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-o-> **2021 Note: I'm finally moving to [[Quod Libet]]. Got sick of relying on [[Wine]], sick of bad support for not-Latin alphabets, sick of it being not open-source, sick of some not-standard ways it handles metadata ... I'm sure I'll miss some features though**+o-> **2021 Note: I'm finally moving to [[Quod Libet]]. Got sick of relying on [[Wine]], sick of bad support for not-Latin alphabets, sick of it being not open-source, sick of some not-standard ways it handles [[metadata|metadata]] ... I'm sure I'll miss some features though**
  
 **I've written a little bit about the process of transitioning to different software below: -s-[[#Switching Away From Foobar]]** **I've written a little bit about the process of transitioning to different software below: -s-[[#Switching Away From Foobar]]**
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   - The first step was identifying what I wanted out of the software, test as many programs as I could, and work out what formats and stuff I needed. I've been transferring my notes over to: [[music_player#notes|music_player§notes]]. Ended up deciding on [[Quod Libet]] as the main software I want to use for organising and playing music on my computer, and running an [[MPD]] server to make it easy to play music elsewhere in the house (though mostly I just play records tbh).   - The first step was identifying what I wanted out of the software, test as many programs as I could, and work out what formats and stuff I needed. I've been transferring my notes over to: [[music_player#notes|music_player§notes]]. Ended up deciding on [[Quod Libet]] as the main software I want to use for organising and playing music on my computer, and running an [[MPD]] server to make it easy to play music elsewhere in the house (though mostly I just play records tbh).
-  - Next I went and tidied up my library, using Foobar's built-in in file management tools to move and rename all my music. I wanted to do this in FB so that links in playlists would be in tact. Took advantage of [[Picard]] a few times to get tags on some stuff with shitty metadata.+  - Next I went and tidied up my library, using Foobar's built-in in file management tools to move and rename all my music. I wanted to do this in FB so that links in playlists would be in tact. Took advantage of [[Picard]] a few times to get tags on some stuff with shitty [[metadata|metadata]].
     - After exporting playlists as ''.m3u8'' files (that I then renamed ''.m3u'' for [[mpd]]'s sake) I found out that the links //weren't// in tact, but I'll fix that later.     - After exporting playlists as ''.m3u8'' files (that I then renamed ''.m3u'' for [[mpd]]'s sake) I found out that the links //weren't// in tact, but I'll fix that later.
   - Use [[Ex Falso]] (it comes with of Quod Libet) to fix some tags. FB will combine multiple tag entries into one instance of the tag instead of the more standard way of using separate instances of the tag. So FB does ''<genre>Pop;Live;Australian</genre>'', whereas ''<genre>Pop</genre> <genre>Live</genre> <genre>Australian</genre>'' is the standard way. With Ex Falso you can easily split a tag.   - Use [[Ex Falso]] (it comes with of Quod Libet) to fix some tags. FB will combine multiple tag entries into one instance of the tag instead of the more standard way of using separate instances of the tag. So FB does ''<genre>Pop;Live;Australian</genre>'', whereas ''<genre>Pop</genre> <genre>Live</genre> <genre>Australian</genre>'' is the standard way. With Ex Falso you can easily split a tag.
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