually (painfull) with the edit tag tab of OneTagger (or with Mp3tag), by searching online Deezer for each song separately.

3. Open Mp3tag.

   (!Attention!) You must select the appropriate folder each time you use Mp3tag. This time we must open the 1 Deezer folder by pasting the path of the folder on the directory field located at the middle-bottom right of the window. We want to edit the newly tagged files each time, so we will change that directory after we focus on a different folder. I think simply opening the folder to where we last moved our files should be good. I want mention every time what Directory we will open.

   Select all the songs and run the action 1. wwwaudio to wwwaudiosource (Deezer) from Deemix. If you didn't get the songs using Deemix, then choose wwwaudio to wwwaudiosource (Deezer) instead. This will copy the deezer url of the songs in the WWWAUDIOSOURCE tag.

4. In OneTagger run the 2. Spotify profile. (If the downloaded files aren't downloaded using Deemix, run the 2. Spotify - Universal profile instead.)

   Once you're done with scanning, move all songs to the 3 Musicbrainz folder.

5. Open Mp3tag, select all the songs and run the action 2. wwwaudio to www (Spotify). This will copy the spotify url of the songs in the WWW tag.

6. In OneTagger run the 3. Musicbrainz profile. (If the downloaded files aren't downloaded using Deemix, run the 3. Musicbrainz - Universal profile instead.)

   Once you're done with scanning, move all songs to the 4 Bandcamp folder.

7. In OneTagger run the 4. Bandcamp profile.

   Once you're done with scanning, move all songs to the 5 Musixmatch folder.

8. In OneTagger run the 5. Musixmatch profile.

   Once you're done with scanning, move the .lrc files (stored in 4 Bandcamp folder) to the 5 Musixmatch folder.

9. Open Mp3tag and tag/rate any songs you want using actions from 3a. to 3e. Each of those actions writes on two different tags, one for windows media player and one for the general rating tag. As you can see the 1/2/3/4/5 star scale corresponts to 1/64/128/192/255 in wmp rating and to 20/40/60/80/100 in rating.

10. In Mp3tag select all the songs and run the 4. Filename format artist - title [year]( -- [YT]) action. This will change the filename of all the songs by using the following template: Artist1; Artist2 - Title [Year] (not the date)

    Each artist is separated by ; and the action adds the -- [YT] suffix only if we have added [YT] as genre in the song, which denotes that we got the song from Youtube.

    The 4b. action is used just in case we don't want to add the [Year] suffix (yet).

11. In Mp3tag select all the songs and run the 5. Add-Fix [Xstar(s)] genre action. This action reads the RATING tag and adds the appropriate star rating in the GENRE tag. i.e. A song with rating 100 gets [5stars] in the genre tag. A song with 20 rating gets [1star].

12. In Mp3tag select all songs and run the 6. Replace hiphoprap and Capitalise Genre action. This fixes the Rap/Hip-Hop genre (some sources use different name for the same genre, so I replace them to be uniform) and capitalises the 1st letter of each word.

13. Now it's time to deal with lyrics. Musixmatch may not find all the lyrics or it may not find synced lyrics (on very rare occassions it may create black .lrc files??). Adding lyrics can be very time consuming. Side note: Mp3tag should change the filename of the .lrc files when you change the filename of the song (.flac, .opus etc.) files.

    a) One way is to install and use lrcget to automatically batch download lyrics and then copy the generated .lrc files to the 5 Musixmatch folder.

    b) Another way is to use the lrclib website which where lrcget fetches the lyrics. You can fine tune the search by yourself. Then you can copy the result to a text file with the same filename of the song you searched and use the .lrc extension. i.e. The Script; will.i.am - Hall of Fame [2012].flac should have a The Script; will.i.am - Hall of Fame [2012].lrc lyrics file.

    c) One last way is to browse Genius website (or any other lyrics website) which has only unsynced lyrics and copy-paste the lyrics to an appropriate .lrc file you will create.

    Once you have all the lyrics files together, you'll have to batch edit them.

    Open all of the files in Notepad++ (just select them all and drag them inside the window). Turn on the document list from notepad to have a better view of the files in a list. Mp3tag and many music players that support lrc files seem to have some issues with extra linebreakes and the way linebreaks are created. On windows \r\n is used for a line break, while linux (and mp3tag/music players seem to prefer) \n. To fix this open the replace dialogue (ctrl+h) on Notepad++. Enable only the Wrap around, Transparency and Extended (search mode) options. In the Find what field we put the text we want to detect and in the Replace with we put the text which we want our detected text to be replace with.

