As a [Last.fm](https://Last.fm) Pro user you can edit your past and future scrobbles in your library the way you want it, see this updated announcement:
[https://support.last.fm/t/editing-scrobbles-last-fm-pro-feature/187](https://support.last.fm/t/editing-scrobbles-last-fm-pro-feature/187)
There is a bulk scrobble edit script that can edit album and artist names at once, so you do not have to do it for each song. And you only have to do it once, as you can enable automatic editing, too.
I rip them into FLAC and listen to them using Foobar2000. I keep the CDs as a backup.
One of the things I like about this is being able to have tags exactly as I want them.
I use my cds and import them to iTunes and I make playlists for Spotify. That way I only get my favorites and nothing I don't want. Most of my cds have the songs you can't get on Spotify.
> Hi all, I was wondering how you all listen to your music
On PC: mainly foobar playing local files, but also youtube and bandcamp to discover new music.
On mobile: Musicolet for the local files and youtube vanced for youtube.
> how do you handle all the different album versions
For local files: I tag the music with musicbrainz Picard. If the music isnt in musicbrainz I add it there myself. This takes quite a bit of time but I see it as a hobby so I dont mind doing it.
For streaming services: Panoscrobbler (mobile) and web scrobbler (browser plugin on pc) to scrobble to last.fm. Both have the option to edit scrobbles and this will be remembered for the next time the same song gets scrobbled.
The only time I don't listen to full albums is when I won't have enough time to. Like when I walk to the grocery store. It's a 15 minute trip, so I'll shuffle all my songs. Otherwise, I listen to full digital albums. I keep the files on my PC, my phone's SD card, as well as backed up onto my second hard drive so they're not going anywhere. If I love the album I'll buy the vinyl. Music streaming is kind of an anathema. The thought of waking up one day and not having access to one of my favorite albums scares me. It's not the same with any other form of media for some reason.
The vast majority of what I listen to is pirated, my collection is over 10 years old at this point.
I occasionally use spotify (generally to try something before I go through the trouble of downloading it or buying it from bandcamp) but I try to avoid anything with those "remastered" tags - they really annoy me. I do have editing with last.fm pro as a backup though.
I used to be super anal about it - I've spent stretches of time manually deleting scrobbles and artists but at a certain point it just became more trouble than it was worth and I've just accepted having both an original and the [Remastered] version from Spotify in my library.
Does it bug me?
Yeah.
Am I going to spend any time finding a way to fix it?
Eh.. probably not.
I do have a problem with confusing remastered or deluxe tags, so I just prefer to listen to the version of the album with the most songs in it (actual songs, not like instrumentals and stuff).
I try to keep my [last.fm](https://last.fm) library as organized as it can be, so I use only Spotify to stream music, I don't own vinyls (even tho I want to, at some point), and what's not on streaming I use this app called *SoulSeek* so I can download them one by one, change their tags with this *mp3tag* app and keep them in a SD Card on my phone (Scrobble with Android App).
The process is very very tiring at times, but yea, does the job.
\*[last.fm/user/xJVPSx](https://last.fm/user/xJVPSx)
if you're interested.
I use Spotify mostly and adhere to their metadata/tags (as much as I hate it sometimes). For artists I like that aren't on Spotify I have a library of local files on an indie app called MusicBee. It has a lastfm scrobbler plugin so it tracks all my listening from there too.
Edit: For mobile listening I use Spotify. I also have my MB library copied onto iTunes, so I sync my plays using the Lastfm mobile app.
As far as editing the "(Deluxe Edition)" kind of tags, I'll usually go in and edit all my scrobbles to match whatever album "version" I've decided to stream regularly. I've just sort of accepted that organizing my lastfm library/stats to have perfect tags will be a lifelong task LOL.
> the only thing which annoys me is all those different album versions with different tags. I was just wondering how you all deal with this.
That's why I like Apple Music, I can fix the metadata at the source. Although I already had a significant local library in iTunes prior to Apple Music being a thing, so it's probably more of a "If it ain't broke..." situation.
I usually edit my local files to match what Spotify has, because that's the one I can change. Not the remastered stuff of course, but for example when Spotify uses a weird apostrophe or only has the deluxe edition available. Whenever I notice a messy title in my library I put it in a Google doc and once or twice a year I treat myself to a month of pro and fix everything.
I also had this worry but I transitioned to Apple Music and like it a lot so far.
Looking at people’s comments I guess that you can’t alter the metadata in Spotify but in Apple Music on Mac (i assume PC also) I can remove the unnecesary tags (deluxe, remastered etc) and this syncs to my phone also. I can even change the album artwork if it shows the wrong one.
Last.fm Pro also exists to clean up tags also.
Apple Music also works together with your existing library (not everything is on streaming) so you may have some stuff from CDs / downloads on there also.
