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.

  • @[email protected]
    7•3 months ago

    kid3 can apply metadata based on the filename if that’s useful for you (just things like title and track depending on how you name your files). I also use it for manually editing metadata once in a while, selecting multiple songs and setting the same artist or album tag is pretty easy to do.

  • Blastboom Strice
    3•3 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).

  • tehWrapperEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    I have not tagged music files in a very long time but last I did it was with easytag.

  • @[email protected]
    1•3 months ago

    Sorry to hijack the thread, but does anyone known a terminal tool I can use to auto-tag the odd album when I find one with bad tags?

    Music is stored on the server and served read only, so gui tools are not convinient.

    Picard is great, but gui.

  • adr1an
    0•3 months ago

    I wonder if Jellyfin can find metadata like it does with movies. Perhaps via a plugin?. Apart from that, all functionality (e.g. streaming) works with music just like it does with videos and that’s great!