# Large Music Advise **URL:** \ **Category:** Tips and Tricks\ **Created:** [November 7, 2025, 4:24am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/large-music-advise/11199 "2025-11-07T04:24:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JamesJ](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@JamesJ](http://support.symfonium.app/u/JamesJ)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:24am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/large-music-advise/11199/1 "2025-11-07T04:24:42Z")
I have 5 million songs I’m not to sure what’s the best way to organize and to manage all my music I wanted to make it the best way to make it like a real streaming service ---
**Author:** ![TheKingPin](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/thekingpin/32/11022_2.png) [@TheKingPin](http://support.symfonium.app/u/TheKingPin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 9:13am UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/large-music-advise/11199/2 "2025-11-10T09:13:11Z")
I dont have near that amount of songs (approx 30K), but, I am happy to share with you my approach, because, we are trying to achieve the same goal; > [@JamesJ](#): > > make it like a real streaming service Here is what has worked for me so far in order of priority: **ORGANIZATION / MANAGEMENT** 1. Metadata metadata metadata - Make sure your albums, tracks, artists have correct metadata. There are few tools to achieve this. Personally I use [beets](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html), due to the configuration ability to make it do exactly what I need and require. You will need to be comfortable with a command line though. Otherwise Musicbrainz is also a good alternative and has a GUI. - Metadata using a percentage match, most of the time its from musicbrainz, but can also fetch from discogs, beatport or deezer as fallback. _**Due to the Spotify API restrictions I no longer use this method (2026)**_ I fetch the artist image using\* [spotipy · PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/spotipy/) \*, I made a script that fetches artist image from spotify and can also manually fetch album artwork if beets fails to find. The artist image is stored in /albums/artist\_name - Apply album level replaygain. - use ; as delimiter - Clean up unwanted tags - Apply genre tags from lastfm - Few other personalized things - Run Audiomuse Analysis on newly added music My music is organized /albums/artist\_name/album\_name/track Some providers do not care about folder structure, others do. I like a clean structure to have a clean overview for myself at least, so I can manage the library rather easily and remove or edit things with ease. **SMART FEATURES** Next I wanted to incorporate some features from streaming services, like tailored playlists or on the go queues using sonic analysis. Options here are limited either - Plex - [Audiomuse AI](https://github.com/NeptuneHub/AudioMuse-AI) Plex Sonic Analysis is paid, and, I have no experience with it. Audiomuse is free and integrates into many music servers. Sonic Analysis smart queues is currently only supported through jellyfin and the plugin. – Navidrome v62.0+ and Symfonium v15.0+ now also fully supports the OpenSubsonic API extension that make smart queues possible ([adding similarTracks and findPath new api for AudioMuse-AI sonic simiarity by NeptuneHub · Pull Request #219 · opensubsonic/open-subsonic-api · GitHub](https://github.com/opensubsonic/open-subsonic-api/pull/219)) , I have reverted back to my favourite server Navidrome after this release. In Symfonium, I have created smart playlists to replicate some of the streaming services “daily / weekly“ and other user tailored playlists on home page, for example: - “Discover” picks tracks that havent been play for x amount of time and are not favorite. - “Album Roulette” will randomly pick an album every time the page refreshes. - “Recent Mix“ a random selection of tracks which have recently been added to the provider. I then create a unique picture for each playlist to make it look nice, this website here is perfect I found: [Playlist Cover Maker\