The first step you need to take is to cluster your music together. Clustering is an important concept in Picard. As mentioned previously, Picard sorts music with an album-oriented approach, so when you cluster music, it will do that clustering all the individual songs by album. To get started, select all of the files under Unmatched Files in the left pane (shortcut: CTRL+A) and press the Cluster button. Your music will immediately be sorted by albums.Īfter clustering your library, your window will look something like this. Two ways to sort your music are either by the lookup method or the scanning method. The lookup method will check the existing metadata saved to the song file and compare that to the MusicBrainz database. This is usually a foolproof way to find data for a song. The scanning method will use an acoustic “fingerprint” of the song based on wavelengths and other miscellaneous sound-oriented factors of the song. It will compare the fingerprint to the existing MusicBrainz database for a match. This is the most accurate method to use, but it will not work out of the box in Fedora. There is an easy workaround to get scanning to work, however. Once you begin looking up or scanning your music, it will move from the left pane over to the right pane. Music in the right pane will be categorized by the albums found in the MusicBrainz database. All of the music will be filled with the metadata tags found online. When you click on a specific song or album, the information Picard found will be displayed in the bottom pane. It’s important to note that the information shown is only what Picard matched your music file with. It is not actually saved to your music files yet. This can be useful in case the match was incorrect or some information is incorrect. It is a good idea to give a quick glance over the info for each album to make sure everything is correct before saving it to the file. Once it’s saved, it’s irreversible, except for manually changing it back. Once you’re sure the match was correct, you can save the metadata to the file. Your music is now categorized and the metadata is present in the file! Where does Picard find metadata from? Highlight all of the files you wish to save the metadata for and click the Save button.
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