MusicBrainz Picard

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MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger.

Picard supports the majority of audio file formats, is capable of using audio fingerprints (PUIDs), performing CD lookups and disc ID submissions, and it has excellent Unicode support. Additionally, there are several plugins available that extend Picard's features.

When tagging files Picard uses an album oriented approach, this approach allows it to utilize the MusicBrainz data as effectively as possible and correctly tag your music. For more information see the illustrated quick start guide to tagging.

Picard is named after Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Download

Windows installer

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

Source code tarball

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

Documentation

• Illustrated quick start guide to tagging
• Picard screencasts
• Picard tags
• Picard FAQ

Customization

• Picard plugins
• Picard scripting

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 led by Lukáš Lalinský and Philipp Wolfer with efforts put in by several other developers.

As of late 2009, Picard development has been put temporarily on hold while the MusicBrainz development team works towards its next major server release. A new version of Picard is expected to come out with that server release.

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.