Thank you for this video! I'm ditiching streaming for a variety of reasons and refreshing my self-hosted library. When I discovered that CDDB was no longer a real option, I fell down the Musicbrainz rabbit hole. Picard is rather daunting and none of the other videos really cover usage in any depth. I feel quite comfortable now thanks to your tutelage!
what is the difference between example 1 and 2? All the steps were exactly the same... Also too much zooming in&out >.
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why do we copy the music in the first step? Just to have a back-up if the files are not correctly converted? Is MusicBrainz Picard not always reliable?
Picard itself seems very reliable, but as for any app, there's always a risk - especially because the (User+App) system can be less reliable (e.g. when we have not read and understood or remembered our config settings and their implications). I also take time to label the copy as either SafeCopy or PlayCopy - so I don't forget and get them the wrong way round! Also (of course) a separate backup of my collection to unconnected storage (e.g. external disks). Most professionals agree that media of any importance should be stored in at least three different storage items, never all connected at the same time and at least one of them at a separate physical location (different building/town).
Picard can be unreliable. You can if not careful completely destroy all of your tag information if you run it without a back up and recovering from that can be a complete nightmare. So you copy your music and keep the back up at least until you're happy with the outcome of picard. A lesson too... do not get complacent. Picard performed amazingly well over the ~1500 files of sent through it slowly in batches, so I loaded a larger set of tracks feeling confident, and in a few seconds I'd completely destroyed my tag information across several thousand tracks.
Thank you! I ripped my entire CD collection with Microsoft Media Player ( 15 GB) to mp3 format . I put every CD album into it's own subdirectory. My Sony music player gives the "dreaded “Unknown Artist: and “Track 1” for the first track in every album, the others seem fine... so far. None of the albums have the artwork. Anyway, your software solution looks like a fix to this. I am still going to try and program it because there may be a thousand or so CD subdirectories involved.
I just downloaded MusicBrainz Picard today. I have Windows version 2.5.6 running. Is that the latest? My version does NOT have the ribbon bar that you show in the View menu at 0:50
@@TeflDude wait a minute - are you in the MusicBrainz app or Windows 10 File Explorer? I'm thinking you are in File Explorer with some black skin added. The standard Windows 10 theme would have made this more intuitive about what you were doing.
What a fantastic video! I have been literally scratching my head how to work with this program, this will make life so much more bearable with all the music I would like to rip from my CDs. Thank you so much.
Tell me, I have the following problem: I have about 800 songs on my flash drive, my car player wants to play songs alphabetically, even if I put them in a folder in a mixed order. What information needs to be changed so that the car player does not play them alphabetically. Shuffle is not an option when the same songs are constantly playing.
i have some issues, in the past i was able to download songs from YT and the tags were present, recently i tried and most if not all of the songs i have downloaded have no tags, im loading the MP3 to musicbrainz and under uncluster there is a "no entry" symbol next to the song, i tried scanning but getting the "could not load album". i followed your video but alas, not getting it. :(
Just wondering. After you scan the files and they show up on the right. Why do some files show up highlighted pink/light red? Or is it nothing Important.
Very nice layout in the video. I am doing about 10K tracks at a time so I probably won't be looking at the alternative version details, etc. Also, don't have any idea what the purpose of clusters is, but I hope to update all the genres. Thanks again
i listen to chicano rap latin rap it wont work for me did everything u said i just want the numbers change name tags they dont have numbers labeled before the name of the song so its all mix matched everywhere any help on that?
Great tuto ! please another one about the of different way of having the FOLDER or FILE written. For ex folder : RAINBOW (down to earth) For ex file : Rainbow - down to earth - danger zone etc
hey man! tnx for the video i have an issue with the software! i don't want software to put track number in the fixed name! Just the title i needed! what should i do ???
