Beets: A Python-Powered Music Library Management Tool
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Summary
Beets is a music library management tool that automatically catalogs and improves music metadata using the MusicBrainz database. It provides various tools for organizing and accessing music collections, supports plugins for extended functionality, and allows users to write custom plugins with Python knowledge. The tool can be installed via pip.
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It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database.
Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can imagine for your music collection.
If beets doesn't do what you want yet, writing your own plugin is shockingly simple if you know a little Python.
Install beets by typing pip install beets.
Article URL: https://beets.io/
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