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Beets

Beets is a music management library used to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a set of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

Through plugins it supports:

  • Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: album art, lyrics, genres, tempos, ReplayGain levels, or acoustic fingerprints.
  • Get metadata from MusicBrainz, Discogs, or Beatport. Or guess metadata using songs’ filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
  • Transcode audio to any format you like.
  • Check your library for duplicate tracks and albums or for albums that are missing tracks.
  • Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any browser that supports HTML5 Audio.

Still, if beets doesn't do what you want yet, writing your own plugin is easy if you know a little Python. Or you can use it as a library.

Installation

pip install beets

References


Last update: 2021-04-14