Use Mp3tag to do this. Go to my video... "How to add tags to mp3 audio files using mp3tag". - th-cam.com/video/XO5o9-vVTE4/w-d-xo.html - go to part "Convert tag to filename (20:57)" Highlight all tracks, and then click on "Convert Tag to Filename" (Alt+1). Then in the box Format string: BOX, type only - %title% - and press ok.
For those of us who create music in a digital audio workstation like Pro Tools or Logic and we download at a higher rate than 16bit/44.1kHz, like 24 bit/96kHz, are you able to do that with this software and if you have created your own cover and have it in jpg form, are you able to use it?
Hi great video very help full can you tell me what cataloguing software you use as I'm new to this and was thinking of windows media player on windows 10 as i don't like iTunes thanks for any help you can give
YES, it computes acoustic fingerprints of any music file you throw at it and finds the correct meta data, even if there are no metadata or file names at all to work with. It is in fact the software (and organization) that invented AcoustID, aka "fingerprinting".
Thank you for this clear, concise and well-done tutorial. Even your voice makes it a pleasure to follow this explanation. I see you're a TEFL teacher, so that really explains it all. I'm also a TEFL teacher, so I can relate to why clarity is of the utmost importance. Many thanks... :-)
@@TeflDude You're welcome. I've also watched a few of your other videos and they're of the same EXCELLENT quality. Thank you for the time & effort you put into these. Keep up the great work.
I'm still struggling with some, the explanation seems perfect then when I try to do it it doesnt work lol. I must be doing something wrong but not sure what yet, always seems a different set of tracks available than I have. May try MP3 tag. Thanks anyway very clear instructions.
do we need to create an account before we can use the program to fix the tags? I tried to follow your video and it didn't work for me. When I click on scan to scan files without metadata, I don't get new information on the right hand side of MB Picard. (My internet connection works fine).
Hi - THANK YOU for this tutorial it was very helpful. My issue is the the tags to not seem to be writing. Nothing shows up in file explorer title, album, year.... It will show up under new tags, but not in explorer. I also opened them up in MP3Tag and they are black there also - any ideas? I do have write tags to files checked. Thanks in advance!
I am sorry. I do not understand your problem. If you follow all my steps in the video you can tag your music to be ordered on your phone, tablet etc... this is the point of the video.
Sir I am using MP3 Tag. There is a provision for inserting the name of the composer but there is no provision to put the name of the lyrics writer. Is it possible to create. Kindly advise. Regards.
NOTE: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY MUSIC TAGGING PROGRAMS Can someone please please PLEASE HELP ME OUT..... Why is it that when I back up my music files from iTunes to another drive some files lose their tag info? I have 8,800 songs and 1,500 of them lose Artist,Album & Genre When saving to another drive. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
They say it works on certain mac books but not all. This is one of the many reasons I don't own a mac, they are too restrictive with what you can do on them.
Here are similar mac products. Part 1. Music Tag Editor Part 2. Metabliss Part 3. Tag Editor for Mac Part 4. Meta Part 5. Music Tag Pro Part 6. Best Alternative to Music Tag Editor for Windows/Mac
I have mp3 tag on my Mac, which seems way easier to use. But I'm still running Mojave. If you are running Catalina you will not be able to use mp3tag. Very annoying, yes.
I've tried running this, but no tags get populated..... The only tag that shows up is "Length" and nothing else..... What could cause this, and how can I fix it? (This is for all files, not just certain albums or tracks.)
There is so much information you are not saying. What is your pc? what is your OS version? What do your music files look like, What info exists if any already. Are they Mp3, flac, wav etc...? Make a video of you trying to install and use the program and then I can help you.
All virus scanners (your one I have never heard of - so it is probably a scam to buy it) are now useless and no one needs to buy them, win 10 has its own. Anti-virus software now sells your data to companies - nothing is free, they are desperate for you to buy their rubbish. Believe what you will. Don't use it.
Why is it so complicated? 20 years ago in winamp I would literally just click a button and the entire album would auto scan and autofill all the tracks.
yes 20 years ago when there were hardly many bands or albums to choose from. It is harder because of trying to shift through the volume of work that is now available.
