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music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
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beets

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Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.



The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all.

It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes.

It then provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.



Here's an example of beets' brainy tag corrector doing its thing::



  $ beet import ~/music/ladytron

  Tagging:

      Ladytron - Witching Hour

  (Similarity: 98.4%)

   * Last One Standing      -> The Last One Standing

   * Beauty                 -> Beauty*2

   * White Light Generation -> Whitelightgenerator

   * All the Way            -> All the Way...



Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can

imagine for your music collection. Via `plugins`_, beets becomes a panacea:



- 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`_, and `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`_.

- Clean up crufty tags left behind by other, less-awesome tools.

- Embed and extract album art from files' metadata.

- Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any

  browser that supports `HTML5 Audio`_.

- Analyze music files' metadata from the command line.

- Listen to your library with a music player that speaks the `MPD`_ protocol

  and works with a staggering variety of interfaces.



If beets doesn't do what you want yet, `writing your own plugin`_ is

shockingly simple if you know a little Python.



.. _plugins: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/

.. _MPD: https://www.musicpd.org/

.. _MusicBrainz music collection: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Collections/

.. _writing your own plugin:

    https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/dev/plugins.html

.. _HTML5 Audio:

    https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#the-audio-element

.. _albums that are missing tracks:

    https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/missing.html

.. _duplicate tracks and albums:

    https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/duplicates.html

.. _Transcode audio:

    https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/convert.html

.. _Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/

.. _acoustic fingerprints:

    https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/chroma.html

.. _ReplayGain: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/replaygain.html

.. _tempos: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/acousticbrainz.html

.. _genres: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lastgenre.html

.. _album art: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/fetchart.html

.. _lyrics: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lyrics.html

.. _MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/

.. _Beatport: https://www.beatport.com



Install

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You can install beets by typing ``pip install beets`` or directly from Github (see details `here`_).

Beets has also been packaged in the `software repositories`_ of several

distributions. Check out the `Getting Started`_ guide for more information.



.. _here: https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#run-the-latest-source-version-of-beets

.. _Getting Started: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/guides/main.html

.. _software repositories: https://repology.org/project/beets/versions



Contribute

----------



Thank you for considering contributing to ``beets``! Whether you're a

programmer or not, you should be able to find all the info you need at

`CONTRIBUTING.rst`_.



.. _CONTRIBUTING.rst: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst



Read More

---------



Learn more about beets at `its Web site`_. Follow `@b33ts`_ on Mastodon for

news and updates.



.. _its Web site: https://beets.io/

.. _@b33ts: https://fosstodon.org/@beets



Contact

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* Encountered a bug you'd like to report? Check out our `issue tracker`_!

    * If your issue hasn't already been reported, please `open a new ticket`_

      and we'll be in touch with you shortly.

    * If you'd like to vote on a feature/bug, simply give a :+1: on issues

      you'd like to see prioritized over others.

* Need help/support, would like to start a discussion, have an idea for a new

  feature, or would just like to introduce yourself to the team? Check out

  `GitHub Discussions`_!



.. _GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/discussions

.. _issue tracker: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues

.. _open a new ticket: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/new/choose



Authors

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Beets is by `Adrian Sampson`_ with a supporting cast of thousands.



.. _Adrian Sampson: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/