MusicBrainz Picard

MusicBrainz Picard is a free cross-platform application program for the MusicBrainz database, written in Python. With him the appropriate metadata can be loaded to local music files from the Internet database, or - if no matching records are available - such are also self- completed and uploaded. The focus of this current reference program for the MusicBrainz service are the albums - oriented approach and the cross-platform availability.

To locate the matching records existing metadata is used or, also known as acoustic fingerprints and its calibration since version 0.7.

After assigning a song or album to a record Picard stores in the associated music file is not only the common metadata ( such as title, artist, album ), but also the so-called MusicBrainz IDs, the title, artist and album clearly identify. In addition, Picard offers the function to move the enriched music files in a user-defined central directory with a standardized but customizable, directory and file name format is used.

For version 0.9 Picard was completely rewritten. He has a new release- oriented interface and now uses Qt, which is simplified, cross-platform development.

The supported metadata formats

  • ID3 tags ( MP3)
  • Vorbis comments ( Ogg Vorbis, Speex, FLAC )
  • APE tags ( Musepack, WavPack, The True Audio)
  • MP4
  • Windows Media Audio

As acoustic fingerprints to version 1.2 Portable Unique Identifiers ( PUIDs ) were used. A piece of music in one of the supported formats must be analyzed once with the MusicDNS software to produce a PUID and upload it to the PUID server. After this PUID and thus a database record can most all formats of this piece then be assigned in MusicBrainz.

Instead PUIDs the integrated since version 1.0 AcoustID system is now used, which was developed by the Picard developers Lukáš Lalinský.

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