MusicBrainz Picard is a music tag editor that identifies recordings and retrieves metadata from the MusicBrainz database. It is designed to help organise digital music collections, particularly albums containing missing, inconsistent or incorrect tags.
Picard takes an album-oriented approach to tagging. Rather than treating every recording independently, it matches files against releases in MusicBrainz, allowing it to distinguish between different editions, recordings and track listings.
The application can also rename and reorganise music files according to configurable rules, making it useful for maintaining large music libraries.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Retrieve artist, album, track, release date, genre and other metadata from MusicBrainz.
- Identify recordings using AcoustID acoustic fingerprints, even when existing metadata is missing.
- Group files into clusters and match them against albums and releases.
- Perform manual lookups when automatic identification produces ambiguous results.
- Read and write metadata in MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, MP4, WMA, WAV and other supported audio formats.
- Retrieve cover art from the Cover Art Archive and other configured providers.
- Embed artwork into audio files or save images separately.
- Rename files and organise folders using configurable naming scripts.
- Use a scripting language to manipulate metadata and control file naming.
- Look up audio CDs and submit disc identifiers to MusicBrainz.
- Preview metadata changes before saving updated tags.
- Preserve selected existing tags and customise how metadata is written.
- Extend functionality using plugins for additional metadata sources, tagging operations and workflows.
- Support user-defined tags, ratings and custom metadata fields.
- Configure proxy connections and metadata lookup preferences.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: picard.musicbrainz.org
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Developer: Lukáš Lalinský, Robert Kaye, Philipp Wolfer, Sambhav Kothari
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
MusicBrainz Picard is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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