
If you scan from a clustered group, it will try to find an album that also has the other files in it. It's more precise and more effective to find a lone file out of context, but it often returns a bit of anything in terms of album, since a single track can appear in a lot of different albums. The "Scan" feature attempts to match files by their fingerprint ID. The "Lookup" feature attempts to match files buy their existing tags, file size, position etc. This feature is very powerful, I wish it would work with Discogs too. You can browse manually MusicBrainz in any way you want, and then once you found an album, you can click the TAG link to have Picard display all the information on the right column, ready for a drag and drop match.
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You can drag and drop any file from the left side into an album on the right and the software will attempt to match the dragged files to it Scanning attempts to look at your files and find a matching album to add on the right side If you see a music icon, it's not a file, it's an unmatched track Each track is shown with a little music icon. The right side column shows albums from the musicBrainz web site.


So far I have tagged 6700 files in a few days. It's not THAT intuitive and it took me a while to use it properly, so I thought I'd help along the next person who'd like to mass tag their file and benefit from my learnings. I thought I'd give back to the community and share with you my learning curve for the software that made it for me: MusicBtainz Picard. Hi Everyone! So since I last wrote in this community last month, I have used your wise advises and succeeded in properly tagging and getting art cover for a huge amount of files.
