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Abbreviate Artist-Sort and Album-Artist-Sort Tags. e.g. "Vivaldi, Antonio" becomes "Vivaldi, A." This is particularly useful for classical albums that can have a long list of artists. %artistsort% is abbreviated into %_artistsort_abbrev% and %albumartistsort% is abbreviated into %_albumartistsort_abbrev%.

Tag files with tags from the AcousticBrainz database, all highlevel classifiers and tonal/rhythm data.

By default, only simple mood and genre information is saved, but the plugin can be configured to include all highlevel data.

Based on code from Andrew Cook, Sambhav Kothari

WARNING: Experimental plugin. All guarantees voided by use.

Add's the following tags:

• Key (in ID3v2.3 format)
• Beats Per Minute (BPM)

from the AcousticBrainz database.

This plugin is deprecated, please consider using the AcousticBrainz Tags plugin instead.

Adds a plugin context menu option to clusters and single files to help you quickly add them as releases or standalone recordings to the MusicBrainz database via the website by pre-populating artists, track names and times.

Adds any saved release to one of your user collections

This plugin provides specialized album and track variables with artist details for use in tagging and naming scripts. Note that this creates additional calls to the MusicBrainz API for the artist and area information, and this will slow down processing. This will be particularly noticable when there are many different album or track artists, such as on a [Various Artists] release. There is an option to disable track artist processing, which can significantly increase the processing speed if you are only interested in album artist details.

Please see the user guide on GitHub for more information.

This plugin provides specialized album and track variables for use in naming scripts. It is based on the "Album Artist Extension" plugin, but expands the functionality to also include track artists. Note that it cannot be used as a direct drop-in replacement for the "Album Artist Extension" plugin because the variables are provided with different names. This will require changes to existing scripts if switching to this plugin.

Please see the user guide on GitHub for more information.

Add's the album artist(s) Official Homepage(s) (if they are defined in the MusicBrainz database).

This plugin provides standardized, credited and sorted artist information for the album artist. This is useful when your tagging or renaming scripts require both the standardized artist name and the credited artist name, or more detailed information about the album artists.

The information is provided in the following variables:

• _aaeStdAlbumArtists = The standardized version of the album artists.
• _aaeCredAlbumArtists = The credited version of the album artists.
• _aaeSortAlbumArtists = The sorted version of the album artists.
• _aaeStdPrimaryAlbumArtist = The standardized version of the first (primary) album artist.
• _aaeCredPrimaryAlbumArtist = The credited version of the first (primary) album artist.
• _aaeSortPrimaryAlbumArtist = The sorted version of the first (primary) album artist.
• _aaeAlbumArtistCount = The number of artists comprising the album artist.

PLEASE NOTE: Once the plugin is installed, it automatically makes these variables available to File Naming Scripts and other scripts in Picard. Like other variables, you must mention them in a script for them to affect the file name or other data.

This plugin is no longer being maintained. Consider switching to the Additional Artists Variables plugin, which fills this role, and also includes additional variables. That other plugin uses different names for the album artist names provided here, so you if you switch plugins, you will need to update your scripts with the different names.

Version 0.6.1 of this plugin functions identically to Version 0.6. Only this description (and the version number) has changed.

Use cover art from Amazon.

Calculate BPM for selected files and albums. Linux only version with dependancy on Aubio and Numpy

Moves disc numbers and subtitles from the separate tags to album titles.

Classical Extras provides tagging enhancements for Picard and, in particular, utilises MusicBrainz’s hierarchy of works to provide work/movement tags. All options are set through a user interface in Picard options->plugins. This interface provides separate sections to enhance artist/performer tags, works and parts, genres and also allows for a generalised "tag mapping" (simple scripting). While it is designed to cater for the complexities of classical music tagging, it may also be useful for other music which has more than just basic song/artist/album data.

The options screen provides five tabs for users to control the tags produced:

1. Artists: Options as to whether artist tags will contain standard MB names, aliases or as-credited names. Ability to include and annotate names for specialist roles (chorus master, arranger, lyricist etc.). Ability to read lyrics tags on the file which has been loaded and assign them to track and album levels if required. (Note: Picard will not normally process incoming file tags).

