

MusicBrainz either gets the missing metadata by comparing it with it’s own. To work with MusicBrainz Picard open a music file, a folder with music files or even multiple folders with music files. It’s a tag editor that can fill all these gaps and it’s pretty good at it. This is where MusicBrainz Picard comes in. The result of this process is often incomplete and results to gaps in the music collection. The process of adding or changing metadata is called tagging. It can even add metadata to the file by checking an external music database. Asunder creates nice digital music files in the audio coding format that you desire. This is called ripping and is done with software such as the free and open source Asunder. Secondly the service itself can change e.g the app that you’re relying on disappears as happens with the Spotify app on my Squeezebox network music player.Īlternatively you can build your own digital music library e.g from your CD collection. What the examples demonstrate is that eventually you have limited control over the music of these services.

The latter can cripple them to a point that they aren’t listenable any more. This means that music in your playlist can suddenly disappear (or being greyed out) or, what happened to me, explicit songs are being replaced by clean ones. First streaming services like Spotify or Deezer have a constant changing library of music as a consequence of the agreements that they make with rights holders. With all the steaming services available why have your own digital music library? The reason for this is two-fold.
