Tag Archives: MusicBrainz

GrooveKraft ~ Mac Music Collection Viewer

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GrooveKraft is a fast, lightweight music collection manager that uses Discogs and MusicBrainz to enrich your collection with detailed metadata and artwork.

Features:

  • Import your Discogs collection into a local database
  • View and filter your Discogs collection locally, with artwork
  • Matches releases with MusicBrainz automatically to get release dates
  • “On this day” function shows anniversaries in your collection
  • Randomizer to help you pick something to listen to
  • Missing or incorrect release dates can be manually entered
  • Match quality shown with traffic-light icons (Red, Amber, Yellow, Green)

github.com/v8oholic/groovekraft

Bitfake2 ~ Audio Tool Handler & Manipulator

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Bitfake was originally created to detect fake .FLAC files through spectral analysis. It has since grown into a multipurpose CLI tool for handling music more easily and efficiently.

One common problem was that getting a track’s metadata required long ffprobe commands with messy output. Converting music with ffmpeg was also repetitive. The command itself is easy to remember, but writing scripts to convert entire directories felt inefficient and slow. This project now performs metadata and conversion tasks directly through linked libraries (TagLib/libsndfile/libav*).

Features:

  • Get metadata
  • Get ReplayGain info (useful for music players)
  • Spectral analysis on 44.1 kHz .FLAC files (higher sample rates may be misrepresented, so be careful)
  • Lossy diagnosis (banding score)
  • File Conversion + VBR Support (Works for outputs like .wav, .flac, .ogg, .mp3, .aac, .opus)
  • Tagging metadata (Works for single files, but not directories yet)
  • Calculating ReplayGain and applying it to files (Works for track replay gain iterating through directories, album replay gain is a bit funky?)
  • Directory Conversion (works for all previously mentioned formats!)
  • CoverArt+ (Brings along cover art among all conversions!)
  • Organizing Files by album! (Give a dir of random music, and bitfake will organize it – ty to uncognic)
  • Directory Tagging (YAY!)
  • Album folder renaming from tags (Artist – Album (Year))
  • Spectrogram generation (in .png)
  • Version info (WOW! BEST YET!)
  • MusicBrainz Syncing data.

github.com/Ray17x/bitfake2
gpo.zugaina.org/app-misc/bitfake2
repology.org/maintainer/ray%40atl.tools/feed-for-repo/gentoo_ovl_guru

Splitting A Single Album File Into Tracks

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Convert an album from a single media file with a .cue file to individual tracks instead.

Option 1: foobar2000 (easy, very reliable)

If you already use foobar2000, this is usually the best choice.

Steps

  1. Open foobar2000
  2. Drag either the .cue file or the .flac file into foobar
    • If the CUE is correct, you’ll see the album broken into tracks.
  3. Select all the tracks
  4. Right-click → Convert → …
  5. Choose:
    • Output format: FLAC
    • Processing: none needed
  6. Click Destination
    • Output path: your album folder
    • File name pattern (example): %tracknumber% - %title%
  7. Convert

Result

  • Individual FLAC tracks
  • No quality loss (bit-perfect split)
  • Metadata pulled from the CUE

💡 Note: If the cue has gaps or pre-emphasis flags, foobar2000 handles them correctly.

Option 2: CUETools (best for archival accuracy)

If you care about log verification, AccurateRip, or preserving exact offsets, this is the gold standard.

Steps

  1. Download CUETools
  2. Open it and load the .cue file
  3. Set:
    • Action: Encode
    • Audio Output: FLAC
    • Mode: Tracks
  4. Start

Result

  • Sample-accurate track splits
  • Excellent for archival rips
  • Strong metadata handling

This is especially good if the album originated from a CD rip.

Option 3: FLAC + shntool (command line, Linux-friendly)

If you’re on Linux, shntool works well.

Example

shnsplit -f album.cue -o flac album.flac

Then tag the files:

cuetag album.cue *.flac

Result

  • Clean, lossless splits
  • Metadata from CUE applied
  • More manual, but very transparent

Option 4: MusicBrainz Picard (semi-automatic)

Useful if:

  • The CUE has weak or missing metadata
  • You want MusicBrainz tags

Workflow:

  • Load the CUE
  • Let Picard identify the release
  • Use Tools → Split files

Not as precise as foobar or CUETools for offsets, but fine for most albums.

