MusicBrainz Picard
MusicBrainz Picard ("Picard") is a cross-platform MusicBrainz
tag editor written in Python.
Picard is intended to be the next generation of
tagger for the MusicBrainz application, with a focus on album-oriented
(as opposed to track-based) tagging and cross platform compatibility.
MusicBrainz Picard is named after the character Captain
Jean-Luc Picard from the TV science fiction series Star Trek:
The Next Generation.
Features include:
- Supports the following formats:
- MP3, TTA (ID3)
- Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Speex (Vorbis comment)
- Musepack, WavPack, OptimFROG, Monkey's Audio (APEv2 tag)
- AAC, ALAC (MP4)
- The True Audio
- Windows Media Audio
- WAV
- Automatic identification of audio files through the
MusicDNS service using the Open Fingerprint Architecture acoustic
fingerprinting technology
- Manual lookups for more control over how your files are
tagged
- Performs CD lookups and disc ID submissions
- Cover art
- Plugins to extend functionality such as:
- Disc Numbers - moves (disc X) from releases titles into
separate tags (discnumber and discsubtitle).
- Feat. Artists - removes (feat. Artist) parts from track
titles
- Cover Art Downloader - downloads cover art for optional
tag embedding and/or saving as a separate image file
- Last.fm Tags
- Last.fm Plus
- Search Plugins - launches searches for clusters or
releases to external non-MB websites from Picard
- Change Encoding - converts the tags of individual files
or clusters between different character encodings
- Live syntax checking for tagger script and naming strings
- Support ratings
- Support for user folskonomy tags
- Simple scripting
- Use a web proxy
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