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I'd like Banshee to automatically find and fix the correct song title and artist names and album information for my music from the internet. Is this possible with this software?

Something like, 'find music metadata'.

Marco Ceppi
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If you have a Last.fm account, try the Last.fm Fingerprint Extension Install Last.fm Fingerprint Extension for Banshee.

After installing this extension, enable it in Banshee by going to Edit > Preferences > Extensions and checking the box next to Last.fm Fingerprint. With this extension enabled, you can right click on any song in your library and choose "Get Information from Track Fingerprint" which will find the song on Last.fm and fix your local metadata if it is incorrect.

Install Last.fm Fingerprint Extension

Michael Martin-Smucker
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    this would be great if it didn't time out so quickly and you weren't prompted for username and password each time. It's quicker to edit the files by hand. – Matthew Hegarty Apr 15 '12 at 07:30
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There is standalone program for that (not Banshee) - Picard, in Ubuntu repos. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard

Extender
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  • Picard is great, the only problem is that sometimes Banshee doesn't notice when 3rd-party apps update metadata: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649806

    There has been talk of building a Picard-like tool for Banshee (that uses MusicBrainz as its backend), but so far that hasn't happened.

     – Michael Martin-Smucker Jun 08 '11 at 02:42
  • Picard is for batch updating :) After that you can rescan your collection in Banshee (to avoid this bug) – Extender Jun 08 '11 at 02:50
  • No, take a look at the duplicate, even rescanning apparently doesn't work sometimes. :-/ – Michael Martin-Smucker Jun 08 '11 at 02:53
  • (But I agree that batch updating is definitely the way to go. It would be spectacular if Banshee's built-in metadata fixup would be a little more like Picard.) – Michael Martin-Smucker Jun 08 '11 at 02:57