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AllMusic Genres is a plugin for MusicBrainz Picard that scrapes genre, style and potentially other information from allmusic.com In case you downloaded it from somewhere else, you can always get the latest version of this plugin from http://github.com/daveisadork/picard-allmusic At this point, this plugin requires the following library: * BeautifulSoup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup The first step is to create a folder called allmusic in your Picard plugins directory (mine is ~/.config/MusicBrainz/Picard/plugins) and put __init__.py in there. If you're on Linux, you'll need to install the python-beautifulsoup package provided by your distribution (to do this on Ubuntu, you could just run 'sudo aptitude install python-beautifulsoup' at a terminal) and you're good to go. If you're on Windows, I would think about switching to Linux if I were you. There are no configuration options yet (but I'm Working on that), so you're kind of just stuck with whatever the plugin happens to find. Basically, assuming we can find a page for whatever album we're trying to tag, we just grab all of the "styles" listed on that page and tell Picard to use them as genre tags. Failing that, we grab the "styles" from the artist page and use those. On my music collection, I ended up with about 96% coverage, meaning only about 4% of my music overall was either not tagged with any genre data (common with non-score movie soundtracks and other compilations) or was tagged with incorrect genre data (*very* uncommon, though I am working on a way to deal with it). Also, it's really slow. So I wouldn't recommend trying to run it on your 40k song collection all at once. Although, after dropping urllib and urllib2 in favor of Picard's own facilities, things aren't so bad.
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