I’m using MusicBrainz Picard. However there are some tricks to spare you some nerves:

• you can set weights to release types in the settings. Singles and compilations should have a lesser weight than albums.
• Don’t add too much music at once. Or you’ll get crazy selecting the correct releases. I usually go with one artist a time. Especially for older artists I just add one album a time. You can enable the file Browser in the view settings, than you can just drop them in one after the other.
• in the right pane you can just drag and drop whole releases to merge them together.
• Also noticable is the rename feature in the settings. It’s just awesome!

I have some Hone Assistant automations, that creates some todos in Habitica for me. These todos are ai generated, so they sound like quests in a rpg 😎 this really motivates me. Also it’s funny

Another hint: Even if Lutris claims to be for games, there are often install scripts for windows applications too. So it may be worth to try to run your apps with Lutris. It should be in the mint packages (try sudo apt install lutris). Then you can add your software in Lutris with the upper left “+” button. Just use the search in the dialog box. I managed to run FL Studio like this, exactly as performant as on windows. Good luck and welcome to the linux family!

It’s a jungle out there 🎶

That’s a cool approach! Reminds me of the old Napster 🤓

Awesome! I just learned something today. Thanks for pointing it out so detailed!

yt-dlp can handle YouTube Music Links. Just tell it with -x --audio-format mp3, that you don’t want the Video, but an mp3 (opus can’t be tagged). I use it to obtail whole artists, then I tag them with MusicBrainz Picard. I’m sure there is a way to automate this. yt-dlp has also a Python library. However I haven’t used it for now.