MusicBrainz Picard

Picard the Next Generation MusicBrainz Tagger

The PicardTagger is the next generation MusicBrainzTagger. This version of the tagging application is album oriented, as opposed to track oriented as the old tagger was. This new application is also cross platform, which means the same code runs on Windows and on Linux. Before too long we will add Mac OS X support as well. The PicardTagger will implement most of the PicardTaggerImprovements. See also the project page https://musicbrainz.helixcommunity.org/ for more details on Picard.

Download Picard

Latest Release - 0.6.0

• Linux tarball picard-0.6.0.tar.gz 235Kb
• Windows installer picard-setup-0.6.0.exe 4.8Mb

Latest BETA Release - 0.7.0

• PicardWithAcousticFingerprinting

Twice Daily CVS Snapshots

• http://musicbrainz.org/~dave/picard-snapshots/

If you're building Picard from source, make sure you have libmusicbrainz 2.1.1 and libtunepimp 0.4.2.

Status of Picard using Debian Packages

There is no .deb package for Picard, and until the tunepimp packages are up-to-date, there won't be much point in one, so you will need to download the latest release or a CVS version.

Debian has many of the dependencies for Picard already packaged, however, you must be careful which versions you are using. The Debian packages tend to be rather old and can cause problems.

As of 2006-01-13, you can use python-wxgtk2.6 and python2.3-ctypes from testing or later and libmusicbrainz4c2a and python2.3-musicbrainz from unstable.

You still need to compile all tunepimp dependencies by hand, if you use libtunepimp and python-tunepimp from Debian, you will get the error AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'eUTF8'! In order to compile tunepimp, you will need libmusicbrainz4-dev from unstable.

ALT Linux packages

Mikhail Yakshin aka GreyCat has compiled all ~10 packages that were needed by Picard and Picard itself into ALT Linux Sisyphus repository, so all ALT Linux users can now instantly run Picard after simple "apt-get install picard". His package can be downloaded from http://sisyphus.ru/srpm/picard

Picard Documentation

There is an illustrated page describing HowToTagFilesWithPicard. For more information see the PicardTaggerDocumentation.

Running Picard on Linux

On Linux, make sure to set your BROWSER environment variable to point to your browser. Mine looks like:

BROWSER="firefox '%s' &" 

If your application freezes when the browser is active, make sure you have the & at the end of the BROWSER variable. If your browser takes you to a wrong page, make sure you have single quotes around your %s (e.g. '%s' )

Bugs, Feedback, Mailing List

Please read this entire page and the PicardTaggerDocumentation before reporting bugs or problems!

To submit bugs/feature requests go here:

• Bugs: report new

• Please make sure you checked the list of existing bug reports before entering a new one.

• Enhancements: new RFE
• Mailing list: subscribe archives

Note that many things are not working, yet, and an IntuitivePicardInterface is still being developed. See the PicardTaggerDocumentation for more details.