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Ok, I did some tests:
For some reason, many mobile apps (like Gramophone, or Symphony which I use) cant read the tags properly.
a) Both apps cant separate tags that use
\\
as separator for some reason. Gramophone doesnt have an option to choose a tag separator. Symphony has an option, but doesnt work with\\
. (To fix this you have some options; What I do is have a separate cloned compressed .opus music collection that uses;
as separator and to do this I use mp3tag and fre:ac. You can do this in the future.)b) Both apps in the
Year
tag expect to only see 4 digits (of the year). We have set deemix to store the whole date in that tag, so they fail to read it. You can either go in deemix to settings, under date format for flac files and chooseYYYY
(which loses accuracy) or use mp3tag and manipulate the tags so that you have both the year and the date in separate fields. Another option is to use Phonograph plus which can read properly the whole date.c) Apparently, no (open source) mobile app can read tags separated by
\\
properly and as a result, they either combine all the tags into one (they might read the genre tagsGlam Rock
andPunk Rock
as a single genreGlam Rock\\Punk Rock
) or they read only the first of the tag (on our previous example they would read only one genreGlam Rock
). I think Vlc does the latter. It's frustrating, I know...As long as the .lrc file has the same name as the .flac file and they are in the same folder, the app should be able to read the lrc file as the lyrics of the flac file. (Though if there's anything wrong in the way the contents of the .lrc file are structured, it might have a hard time reading it.)
Well, at least now I know the issue isn't on my end, so that's a relief. I'm fine with how things are right now, it's all very scattered but I can create a playlist of my favourites to make it easier. Besides, once I get to the tagging part of your guide I imagine things will get much more accurate. I've downloaded all of my 1000 songs now so I think I'll delete my Spotify account and leave the world of streaming (music) behind. (:
Oh youre gonna do the big jump, good luck with that😄
PS. If you care about your spotify listening history there is a way to get your listening records in your email (takes about a month tho). And about music discovery there's Innertune (the forked version is better) which uses yt music without an account or Listenbrainz which can help you find songs and artists/bands.
You persisted despite the struggles and you made it, well done!