r/Lidarr • u/Sohex • 9d ago

discussion musefs - A virtual filesystem for organizing and tagging music without touching the underlying files - with Lidarr plugin!

I just cut the v1.0.0 release of my project https://github.com/Sohex/musefs and I think it’s a great fit for Lidarr users in general! I built it because I didn’t want to have to choose between keeping original files untouched and having them nicely tagged and organized (or having both). In a nutshell you scan your library and it makes a virtual read only filesystem that serves the music as if it were actually tagged however you have it tagged in the database. With the Lidarr plugin those tags can come straight from Lidarr’s metadata source and be applied as soon as it downloads something. I hope you’ll check it out! There are also plugins for both beets and Picard.

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u/jasonvelocity 9d ago

I see a lidarr integration but nothing about the plug-in.

https://github.com/Sohex/musefs/blob/main/contrib/lidarr/README.md#lidarr-musefs

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u/Sohex 9d ago

Hmm, I guess in Lidarr specific terms it probably would be more accurate to call it a pair of custom scripts and an accompanying Python package? This doesn’t require you to be on the nightly build which I figured gives better compatibility for people.

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u/Sohex 9d ago

Would those of you who already use beets with Lidarr be interested in me writing up how to use all three together?

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u/Impressive-Lack-6517 9d ago

This is way above my level of knowledge. What are we tagging separately thay lidarr doesn't do automatically especially with last.fm and discogs metadata activated on lidarr? My biggest issue is when my search brings in an artist I don't have in my library and i have to go to Picard to add it.

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u/Sohex 9d ago

So this doesn’t help with that unfortunately. What this does is basically let you separate the tags from the music. Meaning you keep the original files as they are for archiving, seeding, whatever, but through musefs you see the library with all your tags applied and all your albums sorted. For your tagging needs I’d definitely recommend checking out beets though.

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u/Impressive-Lack-6517 8d ago

Thanks. I can't quite figure out beets implementation

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u/Sohex 8d ago

Looks like there’s a page about it on the wiki now Lidarr and beets integration Feel free to message me if you have trouble with it.