![]() The public Musicbrainz instance is simply crap if you want consistency, and it's far too incomplete if your collection is bigger than some thousands files. ![]() In an ideal world, where I'd have an unlimited amount of time, I would just spin up my own Musicbrainz instance and enter every single album in it using consistent styling (then tags the files from this custom database). The (really rare) things I have to retag, are tagged by hand directly. Picard uses the metadata to update each file’s tags, but you can also have it rename the files and even place them in folders according to any naming scheme you see fit. You select an album folder in Picard and it will try to find matches in its fingerprints. Picard requires a bit more care than MusicBee. If you use the MusicBrainz Picard tool (available in the Windows Store ), you can fix missing and broken metadata. It became unmanageable when more and more albums (or artists) were missing (if I remember correctly, almost a quarter of my collection was missing back then, and I had a collection ten times smaller than today).Īfter a lot of thinking, because of this and because of the main issue with the Musicbrainz DB - the fact that it's inconsistent (tags styling across albums varies in the way they're entered, especially featured artists - that are entered in at least 4 different ways), I ended up just giving up on using it, and now just use my files as-is. Unlike Discogs, though, the music in MusicBrainz has been fingerprinted. Back when I used beets, I just added everything to Musicbrainz.
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