I wanted to love beets as I prefer the CLI, but it just seemed very finicky for me.

1. Tagging doesn't work if you don't import every song in an album at once (see https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/1j0wnbz/need_... and dev comments on https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/5014)

2. Even when you do import a full album, it often struggles to match tracks. Here's part of a transcript I saved:

    Match (29.3%):
    StarSystems - Lift
    ≠ artist, album, tracks, unmatched tracks
    MusicBrainz, CD-R, 2019, GB, None, None, None
    https://musicbrainz.org/release/7c68b7ff-27c0-4da7-8430-d4228c6f6ff8
    ≠ Artist:  -> StarSystems
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Arrival [2238026155].mp3 (1:08) -> (#1) Arrival (1:08)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Slipstream [1268364723].mp3 (6:23) -> (#2) Flower (6:25)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Trigger Fish [1805252711].mp3 (5:06) -> (#3) Party Time (5:03)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Moth [857985311].mp3 (4:51) -> (#4) Moth (4:51)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Vortex [1717930774].mp3 (5:38) -> (#5) Vortex (5:38)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Flower [3129604796].mp3 (6:25) -> (#6) Slipstream (6:23)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Party Time [545976708].mp3 (5:03) -> (#7) Trigger Fish (5:06)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Lift (feat. Jordan Rudess) [3330158657].mp3 (8:09) -> (#8) Lift (feat. Jordan Rudess) (8:09)
        ≠ (#0) StarSystems - Disengage [526901544].mp3 (2:01) -> (#9) Disengage (2:01)
    Unmatched tracks (1):
    !  (#0) (5:06)
     Apply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
    Rescan directory, Enter search, enter Id, aBort?

Picard has worked flawlessly for me so far, it's just a shame it can't be automated.

Ah, yeah — it was a rough process when I moved my library to it, but I have a rather involved workflow around it https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/expanding-my-music-pipeline