MusicBrainz Picard - Auto ID3 Tag Rename & Cover Art - Linux Mint 8

install picard

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrain...

MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger.
Picard supports the majority of audio file formats, is capable of using audio fingerprints (PUIDs), performing CD lookups and disc ID submissions, and it has excellent Unicode support. Additionally, there are several plugins available that extend Picard's features.
When tagging files, Picard uses an album oriented approach. This approach allows it to utilize the MusicBrainz data as effectively as possible and correctly tag your music.

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someone asked me this so this is the
answer ok but basically this program
will tag your music for you rename the
file name and even down the album art
for you
ok let me talk about me show you what
I'm talking about here so i have a
folder filled with mp3's and it's not in
the correct name there is no tags for it
you know the id3 tags and all that
nothing in here right but what this
program would do is uh I guess it finds
the fingerprint or what they call it the
puid portable unique identifier for the
songs but this is the program is called
musicbrainz picard and it works
cross-platform so any platform you have
your work
ok so let's add a folder and basically
I'm just going to add the ones that is
all messed up here right this is all
there are files and all you gotta do is
hit and highlighted offers and then
we're going to hit scan basically it's
going to look for
was it the
just looking for the fingerprint that's
all it does
so this is a local stuff and this is
where is working now he's going to try
to match our files with the correct
names and you'll see the list i want to
say is a hundred percent correct but the
ninety percent of the time I would say
is correct
ok so here goes is trying to find our
shit and the red stuff is what is
finding but you still have to give it
time and there you go say still looking
for a puid and basically the database on
the cloud somewhere so we'll wait into
it does all his job and there goes his
is counting down the list secure
almost completed
so that's it for that now some of them
sometimes they'll give you like
unmatch files here just try to a scan
again
all right now the skin doesn't work you
can always try the look up look up here
and basically looking for the metadata
but the scan is a good enough
ok so you have all your files right I
gotta do not just save it so you see how
you have our files like this before
this step will fill in the tags you know
I id3 tags and even rename it to in the
file name itself so this is let me show
you what it is so that's how I like all
this and right click and save ok you see
the check marks and that's it you're
done with that
let's go back to this there you go
everything is renamed it and even the
properties you should have our mid are
id3 tags right so that's how that works
and only one step and even the album art
ok this one graduate from amazon.com
so if you click on this open the browser
and you look up and they invited right
there you like it too but that's really
all you gotta do you know loaded up hit
scan or look up and pretty much it but
let me show you the settings that i use
for this and first of all I'll get this
version the news version
10 . 12 right now maybe this version has
the album art downloading that works for
me
that's why i recommend you get that
version anyways in the options here
again set it to auto scan when you load
it up you like you don't need an account
i only know why would you need account
but leave that by default not really
important tags just viewed by default
they have it the cover art here is you
know whether you wanted to be embedded
inside the mp3's itself or separate i
would say putting embedded will stay in
there okay
I only download the the front cover I
believe it doesn't download the back
cover
so just be aware of that if that's what
you're looking for as far as moving the
files i will move the files to a
different folder if you like if you want
to do that
okay and also have an option is to
delete certain files like your image i
nie
and some DBS and all that crap file
naming I didn't like the default like it
this way the artist track name
I mean I'm not tracking tracking number
by two digits
ok so it feels in 20 in 10 to know that
by two digits and album you know the
album been in the title and this 1i I
don't really do this one so i uncheck
that and just use this as a default but
basically this is how i look like okay
so you have the artist the track number
the album and the title song so that's
how it looks like he wants an example
that's not important and the plugins is
what I like
also this one is to download your cover
art
ok so basically what you see over here
is what is downloading that this number
here is basically gets rid of the give
you some examples here if the album has
like you know cd1 and all that crap
organs removed upon the name
same thing with the feature artist so
let's say you have like two artists in
there like Lady Gaga featuring with
Donna i'll just get rid of the featuring
Madonna
and i like that you get rid of that crap
because of its just nice and neat for me
and there's another one and i think i
like to see last.fm basically use
last.fm for their genre so fill in like
the RMB you know rap what kind of shit
is it and the title case basically the
first letter is capitalized for every
word like a neat i said and i do have
more plugins that you like click on this
and open the page and you can download
more plugins so that's that and he
misses last.fm there's more options for
last of them you know use a track tags
and all that
not important Wow and advanced here i
guess you can do some
what does this look up you can actually
increase this percentage wise i guess
for more accuracy when you're matching
don't know any script like this but you
can do that user interface i guess you
can do is multiple directories if you
have liked more than one and you want to
select more directories you could do
that otherwise is won by default and is
the about but arias all the supported
formats that it can do even black if you
like that
ok alright that's it for that and as far
as the views this is the guest the file
browser you see what that was this so
the cover art is down here and all that
if you want to do the views
ok as far as the auction this is
important
make sure you check the rename files and
the save tags now if you're going to
move your files then make sure you check
that also but basically that is it you
know that's all you gotta do and i
really recommend you get this if you
have music okay and maybe download life
from the internet and the other the tags
that they have on online is uploaded by
idiots they always have it like messing
up and all that but this program it
grabs it for you automatically so that's
great even the album art so you can load
it on your you know handheld mp3 player
or something and you see your album art
so that's pretty much it and we'll get
it that's all