[geeks] music collection flac and mp3 by device

Phil Stracchino phils at caerllewys.net
Fri Sep 30 12:40:41 CDT 2016


On 09/30/16 12:00, Nathan Raymond wrote:
> For tagging, I recommend MusicBrainz Picard:
> 
> https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
> 
> It supports plugin scripts, and there are a lot of great ones. It can even
> scan the audio of tracks, create a fingerprint, and then compare that
> fingerprint to other databases of tracks to identify them. The interface
> has what I would consider to be a lot of quirks, and a bunch of not-obvious
> stuff, but once I learned how to use it, I could not live without it.


I've used Picard a few times myself.  It won't identify *everything*,
but on what it does know it's usually reasonably accurate.  The usual
disclaimer for any crowdsourced data applies:  Trust, but verify.


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