The Artist Nowadays Release song as Single, Then Put it in Album, Then A Deluxe Version of Album, The same song is Present in Movies OST Album, And After few Years The same song is in Best of (Artist Name), Anniversary additions like Recovery by Eminem is released again in 2020 Resulting in Multiple Albums, Album Arts and Metadata This confuses most of software resulting in lack of accuracy
HATE this muiscbrainz... so incredibly useless for doing the basics, editing tags! Seriously, select all files, there is no contextual menu, no editing panel, no field to change the album or artist names for all those files at once. SO BAD! EDITED: Just got MP3Tag... works perfectly, easy to understand, got the job done in seconds.
Thanks for the comment. I never thought of the zooming as being annoying. I did it because on too many videos you can never clearly see what the guy is doing or clicking on. I shall keep it in mind for future videos.
OMG thank you so much! I was having so many weird issues with my music tags, and I needed this so badly!!! So simply well explained. THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you for this video! I'm ditiching streaming for a variety of reasons and refreshing my self-hosted library. When I discovered that CDDB was no longer a real option, I fell down the Musicbrainz rabbit hole. Picard is rather daunting and none of the other videos really cover usage in any depth. I feel quite comfortable now thanks to your tutelage!
Wonderful!
Thanks! Picard ain't the most intuitive tool and your explanations saved me hours of re-ripping of albums.
You're very welcome!
Thanks a lot for your contribution! I really thank you for speaking slowly so no native english speakers can follow you easily. Great job!!!!!
This is an EXCELLENT tutorial. I just wish I found this a few weeks back. Been pulling what's left of my hair out. Thanks for this! :-)
I just downloaded the latest version of MusicBrainz Picard. Have they added the Genre function yet, or do I still need the plug-in above? Thanks!
what is the difference between example 1 and 2? All the steps were exactly the same... Also too much zooming in&out >.
why do we copy the music in the first step? Just to have a back-up if the files are not correctly converted? Is MusicBrainz Picard not always reliable?
Picard itself seems very reliable, but as for any app, there's always a risk - especially because the (User+App) system can be less reliable (e.g. when we have not read and understood or remembered our config settings and their implications). I also take time to label the copy as either SafeCopy or PlayCopy - so I don't forget and get them the wrong way round!
Also (of course) a separate backup of my collection to unconnected storage (e.g. external disks). Most professionals agree that media of any importance should be stored in at least three different storage items, never all connected at the same time and at least one of them at a separate physical location (different building/town).
Picard can be unreliable. You can if not careful completely destroy all of your tag information if you run it without a back up and recovering from that can be a complete nightmare.
So you copy your music and keep the back up at least until you're happy with the outcome of picard.
A lesson too... do not get complacent. Picard performed amazingly well over the ~1500 files of sent through it slowly in batches, so I loaded a larger set of tracks feeling confident, and in a few seconds I'd completely destroyed my tag information across several thousand tracks.
Thank you! I ripped my entire CD collection with Microsoft Media Player ( 15 GB) to mp3 format . I put every CD album into it's own subdirectory. My Sony music player gives the "dreaded “Unknown Artist: and “Track 1” for the first track in every album, the others seem fine... so far. None of the albums have the artwork. Anyway, your software solution looks like a fix to this. I am still going to try and program it because there may be a thousand or so CD subdirectories involved.
I just downloaded MusicBrainz Picard today. I have Windows version 2.5.6 running. Is that the latest? My version does NOT have the ribbon bar that you show in the View menu at 0:50
ribbon bar is windows 10 , see th-cam.com/video/gYy7jdJ5f78/w-d-xo.html
@@TeflDude I'm on Windows 10, see i.imgur.com/JVBSC6C.png
@@TeflDude wait a minute - are you in the MusicBrainz app or Windows 10 File Explorer? I'm thinking you are in File Explorer with some black skin added. The standard Windows 10 theme would have made this more intuitive about what you were doing.
