MusicBrainz Picard settings

MusicBrainz Picard

 

 

 

Options:

Cover Art

 

File naming

 

Move files to this directory when saving:

/home/user/Music

Move additional files selected with the following:

*.jpg *.png .*.mood

note the .*.mood as the .mood files are hidden files on a linux system and that was the only way I could figure out to identify them.

Name files like this:

$set(normalbumartist,$if($eq($lower($left(%albumartist%,4)),the ),$right(%albumartist%, $sub($len(%albumartist%),4))\, The,%albumartist%))

$if($eq(%albumartist%,Various Artists), $replace(VA/%album%-$left(%date%,4)$if(%discnumber%,-Disc %discnumber%,)/$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %artist% - %title%,:,), $firstalphachar($upper(%normalbumartist%))/%normalbumartist%/%album% - $left(%date%,4) - Disc %discnumber%/$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %normalbumartist% - %title%)

This is my custom script to enforce the correct rename of files.

And will create the following examples:

/home/user/Music/B/Beatles, The/Help! - 1965 - Disc 1/07 - Beatles, The - Ticket to Ride.mp3

And as per Metadata selection for "Various Artists" the following will be done for Various Artists,

/home/user/Music/VA/....

 Fingerprinting:

/chromaprint/fpcalc used.

I do find the following Plugins very handy:

Add Cluster As Release

Search Discogs for Release

Search with Google

To ensure proper mp3 tagging for iTunes I added the following to

Advanced/Scripting:

Tagger Script:

$if($and($eq(%compilation%,1),$ne(%albumartist%,Various Artists)),$set(compilation,0))