Must have apps for running your own personal media.
Updates:
May 20th, 2022: Replaced Mylar with Mylar3. Removed Cardigan due to discontinuation of development. May 17th, 2022: Removed CouchPotato since it has been officially discontinued and the github repo archived by the author. Added "Readarr" and "Requestrr" to media management and request management. May 16th, 2022: Added additional apps to the Honorable Mentions section. March 27, 2019: Added MediaElch for metadata editing, TagScanner for audio file metadata editing, and Emby as an alternative to Plex. December 3, 2018: Added Soundiiz for online music service playlist synchronization. July 30, 2018: Added Mylar and Ombi. July 28, 2018: Added Honorable Mentions section with other noteworthy media apps. July 11, 2018: Added cTiVo as a media downloader. June 18, 2018: Added a section for Search and Indexer utilities, which may utilized by the various Media Managers also listed below.
TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text...
Edit and organize audio metadata easily with comprehensive support for batch editing and various audio formats. Available free for Windows; macOS version costs $20.
Batch file and folder renaming with meta tag support, RegEx, rule sets, prefix, suffix, case change, extension handling, and Unicode compatibility.
Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries -...
Mylar is an automated Comic Book library manager. It automates downloads to series you subscribe to.
Mylar has been replaced by Mylar3, an updated version of Mylar coded in Python 3.
Comments
MediaPortal, MP3tag and MPTagThat deserve at least honorable mention!
this list is great
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