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Over the years, some of us accumulate lots and lots of music files.
Since these come from a variety of sources, theyre not always as neat as they could be.
MusicBrainz is an online database that uses audio fingerprints to identify music tracks even when theyre incorrectly labelled.
So first thing, head on over to Picardsdownload pageand get the installer.
If you use Linux, you could install Picard using your package manager.
Once you finish going through the installer, run Picard.
You will now see the main Picard interface.
Click View > File web app (or press Ctrl+B).
A new pane showing your file system will pop up on the left.
Navigate to the music files youd like to work with.
This folder contains only two albums, so were going to do both at once.
Drag the main folder (or any specific album) onto Unmatched Files.
Picard instantly identified both albums.
One track was not identified.
Click it and click Lookup.
The track should instantly jump into the album it belongs to.
The above screenshot also shows the missing track its the last one, indicated by a different icon.
Now that we have all of the correct metadata, we are ready save it into our files.
But before we do that, we can also have Picard automatically rename the files based on this metadata.
Click Options > Options and navigate to File naming.
Check the box that says Rename files when saving.
If you want, you could set how exactly Picard would format the filename.
For now, were simply going to click OK and get back to the main screen.
Or at least, thats the gist of it.
Picard is very powerful, and music files can be quite messy.
You may come across situations not covered above, but this should be enough to get you started.
