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

Stable version

Note: to tag multi-disc releases properly with disc numbers, try the 0.15beta version below instead.

MusicBrainz Picard for Windows
Download: picard-setup-0.14.exe
Size: 9.0M installer
Version: 0.14
MD5: 304acb129cfd6961327fc884d32cba12

MusicBrainz Picard for Mac OS X 10.4+
Download: MusicBrainz-Picard-0.14.dmg
Size: 15.0MB intel only binary
Version: 0.14.0
MD5: 53f5d9bbf8f7eab6cc6c781925ffa6da

MusicBrainz Picard for Mac OS X 10.4+
Download: MusicBrainz Picard UB.dmg
Size: 49MB universal binary
Version: 0.11
MD5: 138c98757d365241c76259ad6e0e1c7f

MusicBrainz Picard source code
Download: picard-0.14.tar.gz
Size: 1.4M tarball
Version: 0.14
MD5: bbc6aee61e779153b77e381e8cd2ba08

Beta version

MusicBrainz Picard for Windows (BETA)
Download: picard-setup-0.15.0beta2.exe
Size: 9.0M installer
Version: 0.15beta2
MD5: 55621edbca9f0af0fa4302097e7c238e

MusicBrainz Picard for Mac OS X 10.4+ (BETA)
Download: MusicBrainz-Picard-0.15beta2.dmg
Size: 15.0MB intel only binary
Version: 0.15beta2
MD5: eb7a345e36319c8539e52688b2e13d1d

MusicBrainz Picard source code (BETA)
Download: picard-0.15beta2.tar.gz
Size: 1.4M tarball
Version: 0.15beta2
MD5: 1f522d51ca9e246a669042f279b884f9

For Windows users: If you get an error about being unable to run the program, install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86).

For Linux users: Picard is also available in many distributions' software repositories. (Using Fedora? See the FAQ.)

For earlier releases of Picard, browse the FTP server.

Documentation


Customization:

Need further help?

If you need help or have any questions about using Picard, you can turn to the users mailing list or the 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. See the change log for details.

The source code of Picard is maintained in Bazaar, the main development branch is hosted on Launchpad, and you can get the source code with all its history using:

bzr branch lp:picard

If you are interested 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.