![]() Under “File Naming” I selected “Move files when saving” and “Move additional files”. Most of my music was purchased on iTunes, but I have some very old MP3s from the pre-iTunes days which don’t have any metadata, so I can use Picard to look them up based on their music fingerprint, similar to how apps like SoundHound or Shazam work. Under “Fingerprinting” I clicked on the “Get API Key…”. Under “Cover Art”, I enabled “Embed cover images into tags” and “Save cover images as separate files” (lots of apps like to see a “cover.jpg” file in the save folder as the album) and then I checked all the “Cover Art Providers”. Under “Metadata”, check “Translate artist names to this locale where possible” (I have some Japanese artists in my collection, such as Yoko Kanno, and while I can recognize their Japanese names in context, I wouldn’t want to try to type one into a searchbox.) This would be a really good time to make a backup of your whole music library. Backupīefore we start, we’re using some software which is going to automatically overwrite data in files and move files around on disk. MusicBrainz Picard has a nice UI and is pretty easy to use. Beets is very popular program for this, but it’s not being actively maintained. What we want is some automated way of fixing all this metadata, and sorting files into the correct folder based on their metadata. There’s probably some spelling mistakes in there, and maybe you have some files where the artist is “Blink 182” and some are “blink-182” - things like this. If you have a large music collection, you probably have some old songs in there you ripped from CDs, and they might have some metadata that’s not quite up-to-snuff. Information added to various sections to improve usability.I’ve spent some time playing with a couple of different tools for organizing my MP3 collection.Format and tag handling has been improved.Built-in search for albums, artists, tracks.Picard 1.4 changesĪ full list of changes has been published on the MusicBrainz website. This includes among other things support for Last.fm tags, generation of m3u playlists, lyrics support, or adding the artist's official homepage if available. The several dozen plugins that are available currently add functionality to the software. Select Options > Plugins to browse the list of available plugins for the music software, and click on the install button to install them directly. It has been improved in the latest version, as it is now integrated in the program. Other options include looking up information online, or looking up CD information.Īnother interesting feature of Picard in general is plugin support. You may use the scan for any file, and proper identification of all songs of an album will move it to the right side on the interface. If files get identified correctly, metadata is set for these files automatically so that you don't need to do so manually. The developers have access to a large database of audio fingerprints, and may compare unmatched music files to the database to identify them automatically. Picard supports something that MusicBrainz calls acoustic fingerprint. ![]() While it may not be able to do so for all files that are not matched, it may do so for quite a few.Īnother helpful feature is scan. ![]() The cluster feature for instance sorts all unmatched files into albums. ![]()
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