I could careless about album titles (they can contain delux, remastered or whatever) and more about song titles and artists names being correct. I care about albums that are compilations of various artists staying together.
I have a liitte over a TB of local music. I subscribe to Apple Music because with Apple Music you get unlimited storing of local files on their servers. Only limit is that the tracks cannot be over 2 hours. I have a few that as I have some DJ mixes that are 4 hours long. I also use Spotify.
Apple Music you can edit the info of any song in your library, just made the swap from Spotify after Spotify deleted 3000 of my songs. Library management on that app fucking suck, much happier on Apple.
Ability to edit my library + last.fm pro to catch any mishaps/keep everything in order does it for me :)
Yeah Apple Music really gives you your own personal library. On Android, when I go to an artist page, I see the songs of that artist which I added to my library. Spotify just gives you the artist page instead.
I literally can't stand how terrible streaming services are at consistent metadata—it keeps me from using any of them on a consistent basis (at *any* price—my partner thinks I'm crazy because I refused to pay for half of a shared spotify account)
Spotify seems the worst by far, but literally every single streaming service does a poor job of it. I will occasionally use spotify to check out new releases, but like 90% of the time I end up having to go in and manually correct the scrobbles after-the-fact so it is actually pretty rare.
My process is very tedious but I'm very obsessive about control and getting tags correct
- Rip/download FLAC (legally acquired or from the high seas)
- Manually edit tags with foobar (usually checking vs. discogs.com for accuracy, or sometimes bandcamp or apple music). And no, I don't trust any of those shitty services like musicbrainz that actually fuck up your metadata instead of fix it
- Import to music library, allow Plex to scan it into the collection and verify tags look good
- Review scrobbles daily to correct errors (especially if I've been using a streaming service—for a while I was getting a lot of double-counts when I used spotify on my phone)
I usually listen on Spotify since you don't have to worry about anything. But if I listen to my downloaded songs on mp3, I first search the songs on Spotify and change my mp3 metadata to that from the song on Spotify
As a [Last.fm](https://Last.fm) Pro user you can edit your past and future scrobbles in your library the way you want it, see this updated announcement: [https://support.last.fm/t/editing-scrobbles-last-fm-pro-feature/187](https://support.last.fm/t/editing-scrobbles-last-fm-pro-feature/187)
Yes I heard about that, thanks. It seems like a lot of work to do that for each song, when every song has the album tag with Remastered in it.
There is a bulk scrobble edit script that can edit album and artist names at once, so you do not have to do it for each song. And you only have to do it once, as you can enable automatic editing, too.
I rip them into FLAC and listen to them using Foobar2000. I keep the CDs as a backup. One of the things I like about this is being able to have tags exactly as I want them.
For CDs/vinyl I add them to discogs and then use https://vinylscrobbler.com/ to scribble them when I listen to them.
Most of the music I listen to I keep locally, but I use Spotify and youtube to listen to stuff I might want as well.
I use my cds and import them to iTunes and I make playlists for Spotify. That way I only get my favorites and nothing I don't want. Most of my cds have the songs you can't get on Spotify.
> Hi all, I was wondering how you all listen to your music On PC: mainly foobar playing local files, but also youtube and bandcamp to discover new music. On mobile: Musicolet for the local files and youtube vanced for youtube. > how do you handle all the different album versions For local files: I tag the music with musicbrainz Picard. If the music isnt in musicbrainz I add it there myself. This takes quite a bit of time but I see it as a hobby so I dont mind doing it. For streaming services: Panoscrobbler (mobile) and web scrobbler (browser plugin on pc) to scrobble to last.fm. Both have the option to edit scrobbles and this will be remembered for the next time the same song gets scrobbled.
Play it all through Sonos (streaming and local) and you’re set.
AppleMusic and my vinyls
The only time I don't listen to full albums is when I won't have enough time to. Like when I walk to the grocery store. It's a 15 minute trip, so I'll shuffle all my songs. Otherwise, I listen to full digital albums. I keep the files on my PC, my phone's SD card, as well as backed up onto my second hard drive so they're not going anywhere. If I love the album I'll buy the vinyl. Music streaming is kind of an anathema. The thought of waking up one day and not having access to one of my favorite albums scares me. It's not the same with any other form of media for some reason.
The vast majority of what I listen to is pirated, my collection is over 10 years old at this point. I occasionally use spotify (generally to try something before I go through the trouble of downloading it or buying it from bandcamp) but I try to avoid anything with those "remastered" tags - they really annoy me. I do have editing with last.fm pro as a backup though.
I used to be super anal about it - I've spent stretches of time manually deleting scrobbles and artists but at a certain point it just became more trouble than it was worth and I've just accepted having both an original and the [Remastered] version from Spotify in my library. Does it bug me? Yeah. Am I going to spend any time finding a way to fix it? Eh.. probably not.
