MusicBrainz Catalog

musicbrainz-catalog is a Python application for cataloging your music collection and cross-referencing with the MusicBrainz.org online database. Both GTK and text-mode interfaces are available. Using MusicBrainz helps provide the information about the releases you own based on a CD TOC or a barcode, for example. The catch is that if the information about a release in the MusicBrainz.org online database is missing or incorrect, that you fix it for everyone's benefit. However, with over 1,293,000 releases (as of 2014-06-12), you should expect to not have to enter this information about your release most of the time.

This application can help you perform the following tasks:

• Check if you have a particular release or track in your collection
• Sort your collection alphabetically, e.g., find where a release should be put away
• Create an HTML file representing the catalog for archiving, sharing, printing, etc.
• Track which releases you have checked out (e.g., in the car) or lent out (e.g., to Sam)
• Search for releases in the MusicBrainz.org online database
  • Using the CD TOC (with python-discid) (optional)
  • Searching by title, barcode or catalog number
• Synchronize your catalog with a MusicBrainz.org collection
• Output metatags and a label track to help with converting vinyl to digital in Audacity
• Track other information like:
  • When, where and the cost when you purchased a release
  • When you listened to a release
  • A personal rating
  • Comments
  • Count (how many you have on-hand)

Installation

You'll need the following software to get started:

• Python,
• musicbrainzngs,
• python-discid (optional; requires libdiscid),
• and the musicbrainz-catalog source code.

On Ubuntu Linux, get the pre-requisites with the following command:

sudo apt-get install python python-musicbrainzngs libdiscid0 python-libdiscid

Once you have the pre-requisites, we recommend cloning the source code using Git so that you can stay up to date with development. To copy the source code with Git so that you can easily upgrade later, use the command:

git clone https://github.com/rlhelinski/musicbrainz-catalog.git

The "master" branch should always be the latest and greatest revision.

To get a ZIP file of the latest version instead of using Git, use the following link: https://github.com/rlhelinski/musicbrainz-catalog/archive/master.zip

The 'mbcat-gtk.py' script is the GTK interface to the catalog. Start it with

python mbcat-gtk.py

The 'mbcat-cmd.py' script is the text-mode interface to the catalog. Start it with

python mbcat-cmd.py

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.