Working With Picard, Episode 1

Hi!

The first episode in my series of “Working with Picard” screencasts has now been recorded, and is available for public consumption :) A YouTube link to the video is available, and a higher resolution Ogg Theora file is also also available. You’ll probably find the Ogg Theora easier to read due to the higher resolution.

In this first screencast I go through the basics of Picard – how to load files, how the interface works, and basic usage with clusters.

If there’s something that’s unclear, or you have future ideas for screencasts – let me know! Other wise, enjoy the screencast – and show you’re friends and convince why MusicBrainz is so cool (if you haven’t already :)

4 Responses to “Working With Picard, Episode 1”

  1. Marcel says:

    Nice work! Will keep this link to show my friends the goodies of Picard.

  2. twpk says:

    I’d like to see what happens when you try to tag about 100 files that have no relation whatsoever.

    After doing a lookup, do I need to do the 3 clicks to select every file manualy and check the info; or is there a way like in the classic tagger where I get a list and approve or dissaprove very fast.

    I havent used picard yet (its too difficult) but it appears to me that it’s only usefull if your music is already sorted on your computer, not if you have a batch of random music with no mp3 tags at all.

  3. twpk says:

    Another thing…
    what when picard makes an error, it says the track comes from one album, but in fact it comes from another album? Is there a place to select from different possibilities?

    Is there a way to automatically save files that have a certain similarity (so I don’t have to do it anymore)

    I would really enjoy an extensive manual I can read at easy.

    (sorry to appear whining but I would love to understand and use the application but I find the classic tagger so handy that I can’t understand this new approach)

  4. Oliver Charles says:

    In this cast I didn’t really want to get past the very basics – but thanks for the comments! I think your questions would be best anwsered if you popped by in the irc channel (#musicbrainz on irc.freenode.org). If that’s not an option, shot me an email and I’ll get back to you :)

    And one quick answer, no you don’t need to select tracks to cluster – I’m working on a slight re-edit of this video to show that – but you can just click cluster and then lookup all the clusters in one go.