And keep in mind that the info in the MusicBrainz database varies in quality. Don't expect to be able to do your whole library at once. I find Picard most manageable with <1000 tracks at a time.
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Also, if it's trying to download a lot of artwork it will slow things way down.
If you have artwork you can't easily find again with MB, be sure to move it to an external file before tagging with Picard so you can add it back later. You can get artwork from several sources, some of which is really good, and in the latest version even rank sources, but it will overwrite embedded artwork even if there's nothing else found. My only major complaint with Picard is that it is really poor at artwork management. But as of 2019 MusicBrainz has added better built-in genre support, so hopefully those plugins will be less needed. (helpful since MusicBrainz moved to entering featured artists as show on the release)īeware that some plugins, notably some of the genre plugins, can slow things down.
* Standardize Performers / Format Performer Tags (really helpful if you're going to use the performer tags in any meaningful way) *Add Cluster As Release (if MusicBrainz doesn't have the album you're trying to tag, you can use this to quickly create it based on the info currently in the files - only works for whole albums) Scripts are very helpful for customization, and there are lots of handy plugins, too. (Scripts go in Options > Advanced > Scripting.) For instance, I unset a bunch of miscellaneous info that Picard provides that I don't care about: To keep a tag from being written at all, you make a script that says $unset(tag). Picard will still fill in values for blank tags, even if the tag is "preserved". You can use this to protect any tag that you don't want changed, including replay gain tags and MB custom tags. One thing that is super important in using Picard and MB together is the "preserve these tags from being cleared or overwritten with MusicBrainz data" field. Non-Latin characters sometimes cause problems when sending this way, in which case you can drag & drop.
That will send all selected files to one instance, instead of opening a separate instance for each file. To configure Picard as a "Send To" application, use "" as your parameters. If you're going to do much scripting, this tag mapping chart can be helpful: Īn article that I wrote on using Picard scripts to tag MB's special tags: There's a list of handy Picard scripts at the end of this page: MusicBrainz Tagger Support forum (usually pretty responsive): Official Picard updates are extremely few and far between (I've been using Picard since 2009, and it's on 2.0). (MusicBrainz and MusicBee both abbreviate MB, but since this is the MusicBee forum if I use that here I mean MusicBee.) Here's some info to get you started, for folks interested in using MusicBrainz Picard for tagging.
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