What a fantastic video! I have been literally scratching my head how to work with this program, this will make life so much more bearable with all the music I would like to rip from my CDs.
Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
Tell me, I have the following problem: I have about 800 songs on my flash drive, my car player wants to play songs alphabetically, even if I put them in a folder in a mixed order. What information needs to be changed so that the car player does not play them alphabetically. Shuffle is not an option when the same songs are constantly playing.
I much appreciate the work you put into sharing this information. Saved me a lot of time and struggle!
Glad it helped!
Is there a version of picard musicbrainz for W7 32bit ?
This is what i've been looking for, Excellent explanation, and looks easy, will let you know how i get on, thanks for this tutorial.
i have some issues, in the past i was able to download songs from YT and the tags were present, recently i tried and most if not all of the songs i have downloaded have no tags, im loading the MP3 to musicbrainz and under uncluster there is a "no entry" symbol next to the song, i tried scanning but getting the "could not load album". i followed your video but alas, not getting it. :(
Your voice is really soothing
THanks, I am happy to audition for late night radio presenter
Just wondering. After you scan the files and they show up on the right. Why do some files show up highlighted pink/light red? Or is it nothing Important.
I never had that happen. Remember you can always modify the result by using MP3Tag, which I also made a video about.
@@TeflDude yes I am going thru everything now. I plan on using mp3tag aswell thank you
Very nice layout in the video. I am doing about 10K tracks at a time so I probably won't be looking at the alternative version details, etc. Also, don't have any idea what the purpose of clusters is, but I hope to update all the genres. Thanks again
i listen to chicano rap latin rap it wont work for me did everything u said i just want the numbers change name tags they dont have numbers labeled before the name of the song so its all mix matched everywhere any help on that?
Try my video on Mp3Tag, You have more control there.
One of the most detailed video for MusicBrain Picard...BIG THANK YOU!!!
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I'm new to MusicBrainz Picard and this is very useful. Regards from Chile.
Great tuto ! please another one about the of different way of having the FOLDER or FILE written. For ex folder : RAINBOW (down to earth) For ex file : Rainbow - down to earth - danger zone etc
hey man! tnx for the video
i have an issue with the software! i don't want software to put track number in the fixed name! Just the title i needed! what should i do ???
Use Mp3tag to do this. Go to my video... "How to add tags to mp3 audio files using mp3tag". - th-cam.com/video/XO5o9-vVTE4/w-d-xo.html - go to part "Convert tag to filename (20:57)" Highlight all tracks, and then click on "Convert Tag to Filename" (Alt+1). Then in the box Format string: BOX, type only - %title% - and press ok.
@@TeflDude Much appreciated 🙏🏻
Sorry, my English is not so good.
For those of us who create music in a digital audio workstation like Pro Tools or Logic and we download at a higher rate than 16bit/44.1kHz, like 24 bit/96kHz, are you able to do that with this software and if you have created your own cover and have it in jpg form, are you able to use it?
Sorry I do not know.
This is very well explained and I notice you're doing a few songs at a time...what if you have over 50,000 songs? Can picard handle this?
Yes, but there are so many albums with the same song they may not be in the Album you think it should be.
Is there any way to sort the music into folders based on genre?
I don't know. You need to look on a forum about that. This is instructional videos to make life easier - not harder.
Type %genre%/ somewhere in the file naming tab. The %genre% part sorts music by genre, and putting the backslash sorts it in to its own folder.
Thank you for showing How the function are working on the computer
Great video, but you should have put some tips on what to do if Lookup and Scan do not give any results, for instance, in indie music.
Noted
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but when I go to save files they highlight in red and don’t save...
Just go back and try all the steps I did, missing none out. Where you save them is also important.
