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'''MusicBrainz Picard''' is named after Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the TV series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and is the official MusicBrainz tagging application.
'''MusicBrainz Picard''' is named after Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the TV series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and is MusicBrainz' official tagging application.


Picard is a cross-platform application written in Python that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and it is the successor of the now-deprecated MusicBrainz Classic Tagger. While the Classic Tagger used an approach that tagged individual songs/files at a time, Picard uses an album oriented approach, this allows it to utilize the MusicBrainz data as effectively as possible.
Picard is a cross-platform application written in Python that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and it is the successor of the now-deprecated MusicBrainz Classic Tagger. While the Classic Tagger used an approach that tagged individual songs/files at a time, Picard uses an album oriented approach, this allows it to utilize the MusicBrainz data as effectively as possible.

Picard supports the majority of audio file formats, can perform CD lookups and [[Disc ID|disc ID]] submission, and is capable of doing audio fingerprinting using [[PUID]]s. Additionally, there are several [[Picard Plugins|plugins]] available that extend Picard's features.


== Download ==
== Download ==

Revision as of 17:12, 28 December 2009

Products > Picard

MusicBrainz Picard is named after Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation and is MusicBrainz' official tagging application.

Picard is a cross-platform application written in Python that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and it is the successor of the now-deprecated MusicBrainz Classic Tagger. While the Classic Tagger used an approach that tagged individual songs/files at a time, Picard uses an album oriented approach, this allows it to utilize the MusicBrainz data as effectively as possible.

Picard supports the majority of audio file formats, can perform CD lookups and disc ID submission, and is capable of doing audio fingerprinting using PUIDs. Additionally, there are several plugins available that extend Picard's features.

Download

Windows installer

download.gif picard-setup-0.12.1.exe (7.9M)
(MD5: 7df26ac72c5f7a944b9823338822dcfd)

Source code tarball

download.gif picard-0.12.1.tar.gz (1.3M)
(MD5: cfe594d68924afbc0704888130295c85)

Documentation

Customization

Need further help?

If you have need help or have any questions about using Picard you can ask them on the users mailing list or forum. If you think you have found a bug, please report it on the bug tracker. In other cases you can contact us.

Development

Picard development has been the culmination of several different developers efforts and has been led by Lukáš Lalinský and Robert Kaye.

If you are interesting in providing development assistance contact us by either posting on the developers mailing list or joining the #musicbrainz IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

License

Picard is licensed under the GPL 2.0 or later.