I’m looking for something to automatically tag some old music files I have sitting around. I’ve been working with Picard, but a lot of albums are not in MusicBrainz, and adding them has been a serious PITA. Is there any kind of software that either:

Can apply metadata directly from a streaming service (like this script for adding albums to MusicBrainz does)?
Can simply allow me to manually edit metadata with an interface that isn’t completely awful to use?

or even:

Two separate tools, one to grab metadata and another to manually add it (maybe a CLI interface for batch operations?)

Appreciative of any advice—I just hope there’s a better way, with how tedious this can be.

EDIT: Just to specify, I’m on NixOS.

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[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

kid3 can apply metadata based on the filename if that's useful for you (just things like title and track depending on how you name your files). I also use it for manually editing metadata once in a while, selecting multiple songs and setting the same artist or album tag is pretty easy to do.