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  • Picard uses audio fingerprinting and the musicbrainz DB to match the items. If the items are in the DB, then it will find them. If they aren’t, then they can be added.

    There are other similar tools (although they might not have graphical UIs) which also use additional metadata backends and allow complex manipulation of audio files. I personally use beets which can be configured to use Musicbrainz, Spotify, Deezer, Discogs and Bandcamp for metadata (it will also help with file manipulation, audio normalization, fetch cover art and many other things). It seems that there is a plugin called ‘ytimport’ which integrates with SoundCloud and YouTube. That might help with your specific question, though I did not test it.

    Beware that the latest release of beets (2.5.x at the time of writing) is quite fresh and might break some plugins. I personally will stick with 2.4.x for a while.










  • I don’t think I change anything except the monospace font nowadays

    Which font do you use?

    It works great and gets out of the way.

    I think that that’s why some Gnome users just stick with it. I personally don’t want to customize anything, if possible. I don’t even want to concern myself with the DE at all if possible. Any time I spend on the DE is time I don’t spend doing the things I actually want to do. But that’s the beauty of Linux: everyone can use whatever fits their needs best, be it Gnome, KDE, xfce or anything else.