MusicBrainzTagger

The MusicBrainz Taggers

The MusicBrainz tagger applications allow you to automatically look up the releases/tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags, Vorbis comment fields, etc.) to your files. The taggers also allow you to specify how and where to write cleanly tagged files to your hard drive. MusicBrainz supports two tagging applications currently:

• Picard Tagger
  

  • The new cross platform (Linux/Unix and Windows) release oriented tagger that supports the new acoustic fingerprinting standard (PUID), mp3, wav, vorbis, flac, mpc, mp4 and wma formats. Picard has excellent UNICODE support -- if you require non ISO-8859-1 tags in your files, use Picard!
    
    

• iEatBrainz!
  

  • Tagger for Mac OS X that integrates with your iTunes library. This uses the old acoustic fingerprinting standard (TRM) which is being phased out in favor of PUID.
    
    

3rd Party Taggers

• Magic MP3 Tagger
  

  • This is a Windows tagger for the MP3 file format that sponsors MusicBrainz. It uses a built-in excerpt of the MusicBrainz core data to speed up the identification process. This tagger has been optimized to automatically identify music files by using an advanced dynamic offline and online music identification algorithm. This includes consideration of different naming patterns and similarities, various artist albums, compilation discs, known common misspellings and more.
    
    

• Jaikoz Tag Editor
  

  • This cross platform tagger supports acoustic fingerprinting (PUID), meta-matching on a track by track basis, iTunes integration, full unicode support, lyrics and cover art matching. 30 fields can be automatically updated from MusicBrainz, and it supports most audio formats.

Deprecated Taggers

• Classic Tagger (a.k.a. MusicBrainz Tagger 0.10.5)
  

  • This is our classic tagger that supports the old acoustic fingerprinting standard (TRM), wav, mp3, flac and vorbis formats. This tagger is track oriented, has limited UNICODE support and runs on Windows only. It is no longer supported, and server features it depends on may be withdrawn.
    
    

Additionally, there is a tool which allows to add DiscIDs to releases (The tagger applications above support this feature as well).

• CdLookupTool MusicBrainz CD Lookup Tool
  

  • Designed to allow users the ability to lookup and contribute metadata for Audio CDs.

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