How to Automatically Tag and Organize a Music Library Including Genre PART 1

This works on Windows, Mac, or Linux using the cross-platform MusicBrainz Picard software and it's COMPLETELY FREE. It only takes a few minutes of your time to setup and then the rest is completely automated.

ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR STUFF BEFORE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS!

Name Files Like This: %artist%/%date%/%album%/%artist% - %title%
Advanced Scripting Tagger Script: $set(date,$left(%date%,4))

Questions?

[Akkaren]

For the date to change to just year, it is way better to do this directly in the "file naming" tab. This way your song gets taged with the full date but it will be saved in a folder with just the year. For this do it like:


%albumartist%/$if(%date%, $left(%date%, 4)) - %album%/$num(%tracknumber%, 2) - %title%
>> \The Beatles\1965 - Help!\07 - Ticket to Ride.mp3


Ps: I also wanted it to show the track-number in the filename. For this you need it to show the track as ## rather then #, so you can sort the files properly on your pc.

[faithjesus]

thank you! I've been trying for a long time to organize our music collection. It's such a mess and I figured I'd have to do it myself one by one. I'm thankful I decided to Google how to do it and came across this video.

[ONEsuzukiTV]

7 years later still very informative just about to name all my songs for plex music, thanks for the video.

[jasonboudinot]

I know this is an old video, But this is amazing! Thank You! Cleaned my library up nice!

[DarkGamerA]

For people wondering if this works:
Yes and it is super fast (did 720 files in 5/8 mins)
it also supports many languages likes hindi, japanese and ofc english songs
but sometimes it tags them wrong or changes the name to a wrong name//
also it doesnt always get the actual album and may just put it in a compilation album (like top 20 of 1990) .

but its surely better than nothing..

i gave it 920 files total and it changed 720 of them (out of which 694 where perfect and correct)

[mitchjohnson]

Incredible. Thanks for the video and thanks for the tips. Based on your help, I named mine "%artist%/%date% - %album%/%title%
" which I really like.

[joshuagoodman]

Very clear. You are an excellent communicator, and I appreciate your efforts here. Helped me a ton. Thank you!

[pisleagmarius]

thanks a lot for this video ...it just saved my 27k mixed tracks (its true that takes me about 2 days) as the program crushed lots of times because I`ve trowed to much in it) but overall is a superb program that makes our life more easyer and colourfull.
Thanks one more time ;)

[dylanemeraldgrey]

Exactly what I was looking for. Big ups! Going to subscribe because I see one or two other videos you made that caught my eye. Hope you'll make some more videos soon about things you find helpful. You are a crystal clear guide, and that is actually fairly rare. If you have the time, maybe throw some videos on any subject (i.e., doesn't just have to be tech) at the wall and see what sticks. You never know what may be a simple no-brainer to you that could be helpful to others. And you never know what could get you 500K hits and more subscribers. For example there is a woodworker dude I follow who is trying to build his channel. He spent 100's of hours making very long videos. Then he made a few minute tip/trick video about how to cut a piece of wood accurately with a square (something most of us know) and it got a huge number of views. Anyway, thanks again. Dealing with a massive music collection is still my holy grail. I just got closer to being able to use it more by getting a little deeper with kodi and yatse. I have kodi on my computer as a server/player, my stereo with two sets of speakers in two rooms is hooked up to my computer. I can access and control the music on the pc remotely with yatse. Can also access the server on all android devices with kodi. This is of course all on a wifi network. Just thought this could be of interest to you or others wasting their time reading comments on youtube ;).
- Cheers.

[peteohead]

That's an absolutely brilliant tutorial which, along with 'export for mac' has sorted out my music! Thanks a million.

[callahancovington]

*PRO TIP:* Look at the very bottom of the app, it shows the progress of the app and what it's currently doing. It's small and just one line but it's there. Wish the app developers would make this info more prominent because the app spends a lot of time doing stuff, so it should be easy for people to see what it's doing.

*EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO CONDENSED INTO 3 STEPS:*

#1: Click CLUSTER, wait until it's done.
#2: Click LOOKUP, wait until it's done.
#3: Click SCAN, wait until it's done.

[Concert_Obscura]

Your an F'ing genius! You just saved me from myself and a serious amount of self imposed stupidity! GREAT tutorial, easy to follow and it just sorted and fixed 112K tunes!

[skypallman]

I know this is an old video, but any chance if I just want it categorized by artist-albums- and just the name of the song? Can I just delete the %/ tags I don't want? Thanks so much for taking your time to show this to everyone. Thanks in advance if you could help me with this ?

[dominikdziadziuszko]

Dude this is the best tutorial for this on youtube, nice job!!

[artemisawesomegaming]

Hallelujah!! Thank you very much My Tech Adventures!!!

[Retrocowboy]

Great job I love this program. I had some songs that this program didn't identify the genre so i'm trying install the plugin last.fm.ng but I have put the same version of script that you used in your video in the plugin folder (just like on your video) and I restarted musicbrainz picard and it still doesn't add the plugin into the plugins list? Not sure what to do. I noticed that there is a new plugin already in the list called wikidate - genre is this something new? Should I use that instead of the last.fm.ng?? If so how should I set my options? thanks.

[dez]

Great video.
Q - When I save albums with Feature artists
it create albums folder and in addition many other album folders with Featured.
in the plugins menu = tried checking [feat. Artist removed]
I'm clueless and need help.
thank you.

[jamesabrantes]

need a little help with the plugin here. i already put Last.fm.ng on the plugin folder but it's not working.

[PiaVogel]

Great video ... but i have one area that needs help. followed your process and there was an album with Various Artists as the tag and all the songs were split into folders by the individual name. How do i change that default so that Various Artists becomes the Album name?

[dinoferrara]

For last.fm.ng plugin don't use latest 2.0 since it's tagged in github page that it's a version not compatible with Picard 1.3 and 1.4
The v0.15 version is working still