I hate the interface, and I can never find anything useful using the search. I found the Picard forum to be right next to useless, unless you already have the answer you want. I'm experimenting with a batch of albums and trying different combinations before I start importing into MusicBee, and I now have a few tracks by Toby Keith listed as "Emo." Somehow, I have an "Album Genre" which should be nice. I'm working out how to let it use Last.FM for Decade, Mood, and Ocassion while I use Wikidata for the Genre. MusicBrainz does have a newer plugin for using Last.FM that works, and I've been using the Wikidata with no problem. (Great, instead of simplifying, I've made my process longer, and more complicated unless I can figure out how to script scraping Discogs from within Picard.) I may well end up sticking with a combination of Picard, and my old MM/Discogs Plugin. Their Genres for the album are usually a really good starting point. This was one of the things which led me to Discogs. I spent hours researching genres, and trying to come up with a system, and ultimately failed. I couldn't even be consistent within my own head. I found that order and frame of mind affected how I perceived tracks. I can't even say that the stuff between my ears is any good. I don't think there is a "Good" solution for genres. It will not delete local cover files it finds, it just replaces the tag for embedded art. If you don't embed your art, this is not an issue. If you notice there is no new art listed, you should click "Show More Details" under the art, double-click your current art in the new window, which will open it in a photo viewer, and save a copy to drag and drop back into Picard to save. There is no way to preserve your current art. One HUGE caveat - if your file already has art and Picard cannot find updated art for it, it will DELETE YOUR CURRENT ART IN THE FILE when you save your tags. Clicking the right-facing arrow next to "Cover Art" at the left and setting the size. You can adjust the allowed size by for Cover Art Archive by.ģ. Amazon has almost everything as you would imagine, but sizes vary wildly. and Cover Art Archive have large cover art (1000x1000 and above, generally) and a wide selection between them. Options->Options->Cover Art and adjust the rankings. You will need a free API key, which you can get by registering on their siteĢ. I only ever do front covers, so my response here might not apply to your specific needs, but there are ways to improve the retrieved art.ġ. I am not a coder, and trying to create scripts is really driving that point home.Īrt is a weak spot for Picard for sure. Once the IDs are all set from the first cycle, subsequent cycles will be faster.Ĩ. It is not "Set it and forget it" for updating an existing library. Maybe it's just me, but the documentation is only adequate at best.Ħ. The Album Art is fairly disappointing compared to Discogs.ĥ. (Should be common sense, but I'm not taking anything for granted.)Ĥ. Work with a copied subset of your library until you are comfortable with the results. You can get pretty good information without resorting to them.ģ. Picard is incredibly powerful, and can be customized with scripts. Drag the Root of the folders to the left side and then "Cluster." It will be much better.Ģ. If your files are already sorted into directories, don't drag the root folder to MusicBrainz, and let it sort them out. Feel free to chime in with resources, or pointers.ġ. Based on a post in Questions, about Advanced Auto Playlist options, I am switching to MusicBrainz Picard for Tagging.
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