Moving on from beets

We live in an era where streaming music is the default, and although i tend towards the Very Fundamentally Opposed end of the thoughts on streaming music, i can understand that most people just don't care that much. For most people, music is usually pleasant background sound. A lot of people don't listen to albums. In the same way that a lot of people don't create a database of all the books that they own, most people don't want to spend time managing what is essentially an ad-hoc database of all the music that they own. And that's very understandable. Digital music tooling generally falls somewhere between not bad to very bad, and if listening to music is not an active hobby, spending time with janky tools just to make it so that your albums appear as a single album is not really a fun or interesting pursuit. Growing up, i watched my father build a digital music library in itunes. When i first received a phone of my own, i put some of those songs on it. Over time, i built my own…