2. Works and parts: The plugin will build a hierarchy of works and parts (e.g. Work -> Part -> Movement or Opera -> Act -> Number) based on the works in MusicBrainz's database. These can then be displayed in tags in a variety of ways according to user preferences. Furthermore partial recordings, medleys, arrangements and collections of works are all handled according to user choices. There is a processing overhead for this at present because MusicBrainz limits look-ups to one per second.

3. Genres etc.: Options are available to customise the source and display of information relating to genres, instruments, keys, work dates and periods. Additional capabilities are provided for users of Muso (or others who provide the relevant XML files) to use pre-existing databases of classical genres, classical composers and classical periods.

4. Tag mapping: in some ways, this is a simple substitute for some of Picard's scripting capability. The main advantage is that the plugin will remember what tag mapping you use for each release (or even track).

5. Advanced: Various options to control the detailed processing of the above.

All user options can be saved on a per-album (or even per-track) basis so that tweaks can be used to deal with inconsistencies in the MusicBrainz data (e.g. include English titles from the track listing where the MusicBrainz works are in the composer's language and/or script). Also existing file tags can be processed (not possible in native Picard).

See the readme file on GitHub here for full details.

Adds a context menu shortcut to collect all track artists from a release and format them as the releases album artist.

This plugin improves the compatibility of ID3 tags by using only a single value for TXXX frames. Multiple value TXXX frames technically don't comply with the ID3 specification.

Exports a cluster's tracks to the clipboard, so it can be copied into the tracklist field on MusicBrainz

Uses Critiquebrainz for comment as review or rating.

WARNING: Experimental plugin. All guarantees voided by use.

Example: Taylor Swift Release: Midnights https://musicbrainz.org/release/e348fdd6-f73b-47fe-94c4-670bfee26a39 , https://critiquebrainz.org/release-group/0dcc84fb-c592-46e9-ba92-a52bb44dd553

Recording: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/93113326-93e9-409c-a3d6-5ec91864ba30 , https://critiquebrainz.org/recording/93113326-93e9-409c-a3d6-5ec91864ba30

Add a $decade(date) function to get the decade from a year. E.g. $decade(1994-04-05) will give "90s". By default decades between 1920 and 2000 will be shortened to two digits. You can disable this with setting the second parameter to 0, e.g. $decade(1994,0) will give "1990s".

This plugin helps you quickly convert mis-encoded cyrillic Windows-1251 tags to proper UTF-8 encoded strings. If your track/album names look something like "Àëèñà â ñò›àíå ÷óäåñ", run this plugin from the context menu before running the "Lookup" or "Scan" tools

This plugin helps you quickly convert mis-encoded Greek Windows-1253 tags to proper UTF-8 encoded strings. If your track/album names look something like "Àëèñà â ñò›àíå ÷óäåñ", run this plugin from the context menu before running the "Lookup" or "Scan" tools

Fetch cover arts from Deezer

Moves disc numbers and subtitles from album titles to separate tags. For example:
"Aerial (disc 1: A Sea of Honey)"

• album = "Aerial"
• discnumber = "1"
• discsubtitle = "A Sea of Honey"

This plugin sets the albumsort and titlesort tags. It also provides the script functions $swapprefix_lang, $delprefix_lang and $title_lang. The languages included at the moment are English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese.

The functions do the same thing as their original counterparts, but take multiple languages as parameters. If no languages are provided, all the available ones are included. Languages are provided with ISO 639-3 codes: eng, spa, ita, fra, deu, por.

Tagging and checking aliases can be disabled in the plugin's options page, found under "plugins". Checking aliases will slow down processing.

If you wish to add your own language or to change the words that are not capitalized, please feel free to code the changes and submit a pull request along with links to web pages that give definitive language-specific title-case rules.

Use cover art from fanart.tv.

To use this plugin you have to register a personal API key on fanart.tv.

Move "feat." from artist names to album and track titles. Match is case insensitive.

Removes feat. artists from track titles. Substitution is case insensitive.

Fix the track numbers in a cluster by either using the track titles (1) or sequential order (2).

