{"id":57019,"date":"2025-04-24T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=57019"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:37:35","slug":"musicbrainz-picard-metadados-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/musicbrainz-picard-metadados-mp3\/","title":{"rendered":"MusicBrainz Picard identifies songs from *.mp3 files and automatically fixes metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/musicbrainz-picard.avif\" alt=\"Picard icon\/logo.\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57021\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In my first attempt to switch from streaming to move back to listening to <code>*.mp3<\/code> files, one of the issues I encountered was organization: how to standardize the metadata of the songs?<\/p>\n<p>The solution I was familiar with at the time \u2014 manually editing each song \u2014 was impractical. Who has time for that?<\/p>\n<p>In my second (and this time, successful) attempt in 2024, I came across a free app that is almost too good to be true, <a href=\"https:\/\/picard.musicbrainz.org\/\">MusicBrainz Picard<\/a> (Linux, macOS, Windows).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Picard connects to the vast database of <a href=\"https:\/\/musicbrainz.org\">MusicBrainz<\/a> and identifies the songs you drag into the app. The accuracy is good, and in the rare cases where it fails, you can manually associate the file with the correct metadata entry.<\/p>\n<p>Just drag the files, click the <samp>Check<\/samp> button, and if everything looks good with the metadata, click the <samp>Save<\/samp> button to save the changes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57022\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/musicbrainz-picard-ui.avif\" alt=\"Picard app displaying the songs of an album by Chico Buarque with the corrected metadata.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57022\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot: Manual do Usu\u00e1rio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can also rename the music files based on the metadata and organize them on your disk.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not as convenient as streaming, but I found it practical enough to adopt this workflow into my routine. (After all, it\u2019s not like I get new albums every day\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first attempt to switch from streaming to move back to listening to *.mp3 files, one of the issues I encountered was organization: how to standardize the metadata of the songs? The solution I was familiar with at the time \u2014 manually editing each song \u2014 was impractical. Who has time for that? In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1848,1882],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57023,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019\/revisions\/57023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}