MusicBrainz Tagger
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The MusicBrainz Tagger was the standard Windows
MusicBrainz
client
. It supports the acoustic fingerprint
ing of MP3
, FLAC
, Vorbis
and WAV
audio formats with TRM
. It is also capable of submitting CD table of contents
to the server for identifying entire audio CDs.
It is not maintained anymore and missing new features like the ability to deal with the current PUID
fingerprinting and a limited ability to work with unicode
. The new platform independent is MusicBrainz Picard
.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...
client
Client (computing)
A client is an application or system that accesses a service made available by a server. The server is often on another computer system, in which case the client accesses the service by way of a network....
. It supports the acoustic fingerprint
Acoustic fingerprint
An acoustic fingerprint is a condensed digital summary, deterministically generated from an audio signal, that can be used to identify an audio sample or quickly locate similar items in an audio database....
ing of MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
, FLAC
FLAC
FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost...
, Vorbis
Vorbis
Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression...
and WAV
WAV
Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...
audio formats with TRM
TRM
TRM, an acronym or abbreviation, may refer to:*Team Resource Management, Strategies based on Human Factors for the best use of all availableresources - information, equipment, and people - to optimise safety andefficiency of Air Traffic Services....
. It is also capable of submitting CD table of contents
Table of contents
A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents" and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear...
to the server for identifying entire audio CDs.
It is not maintained anymore and missing new features like the ability to deal with the current PUID
Portable Unique IDentifier
PUID or Portable Unique IDentifier is a unique identifier used by MusicIP and given by MusicDNS to identify a song.- How it works :To identify songs stored in digital format, an acoustic fingerprint of the song is required. This fingerprint can be generated using the Open Fingerprint Architecture...
fingerprinting and a limited ability to work with unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
. The new platform independent is MusicBrainz Picard
MusicBrainz Picard
MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform MusicBrainz tag editor written in Python. Picard replaced an earlier "Classic" tagger is intended to be the next generation of tagger for MusicBrainz, with a focus on album-oriented tagging and cross platform compatibility.Since version 0.7.0, MusicBrainz...
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