1. The title should contain something like "#-#" (number dash number) and be unique.
   All non-numbers and non-dashes will be removed when comparing the titles.
   This is especially useful for Language Audio Lessons, like this:

   - Title: "Unit 1 - Lesson 10"

   For example, take the following titles and track numbers:

   - Title: "Unit 1 - Lesson 1"  - Track #1
   - Title: "Unit 1 - Lesson 2"  - Track #1
   - Title: "Unit 2 - Lesson 10" - Track #2
   - Title: "Unit 2 - Lesson 1"  - Track #2
   

   The track numbers will be changed to: 1, 2, 4, 3
   The 3rd one will be changed to Track #4 because Lesson 1 < Lesson 10.
   The titles will remain unchanged.
2. The track numbers will be set based on the sequential order they appear within the cluster.

How to use:

1. Cluster a group of files
2. Right click on the cluster
3. Then click one:
   • Plugins => Fix track numbers using titles
   • Plugins => Fix track numbers using sequence

This plugin provides options with respect to the formatting of performer tags. It has been developed using the 'Standardise Performers' plugin by Sophist as the basis for retrieving and processing the performer data for each of the tracks. The format of the resulting tags can be customized in the option settings page.

Generate cuesheet (.cue file) from an album.

Generate an Extended M3U playlist (.m3u8 file, UTF8 encoded text). Relative pathnames are used where audio files are in the same directory as the playlist, otherwise absolute (full) pathnames are used.

This plugin provides the ability to standardize genres in the "genre" tag by matching the genres as found to a standard genre as defined in the genre replacement mapping configuration option. Once installed a settings page will be added to Picard's options, which is where the plugin is configured.

Please see the user guide on GitHub for more information.

Save and load metadata to/from Haiku BFS attributes.

Replaces unicode character HYPHEN (U+2010) [0xE2 0x80 0x90] with typographically identical HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D) [0x2D] for fonts that do not support HYPHEN and to prevent visually duplicate filenames differentiated only by their hyphens.

Unicode duplicated hyphen from ASCII as an unambiguous way to designate a hyphen from a minus whilst still being typographically indentical. Since text processing on music tags is rare so choice is purely pedantic esepcially as keyboards only have HYPHEN-MINUS.

Replaces character on "album", "title", "artist", "artists", "artistsort", "albumartist", "albumartists" and "albumartistsort" tags.

Adds a multi-valued tag (~instruments) containing all the instruments (including vocals), for use in scripts.

Adds a $keep() function to delete all tags except the ones that you want. Tags beginning with musicbrainz_ are kept automatically, as are tags beginning with _.

To keep all tags that can have a description (like comment, lyricsandperformer), add<tagname without description>(not including:`) to the list of tags to keep.

Adds functions to convert between 'standard', 'camelot', 'open key' and 'traktor' key formats.

Use tags from Last.fm as genre.

Allows loading selected tracks as non-album tracks. Useful for tagging single tracks where you do not care about the album.

Support for loading and renaming various tracker module formats (.mod, .xm, .it, .mptm, .ahx, .mtm, .med, .s3m, .ult, .699, .okt). There is limited support for writing the title tag as track name for some formats.

Calculate Moodbars for selected files and albums.

According to WikiPedia a "Moodbar is a computer visualization used for navigating within a piece of music or any other recording on a digital audio track. This is done with a commonly horizontal bar that is divided into vertical stripes. Each stripe has a colour combination showing the "mood" within a short part of the audio track."

To use this plugin you will need to download special executables to create the moodbars - at the time of writing, executables are only available for various Linux distributions (see the Amarok Moodbar page for details).

Fetch first 30% of lyrics from Musixmatch

Do not store specific release information in releases of unknown origin.

Replaces accented and otherwise non-ASCII characters with a somewhat equivalent version of their ASCII counterparts. This allows old devices to be able to display song artists and titles somewhat correctly, instead of displaying weird or blank symbols. It's an attempt to do a little better than Musicbrainz's native "Replace non-ASCII characters" option.

Currently replaces characters on "album", "albumartist", "albumartists", "albumartistsort", "albumsort", "artist", "artists", "artistsort" and "title" tags.