Hi great video very help full can you tell me what cataloguing software you use as I'm new to this and was thinking of windows media player on windows 10 as i don't like iTunes thanks for any help you can give
How do I stop it from saving each of the songs under 2 folders?
Thanks.
make sure to watch from 4:06 and tick boxes - 'move files when saving' and 'delete empty directories'.
How do you save just the cover without rewriting all the tags?
use mp3tag - check out my video on it
@@TeflDude ya but that just saves 1 cover per album in batch form. I have an album from various artists and there are 100 different covers.
You cannot do track covers - only album covers. If you put all the tracks under 1 album name then that's how it works.
Clear and concise tutorial. Cheers pal
Great video, by any chance do you know how to automatically add lyrics onto the musicbrainz as a plugin?
Sorry, I do not know
This is just a bloody brilliant tutorial 🏆
Thank You Very Much For Being This Patient and Cover Most Of It... Thumbs Up
There wasn`t a plugins folder in the Win root directory?????
it's here ... C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\MusicBrainz\Picard\plugins
How do you put EP in the tags?
phones do not have separate file system for eps - just lable the album as an ep
Hi, i'm curious does this program recognize unknown songs via fingerprints?
I do not know what fingerprints are.
YES, it computes acoustic fingerprints of any music file you throw at it and finds the correct meta data, even if there are no metadata or file names at all to work with. It is in fact the software (and organization) that invented AcoustID, aka "fingerprinting".
Thank you for this clear, concise and well-done tutorial. Even your voice makes it a pleasure to follow this explanation. I see you're a TEFL teacher, so that really explains it all. I'm also a TEFL teacher, so I can relate to why clarity is of the utmost importance. Many thanks... :-)
Thanks for the comment, always nice to hear them.
@@TeflDude You're welcome. I've also watched a few of your other videos and they're of the same EXCELLENT quality. Thank you for the time & effort you put into these. Keep up the great work.
"even your voice makes it a pleasure to follow this explanation" I read it as Tell Guy first and thought it was a fitting name
Hi. When I use the tagger to find correct album it won’t allow me to save it ?
try dragging into program
Excellent tutorial, and your voice is so relaxing. Thanks for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm still struggling with some, the explanation seems perfect then when I try to do it it doesnt work lol. I must be doing something wrong but not sure what yet, always seems a different set of tracks available than I have. May try MP3 tag. Thanks anyway very clear instructions.
Yes, I use mp3tag when I do not get wanted results, check out my video on this.
Great video. Thanks for sharing all this information. It will definitely help with my music management
do we need to create an account before we can use the program to fix the tags? I tried to follow your video and it didn't work for me. When I click on scan to scan files without metadata, I don't get new information on the right hand side of MB Picard. (My internet connection works fine).
All I can say is try with another type of computer, or with a different collection.
Can musicbrainz renames files by track number?
not sure - but mp3tag can do this
Hi - THANK YOU for this tutorial it was very helpful. My issue is the the tags to not seem to be writing. Nothing shows up in file explorer title, album, year.... It will show up under new tags, but not in explorer. I also opened them up in MP3Tag and they are black there also - any ideas? I do have write tags to files checked. Thanks in advance!
I am sorry. I do not understand your problem. If you follow all my steps in the video you can tag your music to be ordered on your phone, tablet etc... this is the point of the video.
Sir I am using MP3 Tag. There is a provision for inserting the name of
the composer but there is no provision to put the name of the lyrics
writer. Is it possible to create. Kindly advise. Regards.
Not that I know of.
Zauważyłem, że uczysz się języka polskiego :) good for you! :) thanks for this tutorial! ;)
Thanks for the detailed flow!
Glad it was helpful!
NOTE: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY MUSIC TAGGING PROGRAMS
Can someone please please PLEASE HELP ME OUT..... Why is it that when I back up my music files from iTunes to another drive some files lose their tag info? I have 8,800 songs and 1,500 of them lose Artist,Album & Genre When saving to another drive. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
itunes is nightmare - i use imazing prog
This video was a huge help. Thank you!! I was wondering is there a way to get mp3tag on a Mac??
