MusicBrainz Picard (“Picard”) is a cross-platform, open source, MusicBrainz tag editor written in the Python programming language.
Picard is intended to be the next generation of tagger for the MusicBrainz application, with a focus on album-oriented (as opposed to track-based) tagging and cross platform compatibility.
When tagging files, Picard uses an album-oriented approach. This approach allows it to use the MusicBrainz data effectively and correctly tag your music.
Features include:
- Supports the following formats:
- MP3, TTA (ID3).
- Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Speex (Vorbis comment).
- Musepack, WavPack, OptimFROG, Monkey’s Audio (APEv2 tag).
- AAC, ALAC (MP4).
- The True Audio.
- Windows Media Audio.
- AIF.
- m2a.
- WAV.
- Automatic identification of audio files through the MusicDNS service using the Open Fingerprint Architecture acoustic fingerprinting technology.
- Manual lookups for more control over how your files are tagged.
- Performs CD lookups and disc ID submissions.
- Cover art.
- Plugins to extend functionality such as:
- Disc Numbers – moves (disc X) from releases titles into separate tags (discnumber and discsubtitle).
- Feat. Artists – removes (feat. Artist) parts from track titles.
- Cover Art Downloader – downloads cover art for optional tag embedding and/or saving as a separate image file.
- Last.fm Tags.
- Last.fm Plus.
- Search Plugins – launches searches for clusters or releases to external non-MB websites from Picard.
- Change Encoding – converts the tags of individual files or clusters between different character encodings.
- Live syntax checking for tagger script and naming strings.
- Support for audio fingerprints using AcoustIDs.
- Support ratings.
- Support for user folskonomy tags.
- Simple scripting.
- Use a web proxy.
- Multi-platform support – Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
MusicBrainz Picard is named after the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the TV science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Website: picard.musicbrainz.org
Support: Documentation, Quick Start, FAQ, GitHub
Developer: Lukáš Lalinský, Robert Kaye, Philipp Wolfer, Sambhav Kothari
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
MusicBrainz Picard is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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