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Picard
MusicBrainz Picard is a free cross-platform tagging software for music or other audio files. It is able to tag a wide range of audio codecs flac among others.
Setup
Picard is available on the official website
and GitHub.
Additionally for some Linux distributions
it is available via a package often called picard.
Picard can also be virtualized and accessed over VNC or web browser. This can be setup via docker with the mikenye image.
Usage
This section addresses various features of picard.
File naming
To enable the file renaming on saving check Rename files when saving in the
preferences.
Alternatively the box under Options called Rename Files can be checked to produce the same
outcome.
Under Options you can Open file naming script editor to change the script.
The tags described used are based on the audio codec.
In this section it is assumed the standard
flac tags are used as described in this wiki.
Music
The following is a basic script for renaming music 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%), ,_)
Audiobooks
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))