The right side column shows albums from the musicBrainz web site.
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You can drag and drop any file from the left side into an album on the right and the software will attempt to match the dragged files to it Scanning attempts to look at your files and find a matching album to add on the right side If you see a music icon, it's not a file, it's an unmatched track Each track is shown with a little music icon. You can browse manually MusicBrainz in any way you want, and then once you found an album, you can click the TAG link to have Picard display all the information on the right column, ready for a drag and drop match. This feature is very powerful, I wish it would work with Discogs too. The "Lookup" feature attempts to match files buy their existing tags, file size, position etc. The "Scan" feature attempts to match files by their fingerprint ID. It's more precise and more effective to find a lone file out of context, but it often returns a bit of anything in terms of album, since a single track can appear in a lot of different albums.
If you scan from a clustered group, it will try to find an album that also has the other files in it. Options: Options - Audio Fingerprinting: Use AcoustID Options: Options - Cover Art: tick Embed cover images into tags, only embed a front image Options: Options - File Naming: tick Rename files when saving Options: Options - File Naming: tick Move files when saving, set destination directory in the Sorted folder and Delete empty directories The process of properly tagging with it looks like this:Ĭreate an Unsorted folder and dump all your files in thereĬreate a Sorted folder outside the Unsorted folder (obviously)Ĭonfigure Picard to make it so in the Sorted Folder : The "Lookup in Browser" will work like "Lookup" but instead of returning the best match to the right column, it will open it in the browser in MusicBrainz and you can then click around and navigate to find a different version and click the TAG button to return THAT album instead. All the file will appear in a folder named "Unclustered Files" in the middle column Options: Tick Rename Files, Move Files and Save TagsĮnable the folder view in the left column: View : tick File Browserĭrag your unsorted folder from the folder view into the middle column. Give it a few minutes and it will attempt to group all your files by album in the middle column under "Clusters" Select the unclustered file folder and click "Cluster" in the main menu. I suggest not picking everything at once, but concentrate on one cluster at a time, because it limits the possible tracks to match to and it makes the matching more efficient.Ĭlick "Lookup" - this will use the existing tags in the cluster to find a matching album and author on MusicBrainz. If it found it, it will move the cluster to the third column on the right side and then attempt to match each song to the albumĬheck the files. If they have a green icon, the match was good. in quality/size).If it's yellow or red, you need to verify why it wasn't well matched. This way you can decide which file you want to keep in case they differ (e.g.
I would recommend searching for *(1).mp3 and deleting the files manually. Solutions for actually deleting the files differ from OS to OS. Retagging a file that has already been tagged using picard is much faster, because fingerprints are not calculated twice. You can run the program again later to give the real name after the superfluous files are deleted. To be sure that this is not misleading,put each album into separate folders and include the track number in the filename (such as $Albumartist/$Album/$Number - $Title). So for example the first file may be named Artist - Song.mp3 and the second is then Artist - Song (1).mp3. If there are duplicates the filename will have an additional number in braces. It also offers renaming and moving the files. This takes fingerprints of your files and tags them correctly.
You first need to find out which songs are duplicates and then delete them.įor finding duplicates I recommend MusicBrainz Picard. I think your problem constists of two subproblems.
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