After several false starts I’ve finally come up with a way that I find the easiest to maintain a music library - and thought I’d share.
My setup is a remote server I only access through VNC, and my everyday desktop. I listen to music on my Android phone using Plexamp.
Server side:
I have the OneDrive client installed, and a “Music” folder on there which is the only folder set to show, and set to be local at all times (which means OneDrive will automatically download anything in that folder)
The Plex Music library is set to look at the Music folder within my OneDrive location, and always uses local metadata
Desktop:
I rip my old CD’s with dbpoweramp ripper, and then double check the metadata with mp3tag. I always remove the “disc X” from the album title to all the tracks end up in the same folder, but correctly tagged “disc X/Y”
Golden rule is to make sure the Album Artist tag is set to “Various Artists” if it is a compilation as dbpoweramp tends not to do that.
Once ripped and checked, I copy the folder to my OneDrive folder, which uploads it - and subseqently it downloads to the server and is added to the Plex library.
This may sound like a faff, but it’s way better than having a tatty library with tunes scattered all over the place
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