[geeks] music collection flac and mp3 by device

[Nathan Raymond]

You can right-click and see a bunch of alternate version of albums. I find
that it gets relatively close to the right album most of the time, but
about half the time I manually select the right one (typically minor
regional varations that most often just affect artwork). If you think the
website might have an album that isn't being auto-selected, you can go to
the website from the app, and then there will be links in the website next
to any album that when clicked are a special type of url that will pass
back to the running program an 'empty' version of an album ready to have
the tracks dragged to it for tagging.

I have add-on scripts to do things like remove "with [so and so]" from the
artist field and move that to the track field. I always manually
check/correct genre, adding it when it's missing.

Regarding what Picard doesn't have, you can join their community (I did)
and now when I rip an album that is not in their database (which is rare),
I scan the artwork and submit the tracks to the database, and pretty much
right away the Picard app will pick up the new entry and use it. I feel
better about that than if I just one-off manually entered the metadata just
locally for my own purposes alone.


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> 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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