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The MusicBrainz green tagger buttons and Picard's Lookup button are still there, but Picard is now better at automatically searching, and the Lookup and tagger buttons are now only used in manual searches. To choose the best match manually, I clicked on a green tagger button on the website, which then updated Picard. The old interface required that I use the Lookup button to open a web page on MusicBrainz. I noticed a difference in basic functionality between the time I first tried Picard (January 2009) and the time I wrote this article. Picard and MusicBrainz were fast in performing lookups over a cable-based network connection. Picard also crashed when I tried to import my entire collection, so you might want to consider tagging a small set of album directories at a time.

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It performed best with well-known artists and albums but had more trouble identifying movie soundtracks and couldn't recognize some of my classical albums at all. Picard works great on files that already have some tag information and works fairly well on those without any tags. By working on copies, you can always start over until you have Picard configured to produce the best results. However, you'll be happy you did it if you run into errors in how the new files are named or tagged. In either case, it might be wise to make a complete copy of your collection before starting the tagging process, which will require large amounts of disk space. If your collection already has some tagging, then dragging the top folder into Unmatched Files might be more successful. If this is the first time you are tagging your collection, do it a few folders at a time, and process fringe music (e.g., soundtracks) in even smaller groups. If your collection is missing ID3 tags, dropping your entire collection at once onto Unmatched Files will leave a lot of unmatched files and a potentially huge number of albums in the right column. Unfortunately, Picard and MusicBrainz won't match every file. If you try this, it could take quite some time for Picard to complete the matching process. To tag an entire collection, you could just drag the folder containing all the music files into Unmatched Files. When all files have been tagged, select all entries in the right column once again and use the Remove button to clear the right column. This makes it easier to determine what files and folders are still to be processed. The settings used in this example (set via the Options menu) will move the files, not copy them, to another directory. As it completes processing of the file, Picard will mark the entries in the right column with green checks. This process can take a while, especially if your source and destination directories are on NFS mounts.

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Once the change is complete, select all tracks and albums in the right column and click on the Save button to update the files on disk. To clean up some space in the list and make it easier to drag album entries around, choose Remove from the menu to remove the album entry.įigure 7: Few exact matches is not a serious problem, as long as each file in a folder is matched to a track on an album. When an album has no more matches (i.e., all the entries have the musical notes icon), right-click on the album name to post a menu. To fix this, you can drag the entry from the wrong album over the entry for the correct album. Picard found them in a compilation album before it found them in the band's debut album.

In some cases, Picard found a matching track but under the wrong album, which is what happened with Party and Foreplay/Long Time ( Figure 5). Any entry with a reddish/pinkish tint is simply an entry that is not an exact match and might need your attention. Orange and red indicate less accurate matches. Green means your audio file matches exactly the entry Picard chose for it on the basis of its acoustic fingerprint. The colors include green, yellow, orange, and red. Matched entries (i.e., entries that were under Unmatched Files but which Picard matched to tracks and albums in the right column) display various colored block icons. Some missing tracks are still in Unmatched Files. Figure 4: Picard and MusicBrainz matched four of eight tracks for the first album.