    We will run a series of replacements (follow the order):

    a) Replace ] with ]

    b) Replace ]\n with ]♪\n

    c) Replace \n\r with ♪

    d) Replace \r\n\r\n with \r\n♪\r\n

    e) Replace \n\n with \n♪\n

    f) Replace \r\n with \r\n♪

    This should fix most of the lyrics. Save them all (you can try closing the Notepad++ window and press enter on each confirmation dialogue which will ask to save the file before closing.

    After all these, in Mp3tag run the 7. Synced Lyrics from lrc action. It will copy the contents of the .lrc files in the songs (inside the SYNCEDLYRICS, LYRICS and UNSYNCEDLYRICS tags). The UNSYNCEDLYRICS tag will have the timestamps removed.

    Note: Any songs that don't have an .lrc file will return an error window, just ignore it.

14. In Mp3tag run the 8. Export artist and title for genius and backup year and cover action. This exports a list containing only the artists and the titles of the songs in a .csv file which will later be used by our python script. It also copies the YEAR (date) tag in the DEEZER_YEAR tag. Lastly, it exports the cover images in the Images/Old folder, while adding the _Deezer suffix to each file created.

15. Time to use the script we made: Select a random song, right-click, go to Tools and select the Genius Data Fetcher tool. It will open a cmd window and run the python script. This may take a while. It will start writing the geniusdata.txt inside the Texts folder.

    It may stop at a random point. If this happens, copy the contents of the geniusdata.txt to a separate text file, delete the geniusdata.txt and remove any artists-titles the script managed to scan on genius. You want to retain the order of the songs as they are in the titleartistlist.csv list, so be careful when you merge the data from interrupted uses of the script (create a geniusdata.txt with the same order of songs as they are on titleartistlist.csv).

16. Paste the contents of geniusdata.txt inside LibreOffice Calc (or any kind of Excel program), read them as csv and select Tab as the only delimiter. The script may not have been 100% accurate and it may has mistaken songs for different songs. To fix this, check if the genius artists and title match the last 2 columns which contain the artists and the title we used as input. If there is a mismatch set the date of this song to 0000-00-00. This will prevent from wrong info to appear later in the YEAR tag.

17. In Mp3tag select all the songs and right-click->Convert->Text file-Tag. In the filename field puth the path of the geniusdata.txt. In the format string field put this text: %genius_year% %genius_id% %genius_url% %genius_art_url% %temp%. This reads the values from the text file we created and pastes them in the appropriate tags of our songs.

18. In Mp3tag select all songs and run 9. Merge, trim, and genius Year action. This tidies up the YEAR and GENIUS_YEAR tags (merges any duplicate fields, converts the text None to 00 (redundant) and it adds a leading zero to the month and year fields of the genius year). Then it compares the GENIUS_YEAR and DEEZER_YEAR. If the Genius_year starts with 0 (meaning that the date is 0000-00-00) or the month and the days are zero (year-00-00) and the deezer_year has more info than the year (meaning if it isn't simply 4 digits without month-day) and the absolute difference of the years between deezer and genius years are less than one year, it will keep the old, DEEZER_YEAR in the YEAR field, otherwise the GENIUS_YEAR is written on the YEAR field.

19. In Mp3tag select all songs and run 4. Filename format artist - title [year]( -- [YT]) action. This updates the year in the filename since it probably changed in the step above (19).

20. Use any of the Genre adding [YT], Genre adding [Instrument@l], Genre adding [Gr33k], Genre adding [8b@ll], Genre adding [Nitr0], Genre adding [F@vourites] actions if you deem it necessary. Afterwards run the 6. Replace hiphoprap and Capitalise Genre action just to make sure things are properly capitalised.

    I decided not to use playlists anymore, but instead to add in the GENRE tag, names of playlists or (custom) attributes. This way, if the player supports multiple genres, you ~don't need playlists anymore! You just pick the genre(s) you want. I put my custom Genres in [] to differentiate them from the rest. You can add more if you know how edit my code in the appropriate actions above. The code I've written checks if the Genre I add already exists in the GENRE tag (it reads all the genres in the tag by mentioning that the separator is \\) and if it doesn't, then it adds the new Genre, along with the rest that already existed.

