MetaX for Windows VS MusicBrainz Picard

As others have said, Handbrake doesn't passthru cover art or thumbnail images. If you wished to add cover art to a Handbrake encoded video file, use MetaX. It's not free, but will add cover art and text that Plex, iTunes etc. Will all recognize. Source: almost 2 years ago

MetaX tags videos, adding cover art, genres etc. And allows you to specify a chapter interval and create chapters to fit the length of each file. It will tag a single file or a batch of files in a single process. MetaX is not free. Source: over 2 years ago

MetaX works great on MKVs on Windows. You can find it here: http://danhinsley.com/metax/metax.html. Source: almost 3 years ago

Have you tried https://www.funkwhale.audio/? It can be used effectively as a "private spotify". Labeling is a solved problem thanks to https://picard.musicbrainz.org/, and the fact that a lot of the music you buy these days comes pre-labeled already. You then have a web-app (and/or a mobile app, if that's your thing) where you can stream music as you would with Spotify. You can even build yourself a little... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

I use picard for my collection. My work flow is Picard > Lyrics Finder > Foobar for BPM, RealGain and DR > Custom python script to pull genre and mood from Last.FM and spotify> then Advanced Renamer to perform naming clean up of folder names. I lowercase and underscore spaces. Also does files if I happen to need Mp3Tag when Picard doesn't find anything. Once this is done I move files on to may NAS. Source: 5 months ago

Musicbrainz Picard - A great application that I've used in the past to identify and organize my saved music collection. It's not focused on adding semantic tags though: it's used for adding metadata to .mp3 files. Source: 6 months ago

I do the same but run it though Picard[0] before adding to Plex. [0]https://picard.musicbrainz.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Feed all of your music to something like 'musicbrainz picard' - it will sort out all the tags and provide the artwork too. Source: 11 months ago