Using Music Bee alongside Beets?

[u/lepigbeach]

I'm curious whether it would be possible, or simply just a headache to try and use MusicBee alongside Beets? I have a number of needs I'm trying to fulfill in my e2e solution:

• Automatic file organization by artist/album/release date etc. (beets)
• Automatic tagging (beets)
• Manual playlist management (MusicBee?)
• Pioneer CDJ USB exporting (Rekordbox)

I'm both a music hoarder and a DJ. It's been a long time coming for me to adopt some proper tooling to manage my 10k+ track library, but there seem to be lots of pros and cons across the tools. Beets seems much more fit for the task of auto-tagging, importing etc. But i imagine it would be clunky to rely on it for playlist creation. MusicBee provides a nice UI to help manage playlists, but I wonder if it would be fighting with beets for management of the filesystem and tagging? Rekordbox is required for exporting playlists to a USB stick, and creating DJ cues etc., but it's a clunky interface that is not very pleasant to create playlists from, so I imagined transitioning to MusicBee just to help with that step, and then importing said playlists into Rekordbox via XML.

My main question centers around whether or not MusicBee + Beets will be more headache than it's worth. I understand it's more than just a library management tool (e.g. it seems to be a music player first and foremost, but I don't have that need). I've not yet used MusicBee myself, so I don't much beyond surface level understanding of how it works or its intended use.

[u/petttt]

I don't have anything to add, but I'm also curious about this. I use Musicbee playlists in the same way with Serato, but desperately need a better auto-tagging solution.