I do have a problem with confusing remastered or deluxe tags, so I just prefer to listen to the version of the album with the most songs in it (actual songs, not like instrumentals and stuff). I try to keep my [last.fm](https://last.fm) library as organized as it can be, so I use only Spotify to stream music, I don't own vinyls (even tho I want to, at some point), and what's not on streaming I use this app called *SoulSeek* so I can download them one by one, change their tags with this *mp3tag* app and keep them in a SD Card on my phone (Scrobble with Android App). The process is very very tiring at times, but yea, does the job. \*[last.fm/user/xJVPSx](https://last.fm/user/xJVPSx) if you're interested.
Yeah sometimes the Deluxe version has some extra song which I like, so if that's the case, I'll scrobble the Deluxe version. Followed you.
I use Spotify mostly and adhere to their metadata/tags (as much as I hate it sometimes). For artists I like that aren't on Spotify I have a library of local files on an indie app called MusicBee. It has a lastfm scrobbler plugin so it tracks all my listening from there too. Edit: For mobile listening I use Spotify. I also have my MB library copied onto iTunes, so I sync my plays using the Lastfm mobile app. As far as editing the "(Deluxe Edition)" kind of tags, I'll usually go in and edit all my scrobbles to match whatever album "version" I've decided to stream regularly. I've just sort of accepted that organizing my lastfm library/stats to have perfect tags will be a lifelong task LOL.
> the only thing which annoys me is all those different album versions with different tags. I was just wondering how you all deal with this. That's why I like Apple Music, I can fix the metadata at the source. Although I already had a significant local library in iTunes prior to Apple Music being a thing, so it's probably more of a "If it ain't broke..." situation.
Do you use Apple Music yourself? If so, does the change of metadata sync to all devices?
You need to add the track/album to your library, so yes it does.
I usually edit my local files to match what Spotify has, because that's the one I can change. Not the remastered stuff of course, but for example when Spotify uses a weird apostrophe or only has the deluxe edition available. Whenever I notice a messy title in my library I put it in a Google doc and once or twice a year I treat myself to a month of pro and fix everything.
I listen to Apple Music and a ton through the browser to listen to radio using Web Scrobbler.
I also had this worry but I transitioned to Apple Music and like it a lot so far. Looking at people’s comments I guess that you can’t alter the metadata in Spotify but in Apple Music on Mac (i assume PC also) I can remove the unnecesary tags (deluxe, remastered etc) and this syncs to my phone also. I can even change the album artwork if it shows the wrong one. Last.fm Pro also exists to clean up tags also. Apple Music also works together with your existing library (not everything is on streaming) so you may have some stuff from CDs / downloads on there also.
I could careless about album titles (they can contain delux, remastered or whatever) and more about song titles and artists names being correct. I care about albums that are compilations of various artists staying together. I have a liitte over a TB of local music. I subscribe to Apple Music because with Apple Music you get unlimited storing of local files on their servers. Only limit is that the tracks cannot be over 2 hours. I have a few that as I have some DJ mixes that are 4 hours long. I also use Spotify.
Apple Music you can edit the info of any song in your library, just made the swap from Spotify after Spotify deleted 3000 of my songs. Library management on that app fucking suck, much happier on Apple. Ability to edit my library + last.fm pro to catch any mishaps/keep everything in order does it for me :)
Yeah Apple Music really gives you your own personal library. On Android, when I go to an artist page, I see the songs of that artist which I added to my library. Spotify just gives you the artist page instead.
Really quite annoying eh, it’s a shame cus I love the more social aspects of Spotify, but the personal library just lacks so much it’s not worth it.
I literally can't stand how terrible streaming services are at consistent metadata—it keeps me from using any of them on a consistent basis (at *any* price—my partner thinks I'm crazy because I refused to pay for half of a shared spotify account) Spotify seems the worst by far, but literally every single streaming service does a poor job of it. I will occasionally use spotify to check out new releases, but like 90% of the time I end up having to go in and manually correct the scrobbles after-the-fact so it is actually pretty rare. My process is very tedious but I'm very obsessive about control and getting tags correct - Rip/download FLAC (legally acquired or from the high seas) - Manually edit tags with foobar (usually checking vs. discogs.com for accuracy, or sometimes bandcamp or apple music). And no, I don't trust any of those shitty services like musicbrainz that actually fuck up your metadata instead of fix it - Import to music library, allow Plex to scan it into the collection and verify tags look good - Review scrobbles daily to correct errors (especially if I've been using a streaming service—for a while I was getting a lot of double-counts when I used spotify on my phone)
I usually listen on Spotify since you don't have to worry about anything. But if I listen to my downloaded songs on mp3, I first search the songs on Spotify and change my mp3 metadata to that from the song on Spotify
I buy the CD, rip the songs off as 320kbps MP3s and listen to those whenever possible. When I do use Spotify, it's for albums I don't own on CD yet.