They say it works on certain mac books but not all. This is one of the many reasons I don't own a mac, they are too restrictive with what you can do on them.
Here are similar mac products.
Part 1. Music Tag Editor
Part 2. Metabliss
Part 3. Tag Editor for Mac
Part 4. Meta
Part 5. Music Tag Pro
Part 6. Best Alternative to Music Tag Editor for Windows/Mac
I have mp3 tag on my Mac, which seems way easier to use. But I'm still running Mojave. If you are running Catalina you will not be able to use mp3tag. Very annoying, yes.
I've tried running this, but no tags get populated..... The only tag that shows up is "Length" and nothing else..... What could cause this, and how can I fix it? (This is for all files, not just certain albums or tracks.)
There is so much information you are not saying. What is your pc? what is your OS version? What do your music files look like, What info exists if any already. Are they Mp3, flac, wav etc...? Make a video of you trying to install and use the program and then I can help you.
total virus scanner - online, says it has a win32 virus ?
All virus scanners (your one I have never heard of - so it is probably a scam to buy it) are now useless and no one needs to buy them, win 10 has its own. Anti-virus software now sells your data to companies - nothing is free, they are desperate for you to buy their rubbish. Believe what you will. Don't use it.
Thanks man, very well laid out tutorial. Excellent work!
Glad it helped!
Why is it so complicated? 20 years ago in winamp I would literally just click a button and the entire album would auto scan and autofill all the tracks.
yes 20 years ago when there were hardly many bands or albums to choose from. It is harder because of trying to shift through the volume of work that is now available.
The Artist Nowadays Release song as Single,
Then Put it in Album,
Then A Deluxe Version of Album,
The same song is Present in Movies OST Album,
And After few Years The same song is in Best of (Artist Name),
Anniversary additions like Recovery by Eminem is released again in 2020
Resulting in Multiple Albums, Album Arts and Metadata
This confuses most of software resulting in lack of accuracy
Thank you so much mate. Just what I have been looking for. Well explained and very easy to understand.
Great to hear!
Like the video great help I’m having trouble with various artists albums any chance of a video for those 👍
Yes, good idea, I remember fixing that problem, I will do a short video on that this weekend
Tefl Dude - Using tech to aid teaching many thanks I’ll look out for it 👍
Great tutorial. The Best actually . Thanks a lot.
The plugin for the Mac is a pain to install.
apple don't like free stuff
Well done Sir! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful. Thanks.
HATE this muiscbrainz... so incredibly useless for doing the basics, editing tags! Seriously, select all files, there is no contextual menu, no editing panel, no field to change the album or artist names for all those files at once. SO BAD! EDITED: Just got MP3Tag... works perfectly, easy to understand, got the job done in seconds.
I made a video on this too
Thanks for the great tutorial.
You’re an absolute legend :)
great tutorial, thank you so much!
Also, I was trying to think who your voice reminded me of and it's gotta be Bob Mortimer
Glad it was helpful!
@@emi_fisher Thanks, I actually like Bob, he's a great comedian
good tag editor insight
Thank you very much. i have solved all my unknown mp3 files.
Easy sub and thank you so muuuuuch!
Brilliant. Thank you.
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it was like being in a class lol
Thank you.
You're welcome!
thank you very much!!!!!!
Thanks man it really help me 👍👍
Extra !!
Tried to watch it, far too much zooming in and out, sorry, had to abandon it
Thanks for the comment. I never thought of the zooming as being annoying. I did it because on too many videos you can never clearly see what the guy is doing or clicking on. I shall keep it in mind for future videos.
@@TeflDude Don't listen he might have the wrong glasses on.... where are you teach English?
Hi . What if under the genre says unknown in Picard . what must i do then ?
you need to go to "look up in browser" icon and follow instructions from 33:43 in this video