    [YT]: songs that I downloaded from Youtube

    [Instrument@l]: songs that are purely instrumental

    [Gr33k]: songs that are of Greek language (you can do something similar for other languages)

    [8b@ll] and [Nitr0]: names of previous playlists

    [F@vourites]: songs that I would otherwise add (or already have added) in my spotify/etc. favourites category

21. In Mp3tag select all songs that got donwloaded from Deemix (or Deezer) and run the Source to Deezer action. This writes the word Deezer in the SOURCE tag. You can edit this if you want to use it with different sources or simply just ignore this step.

22. To make sure the correct separators are used, use the ; to double inverted slash actions. I have decided to use the double inverted slash \\ as my separator in my .flac files when a tag field has multiple tags (for example the Artist tag in 2Pac; Roniece - Changes [2012].flac will be 2Pac\\Roniece. Mp3tag interpretes \\ as separator for multiple tags and if you check the extended tags of the song, you'll see the Artist tag twice). Many music players seem to get along with that, so I kept it.

23. Time to convert our songs to .opus (we will also keep the .flac files as well).

    (!Attention!) There may be an issue with deleting/editing the .opus files on windows, this can be somewhat fixed by following one of the two soltions provided in the comments here on reddit (web archive link).

    To do this we must open and set up fre:ac:

    Go to Options->General settings setup:

    a) Select Encoders tab:

    -- Select the Opus Audio Encoder tab. Configure the encoder and leave everything default apart from Bitrate and file extension. Set the Bitrate to 128 and the extension to .opus. Click OK and go back.

    b) Select Output files tab:

    -- In the output folder put the path of the 6 Opus folder we created.

    -- In the output filenames enable only the Use <filename> when title info is not available, Append sequential numbers to otherwise identical filenames and Allow Unicode characters. In the Filename pattern field put <filename> (this prevents fre:ac from creating new folder for each song, as the default behaviour would do).

    And we're done! Fre:ac is set up.

    Go to File->Add->Audio file(s) and add all the .flac files (this could also be done differently). Start the encoding process with the "play" button and wait.

24. Now we must put our songs in the correct folders:

    -- Move all the .flac files and the .lrc files in the Flac folder we created inside the Final folder.

    -- Move all the .opus files in the Opus folder we created inside the Final folder.

    -- Copy-paste all the .lrc files in the Opus folder we created inside the Final folder.

25. Now we will transfer any tags to the .opus files that went missing during the conversion.

    -- Open Mp3tag and choose the Flac folder path. Make sure songs are sorted alphabetically (from a to z), select all and then copy (ctrl+c).

    -- In Mp3tag choose the Opus folder path. Make sure songs are sorted alphabetically (from a to z), select all and then paste (ctrl+v).

26. The last necassary (or not so necassary) step! In Mp3tag choose the Opus folder path. Select all songs and run the Merge and split tags action. This changes the separator from \\ to ; . The reason for that is because the music player on my phone doesn't recognize tag fields with multiple tags. Thus, I have to convert the seperator to ; and this way Mp3tag will merge all multiple tags of the same type into a single tag. Then my music player will separate the tags by recognizing the ; separator.

WE DID IT! Our songs are properly organized and tagged!

As you may have noticed, we didn't use one action. I'll explain what it does:

Remove favourite genre: Removes the [F@vourites] genre. It searches if this genre exist and if yes it removes it. The only limitation I managed to find in my code is that if you somehow only have the [F@vourites] genre multiple times (>1 time) and you have no other genre in the tag field, it won't remove anything. It seems like a very rare case, but this is a bug.

Happy tagging!

Extras:

Music players:

1. For my Windows PC I use Quodlibet. It reads multiple tags very well and scans my .flac collection rather fast.

   How to set it up:

   -- I have enabled the following plug-ins: Advanced Prefernces, Application Information, Change Language, ListenBrainz Submission, Rescan Songs, Synchronized Lyrics, Unique Query, View Lyrics and Waveform Seek Bar.

   -- In layout prefernces I'm using the Small Column layout and in the column content I use a custom set up with 3 genre columns. I'm using the Panned browser.

