Picard - free and open source audio tag editor

Picard – free and open source cross-platform music tagger/audio tag editor that helps in identifying and organizing the digital audio

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Supported format:

MPEG-1 Audio (.mp3, .mp2, .m2a),
MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p, .m4v, .mp4),
Windows Media Audio (.wma, .wmv, .asf),
Microsoft WAVE (.wav),
The True Audio (.tta),
FLAC (.flac),
Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff, .aif, .aifc),
Musepack (.mpc, .mp+),
WavPack (.wv),
OptimFROG (.ofr, .ofs),
Monkey’s Audio (.ape),
Tom’s lossless Audio Kompressor (.tak),
Speex (.spx),
Ogg FLAC (.oggflac), Ogg Theora (.ogg), Ogg Opus (.opus), Ogg Audio (.oga), Ogg Video (.ogv), Ogg Video (.ogv),
ADTS stream / AAC (.aac),
AC-3 (.ac3, .eac3).

Picard uses AcoustID audio fingerprints, allowing files to be identified by the actual music, even if they have no metadata;
You can import tags from the MusicBrainz online service;
Support for working with CD;
Support for plugins that significantly expand tag editing capabilities;
Usecover art using plugins from Amazon, fanart.tv, TheAudioDB;
Manual lookup. If you want granular control over how your files are being tagged, or the above methods provided inaccurate results (or no results), the alternative is to manually lookup and choose the correct release(s) for your files;

Support for extensive drag and drop functions. Some of these operations:

Drag a file from the file browser to an album track;
Drag a file from the file browser to an album — this attempts to match the file to the album automatically;
Drag a directory from the file browser to an album — this attempts to match all the files from the dir to the album;
Drag one album onto another to match all the files from one to the other;
Drag unmatched files from an album onto another album or back to unmatched files.

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Installation

The software Picard is available for installation on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Installation method	OS
PPA	Ubuntu* 16.04/18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint 18/19, Debian
Deb	Ubuntu* 16.04/18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint 18/19, Debian
RPM	openSUSE, Rosa Linux, Mageia, ALT Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and others
GNOME/KDE Software Center	Ubuntu* 16.04/18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint 18/19, Debian
Snap	Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Flatpak	Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
EXE	Windows
DMG	macOS

*Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE)

Install Software via PPA repository

Stable version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:musicbrainz-developers/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install picard

Unstable version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:musicbrainz-developers/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install picard

Install Software via Deb package

Download deb package

Install Software via RPM package

Download RPM package

Install Software on Discover Software Center

Open Discover Software Center and use the search bar to enter Picard, click on the “Install” button, enter the password, and the installation process has started.

Install Software on GNOME Software Center

Open GNOME Software Center and use the search bar to enter Picard, click on the “Install” button, enter the password, and the installation process has started.

Install Software via Snap package

sudo snap install picard

Install Software via Flatpak package

flatpak install flathub org.musicbrainz.Picard

Install Software via EXE package on Windows

Download EXE package

Install Software via DMG package for macOS

Download DMG package

Software Information

Language Interface:	English, Russian, Deutsch, Spanish, French and others
Description version:	1.4.2
Developer:	Team MusicBrainz
Programming language:	Python
License:	GPL v2
Software website:	picard.musicbrainz.org

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