Hi all,

I’m looking for something to automatically tag some old music files I have sitting around. I’ve been working with Picard, but a lot of albums are not in MusicBrainz, and adding them has been a serious PITA. Is there any kind of software that either:

  1. Can apply metadata directly from a streaming service (like this script for adding albums to MusicBrainz does)?
  2. Can simply allow me to manually edit metadata with an interface that isn’t completely awful to use?

or even:

  1. Two separate tools, one to grab metadata and another to manually add it (maybe a CLI interface for batch operations?)

Appreciative of any advice—I just hope there’s a better way, with how tedious this can be.

EDIT: Just to specify, I’m on NixOS.

  • Blastboom Strice
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    4 months ago

    I haven’t tried, but if you’re on linux you could try puddletag. OneTagger is very powerfull too (and cross platform). I also have some extra tools that may help you in this guide I made here (it’s a guide on how to semi-automatically download and tag music, for a windows pc).