   -- In preferences:

   a) Song list tab:

   • I've enabled Jump to playing song automatically, Always allow sorting, Sort songs when tags are modified and Title includes version. I've selected the Artist, Title, Year, Genre and Length to be visible.

   b) Browsers:

   • I have disabled Enable one-click ratings

   c) Library:

   • In the scan directories I have put the path of the Flac directory and have enabled Scan library on start.

   d) Tags:

   • I have everything disabled: I have disabled Auto-save tag changes and Save ratings and play counts in tags.

   Generally, I don't want Quodlibet to alter my tags.

2. For my Android (13) device I'm using Symphony.

   It has support for custom tag separators, but it doesn't read multiple tags. That's the reason why I'm separting tags with multiple items using ; .

   It takes a long while to initially load the files when you first add the folder, but once it does it is very fast. It has many features, probably the most you can find on an open source android local music player. Plus, it's beauuuutiful.

Music scrobblers/listen history recorders:

I use ListenBrainz on my devices to record my listen history. I have integated my Spotify account too (I just have to find a way to import my whole Spotify listening history with the proper tools). I have installed it on my android device and I added my music players to the list of apps to watch and record. On pc I have the built-in listenbrainz plugin enabled in Quodlibet. One issue or feature (depending on how you see it) with this platform is that it makes publicly available your listening history with detailed timestamps (date and time with minute resolution). That's why I am using a kinda random nickname. This helps you find people with similar tastes.

This is the end of the guide! I hope it helped you somehow or gave you any ideas for your workflow!

I just checked the github page of lsposed and saw that it is now archived :/

I found a short thread on xda mentioning it as well.

The official announcement is on telegram.

This is sad...

Due to the nature of fediverse, you can't just do a "site:lemmy" search as you'd do with reddit (site:reddit.com). I was searching for ways to do it on my firefox browsers and I came to a solution that searches 21 different instances simultaneously, which I consider to be a big part of lemmy (I also include kbin instances). I am using firefox with DDGO (which has a 500-character limit per search query).

There's gonna be a text you will have to copy, I'll just write it once here hidden inside the spoiler:

Replace it when I ask you to write the "URL string".

There are different processes, depending on the type of device/OS (computer, mobile/android etc.). I will list some of them and you can pick the one you want:

• Firefox Android: Go to search settings->manage alternative search engines->add search engine. Pick a name you want (eg. Lemmy) and on the search string URL paste the "URL string" I've written above. Now next time you want to search Lemmy, just select "Lemmy" as your search engine.

• Firefox Computer V1: Create a bookmark with a name you want (eg. Lemmy search). In the URL field paste the "URL string" I've written above. In the keyword field add a keyword to use as a prefix to your searches (eg. @l). Now to search Lemmy, you can type @l "random search" in the address bar.

• Firefox Computer V2: Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh Click on the little + symbol on the right. Go to firefox Settings->Search or enter this in the address bar: about:preferences#search In the "Search Shortcuts" section you should notice a new "Add" button. Just like on android, press "Add", insert a name (eg. Lemmy), add the "URL string" from above and once you're done you can add a keyword (eg. @lemmy). If you want, you can now go back and disable browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh (press the trash can icon) (I don't know if this will crash anything).

I really wanted to search lemmy, but not being able to do a simple site:lemmy detered me from doing so.

So there you have it! The added text is 412 characters which leaves 88 characters for your searches. You can change the url to add/remove instances you want. If anyone can improve it please (like shrinking the url or if you manage to search all instances) it will be appreciated.

Credits:

• The idea came from this site (which I found on lemmy): https://fedi-search.com/ I asked it to search lemmy on ddgo and gave me a similar string to the one I have above, only limited to fewer instances.

• I found the biggest instances I wanted to include in the search using the csv from this github page: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/blob/main/awesome-lemmy-instances.csv

• Lastly, I found the computer process from 2 answers on this stackoverflow question: https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-search-engine-to-firefox

I've been casually browsing lemmy for about 5 months and so far I've gathered 1251 memes (or pics generally) on my phone which I almost never bother to share with anyone (I also don't think they are funny enough to share them with my people) and I barely ever see my collection.

I just keep saving images of mainly weird humor (like from this community).🤷

Sending a random image for anyone else who's on the hunt for random images as well as me.