MusicBrainz Picard

I like the way MusicBrainz Picard tags files based on fingerprints.
However, it isn’t listed in the standard repos.
It appears on the build service but I’m not really sure which to choose.
Does it make any difference?

i installed it from contrib repo but get “W: 140232562779904 13:21:41 No decoders found! Fingerprinting will be disabled.”
installing/compiling from source fileprinting seems to work, wonder if it’s one of those liscencing issues

pinktagger - (which also uses musicbrainz) crashes for me when fingerprinting (from Packman) or I get "Fingerprint calculation failed! "

of course ymmv

Yet another app which supports Musicbrainz’ fingerprinting is →kid3. I never tried fetching tags via fingerprints (I simply use the “album search”, which finds pretty much anything), but kid3 is definitely worth a shot. It’s offered by the KDE4-community repos.

picard worked fine for me when I installed/compiled it, even generating fingerprints

Amarok 2.4beta can now use fingerprints for tagging

I ended up installing it from the build service using
multimedia:apps/openSUSE_11.3

However, I get the same error as mentioned above
“No decoders found! Fingerprinting will be disabled.”

I have the dependencies mentioned here

rpm -q libdiscid0 python-mutagen python-qt4 ffmpeg libofa0 libofa
libdiscid0-0.2.2-0.pm.1.1.i586
python-mutagen-1.20-2.pm.74.2.noarch
python-qt4-4.8-2.11.i586
ffmpeg-0.6.25702svn-1.pm.3.9.i586
libofa0-0.9.3-80.2.i586
package libofa is not installed

Although as you can see I have liofa0 and not libofa (not available in the repos)

I tried installing Pinky-Tagger but that doesn’t seem to be able to fingerprint either (although it doesn’t output such explicit messages).

Isn’t the fingerprinting part from one of the libraries?
If so, how is compiling from source likely to help?

My bad. Pinky Tagger seems to be decoding now.

I can only tell you that compiling Picard from the source provides me the ability to fingerprint tracks using the scan option, if some functionality is not included in an app it’s usually a licensing issue. You could contact the packager

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when I attempt to fingerprint using pinkytagger I get nada, the ability seems to be there as it starts but doesn’t finish. The rpm I’m using is very unstable for me.

decoding file “/home/xxxxxx/xxxxxxx.mp3” with lame
QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.