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beets vs freedb

A side-by-side look at beets and freedb. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

beets

beets

Audio & Music

Beets is an open-source music library manager and tagger. It automatically organizes your music library, adding metadata like artist, album, year, and genre. Beets also lets you rename files based on templates and supports plugins and scripts for advanced customization.

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freedb

freedb

Audio & Music

freedb is an open database of CD track listings, used to lookup CD information over the internet. It allows media player and ripper software to automatically retrieve track info from the database.

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