Picard Barcode Scanner ~ Android App

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Picard Barcode Scanner helps you to tag your physical releases with MusicBrainz Picard. It allows you to scan the barcode of e.g. a CD and have the corresponding metadata from MusicBrainz automatically loaded into Picard on your desktop.

This is especially useful if you have your physical music collection already digitalized and want to tag the files using the correct album.

github.com/phw/PicardBarcodeScanner

DiscoDOS ~ Discogs Command Line

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github.com/JOJ0/discodos
discodos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index
www.discogs.com/forum/thread/1112957

Picard Barcode Scanner ~ Scan Your Collection

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Picard Barcode Scanner helps you to tag your physical releases with MusicBrainz Picard. It allows you to scan the barcode of e.g. a CD and have the corresponding metadata from MusicBrainz automatically loaded into Picard on your desktop.

This is especially useful if you have your physical music collection already digitized and want to tag the files using the correct album.

github.com/phw/PicardBarcodeScanner

CritiqueBrainz ~ Open Music & Book Reviews

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CritiqueBrainz is a repository for Creative Commons licensed music and book reviews. Here you can read what other people have written about an album or event and write your own review!

CritiqueBrainz is based on data from MusicBrainz (open music encyclopedia) and BookBrainz (open book encyclopedia). Everyone, including you, can participate and contribute.

foo_musicbrainz ~ Foobar2000 MusicBrainz Tagger

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Allows tagging files using data from MusicBrainz.

Features:

  • Fetches data by automatically calculated MusicBrainz Disc ID, existing Artist/Album or MusicBrainz Album ID tags
  • Uses the latest version of MusicBrainz web service, which corresponds to the NGS data model
  • Supports many different tags, including artist, album, date, tracknumber/totaltracks, discnumber/totaldiscs, label, catalog number, barcode etc.
  • Supports MusicBrainz-specific tags: Artist ID, Album ID, Release Group ID, Disc ID, Track ID, album type, album status
  • Missing TOCs can be submitted to MusicBrainz from the context menu.
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_musicbrainz

foo_listenbrainz2 ~ Foobar2000 & ListenBrainz

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ListenBrainz 2

A foobar2000 component to submit the music you listened to to ListenBrainz or another ListenBrainz compatible scrobble server (for example Maloja).

This component was originally written by marc2k3. This repository is an attempt to preserve the source code of this excellent component and hopefully to revive the development.

github.com/phw/foo_listenbrainz2

What is ListenBrainz? ListenBrainz keeps track of music you listen to and provides you with insights into your listening habits. For details see:

listenbrainz.org

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListenBrainz

Tagger ~ Tag Your Music

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Features:

  • Support for many music file types (mp3, ogg, flac, wma, wav, and more)
  • Edit tags and album art of multiple files, even across subfolders, all at once
  • Edit unsynchronized and synchronized lyrics for a file (with LRC import and export support)
  • Convert filenames to tags and tags to filenames with ease
  • Lookup file information using MusicBrainz
  • Lookup lyric information using Music163 and Letras
  • Open, manage, and create playlists in many formats (m3u, pls, xspf, and more)
github.com/NickvisionApps/Tagger

AudioRanger ~ Automated Tagging & Organizer

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AudioRanger is a powerful and versatile music tagger designed to automatically identify and organize your digital music collection. Runs on Windows and Mac. Feature-rich free version available. (Has limits)

www.audioranger.com


musicbrainz.org/doc/AudioRanger
wiki.musicbrainz.org/AudioRanger

Muine ~ Gnome Music Player

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Muine is an innovative music player, featuring a simple, intuitive interface. It is designed to allow users to easily construct a playlist from albums and/or single songs. Its goal is to be simply a music player, not to become a robust music management application. This doesn’t mean Muine has no features! Some feature highlights:

  • Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and MP3 music playback support
  • Automatic album cover fetching via MusicBrainz and Amazon
  • Support for embedded album images in ID3v2 tags
  • ReplayGain support
  • Support for multiple artist and performer tags per song
  • Plugin support
  • Translations into many languages

Muine is targeted at the GNOME desktop and uses GTK+ for the interface. Most of the code is written in C#, with some additions/bindings/glue in plain C. Muine was originally written by Jorn Baayen, but now maintained mostly by others.

github.com/mickeyr/Muine
gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/muine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muine
manpages.org/muine