How To Use Musicbrainz Picard (Musicbrainz Picard Tutorial)

[@AnimeExorcist]

This is exactly the tutorial I needed. Straight to the point and easy steps.

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

Excellent straightforward tutorial with no useless banter. 100% informative.

[@Krycius]

Only issue I have with this software is that if you have a good amount of old school music, or any music from say the 90's and older, it will find "Best Of" albums and enter the year of that rather than the actual year the song was released. It rarely finds actual release albums for older music and instead give the tags from collections or "Best of" releases which can give you the wrong release dates and album data.

[@Meletion1]

Yeah, have you found anything?

[@Markeviciuss]

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[@lmaoroflcopter]

Yup, it's not meant to be hands free. You have to drag the tracks around to the correct release. It's not as simple as "scan and forget".

[@BarnyHill]

If only all You Tube videos were so professional.

[@XSTAYUPX]

Awesome guide, awesome program. So well presented!!! Perfect thank you!!

[@justinjohnson4779]

Great tutorial, thank you for taking the time to create and share it!

[@SilentRio]

Promo Only folders for da win!!! ;-) Cheers for the videos and info. concise clear and VERY useful. Cheers 👊

[@catsupchutney]

This answered a lot of questions, thanks!

[@melsterne3484]

Loving this vid, really need to sort my music somehow as not a serato user

[@DJCEE_B]

Thank you!

[@Maisonier]

Amazing video. I just want to know how to remove duplicated files. I have many times the same song with different names, bitrate and size ... I couldn't find any option in Musicbrainz, the software just rename the duplicates adding (1) in the file name.

[@Markeviciuss]

Have you found a solution? ;)

[@Fanta....]

You can use duplicate file finder and search by a 15 second or 2 minute sample. then delete. Then search by hash to find exact byte for byte matches as opposed to similar songs made by a bunch of different people. . Alternatively, you could use mp3tag, then convert tag to file and organise by \%artist%\%album%\%Artist% - %title% This should minimise a lot of duplicates. If you want to preserve the ability to look up files by the old folder names you had them in, you can use tag-tag feature and replace the comments field with the directory path This will allow you to sort by comments in id3, which will rearrange by old folder name. This is all very resource intensive, so best done with a m.2 or ssd drive or ideally a different standalone computer altogether.

[@786Muzik]

Thank you for this tutorial !! Great work. Question, Do I need to use itunes or can I just have it saved back to my back to my hard drive ?

[@ianneill1400]

Thanks for the Vid - Question, does it gather Composer info??? Thanks!!

[@aires69uk]

How do you save all of the metadata information but not the albumart?

[@SimonHartman]

MusicBrainz Picard > Options > Cover Art > Untick the boxes :)

[@carlos_mann]

Will this work with mp4s? Artist, Title, Year etc. Another thing, how come it doesn't update the genre?

[@fumiagro]

Excelente tutorial, muchas gracias!

[@DINU_R]

Can it also find the genre of the tracks?

[@sabret00the]

Useful video

[@Okey-McDokey]

Nice. Straight. Thank you

[@beardedgaming1337]

ok, what does the red and yellow cd icons mean? im going through 140K files with this program rn

[@vinnieesposito8645]

Here I am looking for containers for a linux server for audio stream and come across a goldmine! This looks like a nice conatiner to add to the stack!

[@bloodcell6282]

What happens if I have record pool tracks with intro in the file name?

[@carlos_mann]

Have you tried?

[@amara2053]

I've edited all my Song Titles with "Clean" or "Dirty". Is there a way to prevent Musicbrainz from overwriting the song titles? I'm actually only interested in using Musicbrainz to modify the Genre and Year .

[@carlos_mann]

Have you tried? If so results?

[@caberquake]

There is an app in the Microsoft Store for this...and I am still confused

[@thefluffyguide]

Sadly doesn't work well for genre tags, for what I've tested it and wanted it to use. A lotta times it doesn't get any genre tags, sometimes it gets some, but they're wrong or the correct one is inside 4 or 5 more genre tags that also get added. Hope your lexicon dj software does a better job at this and if not that I can get a refund. Sadly can't test this feature in the demo version... Would be great to test out the tag finding option in the lexicon demo but not be able to save the tags. This way one would know if the software is worth the money and at the same time you are secured in the way that someone has to buy the software in order to actually get the results lexicon presents.

[@M_E_T_R_O__9]

Does it add the official BPM? as Serato gets it wrong 99% of the time.... looking for something that solves this.. thanks

[@DarneIITV]

thanks sir

[@lmaoroflcopter]

If you follow this guide, you're going to mess up all of your tag information. In the example given he makes a mistake, that lil' kim track is unlikely to be a single track on its own from the 3 track single. He's probably actually got 2 more tracks in his listing that have been misattributed to different albums. As he just saved everything though, he just labelled everything with the incorrect labels. This means as you view plex. You'll get something like... album1 - Track 03 album2 - Track 14 album3 - Track 1 What he should have done is looked on the left for the Tracks within the same cluster, and dragged them to the correct album on the right. That way you end up with a "gold" album listing and everything is correctly tagged. Obviously this requires you to know what your tracks are in the first place. Throwing several thousand random tracks in picard is going to require some legwork.

[@old-patriot4509]

Great video. Well done and well explained, but... Not very helpful for those of us who have chosen not to be vendor-locked into the Apple iTunes eco-system.

[@DaveZiffer]

This video has really nothing to do with iTunes; that just happens to be his choice of music player and he's just using iTunes to display the fact that MusicBrainz has supplied the metadata. Any reasonable music player would do the same.

[@Fanta....]

have a think where you would drag and drop files from, into the app Einstein.

[@Weegeeguy208]

this tutorial kind of only makes sense if you are using itunes