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Picard

MusicBrainz Picard is a free cross-platform tagging software for music.

File naming

To enable the file renaming on saving check Rename files when saving in the preferences

Under Options you can Open file naming script editor to change the script.

The following is a basic script for renaming files to the scheme [<discnumber>.]<tracknumber>._<artist>_-_<title> all in lower case. discnumber is only added, when the total disc count is greater than 1. Both discnumber and tracknumber are padded according to the number of total discs and tracks. The tracknumber is padded to at least 2 places.

$replace($lower(
$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),$num(%discnumber%,$len(%totaldiscs%)).,)
$num(%tracknumber%,$if($gt($len(%totaltracks%),2),$len(%totaltracks%),2))._
%artist%_-_
%title%), ,_)

Another Script is mainly used for audiobooks, where the title is not part of the filename to avoid confusion. The files are renamed with the scheme [<discnumber>.]<tracknumber>._<artist>_-_<album>_<tracknumber> all in lower case. Both discnumber and tracknumber are handled in the same way as in the previous script.

$replace($lower(
$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),$num(%discnumber%,$len(%totaldiscs%)).,)
$num(%tracknumber%,$if($gt($len(%totaltracks%),2),$len(%totaltracks%),2))._
%artist%_-_
%album%), ,_)_
$num(%tracknumber%,$if($gt($len(%totaltracks%),2),$len(%totaltracks%),2))

Tagging

The following explains the most general tags in short. These are the recommended tags, that are in part used by the script for renaming the files.

• title is the name of the music piece.
• artist is the artist of the song - for classical music it is the composer.
• album is the name of the album.
• tracknumber is the number of the music piece in the album
• date is the year of publication
• albumartist is the artist that made the album
• discnumber is the disc number of the music piece in the album
• genre is the genre of the music piece
• totaldiscs is the amount of discs of the album
• totaltracks is the amount of tracks in the disc of the music piece
• front is an image of the front cover
• performer is only used in classical music and defines the artist that played the piece.