Adds padded disc- and tracknumbers so the length of all disc- and tracknumbers is the same. They are stored in the _paddedtracknumber and _paddeddiscnumber tags.

Create a paper CD case from an album or cluster using http://papercdcase.com

This plugin provides the ability to store and retrieve script variables that persist across tracks and albums. This allows things like finding and storing the earliest recording date of all of the tracks on an album.

There are two types of persistent variables maintained - album variables and session variables. Album variables persist across all tracks on an album. Each album's information is stored separately, and is reset when the album is refreshed. The information is cleared when an album is removed. Session variables persist across all albums and tracks, and are cleared when Picard is shut down or restarted.

This plugin adds eight new scripting functions to allow management of persistent script variables:

• $set_a(name,value) : Sets the album persistent variable name to value.
• $unset_a(name) : Unsets the album persistent variable name.
• $get_a(name) : Gets the album persistent variable name.
• $clear_a() : Clears all album persistent variables.
• $set_s(name,value) : Sets the session persistent variable name to value.
• $unset_s(name) : Unsets the session persistent variable name.
• $get_s(name) : Gets the session persistent variable name.
• $clear_s() : Clears all session persistent variables.

Please see the user guide on GitHub for more information.

This plugin lets you set up actions that run with a context menu click. An action consists in a command line executed for each album or each track along with a few options to tweak the behaviour. This can be used to run external programs and pass some variables to it.

Split mediums and re-order sides to match side order rather than medium order. E.g., if a release has two mediums with track numbers A1, A2, ..., D1, D2, ... and B1, B2, ..., C1, C2, ..., this plugin will split the release into four mediums and reorder the new mediums so that the track numbers are A1, A2, ..., B1, B2, ..., C1, C2, ..., D1, D2, ...

This is primarily intended to make vinyl records designed for record changers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_changer#Automatic_sequencing) play in the correct order.

Add functions to aggregate tags on a release:

• $album_all(name)
• ‎$album_avg(name, precision=2)
• ‎$album_max(name, precision=2)
• ‎$album_min(name, precision=2)
• ‎$album_mode(name)
• ‎$album_distinct(name, separator=; )
• ‎$album_multi_avg(name, precision=2)
• ‎$album_multi_max(name, precision=2)
• ‎$album_multi_min(name, precision=2)
• ‎$album_multi_mode(name)
• ‎$album_multi_distinct(name, separator=; )

Appends information to EPs and Singles

Remove all perfectly matched albums from the selection.

Replaces Windows forbidden symbols: :, /, *, ?, ", ., | etc. with a similar UNICODE version. Currently replaces characters on "album", "artist", "title", "albumartist", "releasetype", "label" tags. Also add $replace_forbidden() function for Tagger. Example: $set(composer,$script_forbidden(%composer%))

Calculates ReplayGain information for tracks and albums according to the ReplayGain 2.0 specification. This plugin depends on the ReplayGain utility rsgain. Users are required to install rsgain and set its path in the plugin settings before use.

Usage

Select one or more tracks or albums, then right click and select Plugin->Calculate ReplayGain. The plugin will calculate ReplayGain information for the selected items and display the results in the metadata window. Click the save button to write the tags to file.

The following file formats are supported:

• MP3 (.mp3)
• FLAC (.flac)
• Ogg (.ogg, .oga, spx)
• Opus (.opus)
• MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a, .mp4)
• Wavpack (.wv)
• Monkey's Audio (.ape)
• WMA (.wma)
• MP2 (.mp2)
• WAV (.wav)
• AIFF (.aiff)
• TAK (.tak)
• MusePack (Stream Version 8 only) (.mpc)

This plugin is based on the original ReplayGain plugin by Philipp Wolfer and Sophist.

This plugin adds a context menu action to save files and rewrite their header.

This plugin provides a new script function $logline() to write entries to Picard's system log. By default, the log level is set at Info, but any level can be used by providing the level as an optional second parameter to the function.

The function is used as:

$logline(text[,level])

where text is the text to write to the log. The entry will be written at log level Info by default, but this can be changed by specifying a different level as an optional second parameter. Allowable log levels are:

• E (Error)
• W (Warning)
• I (Info)
• D (Debug)

If an unknown level is entered, the function will use the default Info level.

