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===What formats does Picard support?=== |
===What formats does Picard support?=== |
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MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP4, Musepack, WavPack, Speex, The True Audio and Windows Media Audio. |
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP4, Musepack, WavPack, Speex, The True Audio and Windows Media Audio. WAVs cannot be tagged due to the lack of a standard for doing so; but can be fingerprinted and renamed. |
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===What formats ''will'' Picard support?=== |
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Picard is intended to eventually support all formats (including fingerprinting), but this is a complex process, and will take some time. |
Picard is intended to eventually support all formats (including fingerprinting), but this is a complex process, and will take some time. |
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===Which tags can Picard write to my files?=== |
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See [[Picard Tags|PicardTags]] for information on which [[MusicBrainz]] fields get written to tags by Picard. |
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==Configuration== |
==Configuration== |
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===I tagged a file in Picard, but iTunes is not seeing the tags!=== |
===I tagged a file in Picard, but iTunes is not seeing the tags!=== |
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Firstly, you need to force iTunes to re-read the information from your tags and update its library. This is discussed in the [[i Tunes Guide|iTunesGuide]]. |
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**Comment: If you are using iTunes on Windows XP, you might want to try selecting the songs, pressing CTRL+I, and then when the box comes up, just click OK. It seems to re-read the tags and then make it visible. Not sure why. |
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===How do I tell Picard which browser to use?=== |
===How do I tell Picard which browser to use?=== |
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===Why won't Picard open .mp3 files in Ubuntu?=== |
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After installing Picard, .mp3 files are |
After installing Picard, .mp3 files are greyed out, while .ogg files are able to be processed. To resolve this, "libtunepimp" is needed for mp3 support. From the command line: <pre>sudo apt-get install libtunepimp5-mp3 |
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Revision as of 03:00, 30 July 2008
Products > Picard > Picard FAQ
This pages answers FrequentlyAskedQuestions about Picard.
How do I use Picard?
See:
File Formats
What formats does Picard support?
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP4, Musepack, WavPack, Speex, The True Audio and Windows Media Audio. WAVs cannot be tagged due to the lack of a standard for doing so; but can be fingerprinted and renamed.
What formats will Picard support?
Picard is intended to eventually support all formats (including fingerprinting), but this is a complex process, and will take some time.
Which tags can Picard write to my files?
See PicardTags for information on which MusicBrainz fields get written to tags by Picard.
Configuration
I tagged a file in Picard, but iTunes is not seeing the tags!
Firstly, you need to force iTunes to re-read the information from your tags and update its library. This is discussed in the iTunesGuide.
Additionally, iTunes has a known bug in it's ID3v2.4 implementation, which makes it unable to read such tags if they contain also embedded cover art. As a work-around, you can configure Picard to write ID3v2.3 tags.
How do I tell Picard which browser to use?
On Windows, GNOME and KDE, Picard uses the standard browser for these systems. On other systems, you can use the BROWSER environment variable. For example:
export BROWSER="firefox '%s' &"
Why won't Picard open .mp3 files in Ubuntu?
After installing Picard, .mp3 files are greyed out, while .ogg files are able to be processed. To resolve this, "libtunepimp" is needed for mp3 support. From the command line:
sudo apt-get install libtunepimp5-mp3
