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Plugins for Picard

To install a plugin:

  1. download .py file

  2. create new 'plugins' directory (if not existing already) under

    1. Windows: either C:\Program Files\Musicbrainz Picard\plugins (for default Picard application folder) or %APPDATA%\MusicBrainz\Picard\plugins

    2. *Nix: either Picard application directory or ~/.config/MusicBrainz/Picard/plugins

  3. Move downloaded .py file(s) to 'plugins' directory

  4. Open Picard, go to Options >> Options... >> Plugins and check the box beside the plugin to enable it.

Plugins

Name

Description

Author

Compatibility

Download

Known issues/Notes

Disc Numbers

Moves (disc X) from releases titles into separate tags (discnumber and discsubtitle).

Lukáš Lalinský

0.9a - 0.10

[WWW] here

-

Feat. Artists

Removes (feat. Artist) parts from track titles.

Lukáš Lalinský

0.9a - 0.10

[WWW] here

-

Cover Art Downloader

Downloads cover art for optional tag embedding and/or saving as a separate image file (using standard Options >> Cover Art Picard settings)

Oliver Charles

0.9a - 0.10

[WWW] here

(remove the old Amazon plugin (amazon.py, amazon.pyc & amazon.pyo) before installing this one). See 3528, 3529

Last.fm Tags

Use Last.fm tags as "genre"

Lukáš Lalinský

0.9a - 0.10

[WWW] 1 [WWW] 2

(copy both files to directory plugins/lastfm/)

Add Cluster As A Release

Adds right click option to an unmatched cluster to allow adding releases to MB based on tags.

Lukáš Lalinský

0.9a - 0.10

[WWW] here

See 2544, 3159

Generate Cuesheet

Generates a cuesheet from a release

Lukáš Lalinský

0.10

[WWW] here

-

Bonus Disc

Moves (bonus disc: Bonus Disc Title) from album titles to separate tags. (bonusdisc and bonusdisctitle)

Jan van Thiel

0.9a - 0.10

[WWW] here

-

Release Type

Appends information to EPs and Singles such as " EP" or " (single)" (customisable, see file for details). Useful for separating releases with singles/EPs of the same name.

Elliot Chance

0.9a - 0.9.0

[WWW] here

This version patches a PLUGIN_API_VERSIONS problem with the original.

Search Plugins

Launches searches for clusters or releases to external non-MB websites from Picard

Brian Schweitzer

0.9a - 0.9.0+

[WWW] All Music Guide

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[WWW] Amazon

Supports: .ca, .com, .de, .fr, .jp, and .co.uk

[WWW] CastAlbums.org

(Musicals)

[WWW] Discogs

-

[WWW] FilmMusziek.be

("Film Music Search")

[WWW] Game Music Revolution

(Game Soundtracks)

[WWW] Google

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[WWW] The Lortel Archives

(Off-Broadway Musicals)

[WWW] SoundtrackCollector.org

(Soundtracks)

[WWW] SoundtrackINFO

(Soundtracks)

Change Encoding

Converts the tags of individual files or clusters between different character encodings. This is often necessary with files that have only ID3v1 tags in a non-Latin encoding.

foolip

0.9a - 0.9.0+

[WWW] here

You will probably only need to change the target encoding. If the encoding you're looking for isn't in the list, you can type it in yourself and it will hopefully work.

Comments

Luks, I think there's a bug in the Disc# plugin. If you use the following in taggerscript with the plugin enabled, you get more than you'd expect...

$set(album,%album%$if(%discnumber%, \(disc %discnumber%\)))

Ought to give:    ThisIsAnAlbumTitle (disc 1)
Instead, you get: ThisIsAnAlbumTitle (disc 1) (disc 1)

DeleteWhenCooked -- BrianSchweitzer 2007-06-05 00:13:04

  • Would it be possible to write a plugin that would fetch and set the year to the earliest release's release date when a EarliestReleaseRelationshipType exists? -AaronCooper (2007-07-11)

    • Seconded. I'd like to be able to name files like "Artist - OriginalYear - Album (releaseyear re-release|remaster)"; I like things to be sorted by original year (ie, the musical "period" of the band), but differentiate between versions (sometimes I have several). So is it possible to retrieve the metadata for a linked object?

  • Is there a reference somewhere with all the commands possible with Picard plugins (like webbrowser2.open(url, …) ? -- jesus2099 2007-08-07 11:59:20

    • Just the existing plugins, and the source itself. -- BrianSchweitzer 2007-09-18 19:27:35

  • Just a quick request, if it can't be a built in variable... I could easily make use of a %tracklength% variable, be it built in or generated by plugin. -- BrianSchweitzer 2007-10-19 07:03:01

  • So, if we make any new plugins that might be interesting, is it OK to just post them here? And if so, how do we go about hosting them here if it's necessary? -- Baldrick 2007-11-12 14:39:00

  • BonusDiscs seems useful, except I'm wondering how media players like iTunes will react when there are now multiple tracks with the same track number and no disc numbers to differentiate/order the tracks. Perhaps I will modify this to set all bonus discs to disc number = 99. -AaronCooper

    • Using the Bonus Disc plugin as is, I added the following tagger script functions: $if(%bonusdisc%,$set(discnumber,99),) to set discnumber = 99 for bonus discs and (for iTunes to sort properly) $if(%discnumber%,,$set(discnumber,1)) to make single-disc releases have discnumber = 1. -AaronCooper


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