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This pages answers FrequentlyAskedQuestions about Picard.

How do I use Picard?

See:

• How To Tag Files With Picard
• Picard Documentation

File Formats

What formats does Picard support?

MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP4, Musepack, WavPack, Speex, The True Audio and Windows Media Audio. However, it can calculate audio fingerprints only from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Musepack files.

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.

Configuration

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' &"