Musicbrainz for the basic stuff then quodlibet music player for the ratings and custom tags. If it’s important, no idea if it has a windows or mac version, we only use linux.

My wife does the tagging so I don’t know the details. But it’s ID3 tags and she sets a custom “mood” tag. So it might look something like this “genre: classical, instrumental” but another tag “mood: chill; quiet”. Many players don’t recognize this but it originally came from her using musicbee on windows. We do set multiple values in genre but she likes having the separate mood one as well. And we use rating which is another some player ignore. All of these she uses to build smart playlists.

Not exactly referring to that but kinda. We like to add custom tags that we decide for each track and then build playlists from those tags. So a playlist might have a genre tag but also, for example, the tag “relaxing” so a playlist is made up of all songs with those tags (playlist of all songs tagged both with “classical” and “relaxing”).

Does this support custom tags and smart playlists built from the tags? I’ve been looking for a self hosted service that does that for so long.

Thanks for this! In going to set this up for myself.

I’m actually using this one which seems to be more actively maintained than the one you linked.

Working on automating tasks so I don’t have to block out hours of time a week managing everything. Just got watchtower running and going to see how it does before trying out some other automations.

The scanner also supports sending to email. I will try that before setting up a windows VM. I was just tubing i would use USB for the initial import of my file cabinet.

That’s a good idea. I didn’t even think to do that. Thanks!

Set up paperless-ngx and cannot get my scanner to send a scan to a FTP server. It supposedly supports sending to FTP but doesn’t have much documentation for it. I’ve tried FTPS, SFTP, and unsecured FTP. Both secure types just cause it to error out. But with unsecured the scanner just freezes then reboots. Really annoying me. I’m about to give up and just scan to s USB thumb drive then copy the scans to the server.

I came here to basically say this. It’s especially bad when you aren’t even sure if you want to keep the service and are just testing it out. If I already have to go through a huge setup/troubleshooting process just to test the app, then I’m not feeling very good about it.