Tunedly.com Recs: It's a decent system. It takes a list of bands that sound similar to what you requested and ranks them by popularity. The fatal flaw in this system is that an artist's association with certain bands or genres will really fuck up the system. For example, Muzzy remixed a song by Kings of the City who are a rock/rap group. Now if you look at KOTC's last.fm rec box its flooded with artists who are... Source: about 2 years ago

For me it would probably have to be the band Zero Down with their (one and only) release With a Lifetime to Pay. One day I was browsing tunedly.com and I clicked on the cancelled Dreamcast game "Propeller Arena" and the track "Empty Promised Land" from the album was in the game albeit unused (and in very low-quality mono). I ended up listening to the album and fell in love with it. Source: about 2 years ago

Also check out tunedly.com for recommendations redditors. Source: about 2 years ago

I read people complaining about the discovery of music, I was with Spotify for more than 4 years and I can say that I always listen to the same music and the same playlists. Since I switched to Tunedly.com and Apple Music over a year ago, I have discovered many new and good artists and songs that I did not know, radio shows and artist-hosted shows show too much music and I feel like it is something that a lot of... Source: about 2 years ago

Discover weekly, check out others playlists posted here, search for music genres you like and look at the playlists that come up, radio from a liked song, also go to tunedly.com and see their recommendations. I’ve found success with all those. Source: about 2 years ago

This should help substantially: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

No need to use the server, Navidrome allows any client to connect remotely (WAN included) and play music that is hosted on the server. It also can be set up to transcode on the fly uncompressed music when it is accessed from a metered connection to minimize bandwidth usage. I barely scratched its surface, but it looks promising. The only requirement is that it needs the correct metadata to identify songs and... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

I highly recommend Musicbrainz Picard: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ It will match against the Musicbrainz database and will acoustically ID your files, so the tags can be completely wrong. Just dump folders of albums into the client, it will group and sort things and ID them. It works great. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

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... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

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. Source: 7 months ago