[rroseperry]

A friend on a non-audio site recommended this program to me - http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard. Has anyone here used it? Is it worth the evident learning curve? Thanks in advance.

 

[ferday]

i've never used it, but i highly recommend MediaMonkey if you are looking for freeware.  powerful but easy to use and manages large collections better than any i've tried.  if you are interested in spending $, JRiver is my favorite
 
sorry, not much help i know

 

[rroseperry]

I've got MediaMonkey now. It's great to use, but it looked as though Picard has some other functionality.

 

[ferday]

i somehow doubt that, mediamonkey is powerful and has a fairly wide script library, and it's not so hard to write scripts.  you've now encouraged me to try it out for myself just out of curiosity however...
 
reading through the documentations, it appears there is a lot of drag and drop functionality which could be very nice to use!

 

[chewy4]

I have used musicbrainz before, it works pretty good. The only flaw is that you have to watch for it tagging your songs as part of a greatest hits album. I think this was only the case for some songs I had from way back from the napster days which probably were indeed ripped from gretest hits albums.
 
I don't know anything about a learning curve, it's very straightforward. At least for what I was using it for - recovering lost tags.

 

[deepp]

Picard is good at fixing your stuff automatically, something that mediamonkey is not. But you should try SongKong http://www.jthink.net/songkong/index.jsp I find it alot easier to use then Picard and it also matches songs from another database -Discogs.

 

[rroseperry]

Thanks for the recommendation.