Adds a right click option on a cluster to look up album information using a search engine in a browser window.

Adds a right click option on an album or track to look up cover art for the selected album or title.

Capitalize First Character In Every Word Of Album/Track Title/Artist.
Leaves words containing embedded uppercase as-is i.e. USA or DoA.
For Artist/AlbumArtist, title cases only artists not join phrases
e.g. The Beatles feat. The Who.

This plugin sorts multi-value tags e.g. Performers alphabetically.

Note: Some multi-value tags are excluded for the following reasons:

1. Sequence is important e.g. Artists
2. The sequence of one tag is linked to the sequence of another e.g. Label and Catalogue number.

Sets the albumartist to "Soundtrack" if releasetype is a soundtrack.

Standardises "featuring" join phrases for artists to "feat."

Splits multi-instrument performer tags into single instruments and combines names so e.g. (from 10cc by 10cc track 1):

Performer [acoustic guitar, bass, dobro, electric guitar and tambourine]: Graham Gouldman
Performer [acoustic guitar, electric guitar, grand piano and synthesizer]: Lol Creme
Performer [electric guitar, moog and slide guitar]: Eric Stewart

becomes:

Performer [acoustic guitar]: Graham Gouldman; Lol Creme
Performer [bass]: Graham Gouldman
Performer [dobro]: Graham Gouldman
Performer [electric guitar]: Eric Stewart; Graham Gouldman; Lol Creme
Performer [grand piano]: Lol Creme
Performer [moog]: Eric Stewart
Performer [slide guitar]: Eric Stewart
Performer [synthesizer]: Lol Creme
Performer [tambourine]: Graham Gouldman

Update: This version now sorts the performer tags in order to maintain a consistent value and avoid tags appearing to change even though the base data is equivalent.

A plugin allowing submission of specific tags on tracks you own (defaults to genre and mood) as folksonomy tags on MusicBrainz. Supports submitting to recording, release, release group and release artist entities.

A MusicBrainz login is required to use this plugin. Log in first by going to the General options. Then, to use, right click on a track or release then go to Plugins and depending on what you want to submit, choose the option you want.

Uses code from rdswift's "Submit ISRC" plugin (specifically, the handling of the network response)

Adds a right click option on an album to submit the ISRCs to the MusicBrainz server specified in the Options.

To use this function, you must first match your files to the appropriate tracks for a release. Once this is done, but before you save your files if you have Picard set to overwrite the 'isrc' tag in your files, right-click the release and select "Submit ISRCs" in the "Plugins" section. For each file that has a single valid ISRC in its metadata, the ISRC will be added to the recording on the release if it does not already exist. Once all tracks for the release have been processed, the missing ISRCs will be submitted to MusicBrainz.

If a file's metadata contains multiple ISRCs, such as if the file has already been tagged, then no ISRCs will be submitted for that file.

If one of the files contains an invalid ISRC, or if the same ISRC appears in the metadata for two or more files, then a notice will be displayed and the submission process will be aborted.

When ISRCs have been submitted, a notice will be displayed showing whether or not the submission was successful.

Tagger script functions to detect if a file is lossless or lossy

Load genre, date and vocalist tags for latin dance music from tango.info.

Use cover art from TheAudioDB.

Capitalize First Character In Every Word Of A Title

Display a dialog box listing the metadata variables for the track / file.

This allows you to see metadata variables beginning with "~" which are not normally visible in the metadata pane of the main Picard window, which can be useful when you are writing tagging or file naming scripts.

Query wikidata to get genre tags

Set work and movement based on work relationships.

This plugin attempts to set the movement and movementnumber tags, but only if the work linked to the recording is part of a larger work. The work tag then gets set to the work of which the movement is a part of.

If the recording is only linked to a simple work without separate parts then it is not considered a proper work and the work and movement related tags will be cleared.

The plugin will always set the original values, as loaded from MusicBrainz, of the work and musicbrainz_workid tags into the variables %%recording_work% and %%recording_workid% to be used in scripting.