What is Audio Catalog?
Audio Catalog is a free and open-source media cataloger software designed to help users organize and manage personal music libraries. It provides an intuitive interface to add audio files from local folders, edit metadata like artist name, album title, genre, year, track info, album art, etc., build playlists, rate tracks, and search through the music collection.
Some key features of Audio Catalog include:
- Imports audio files including MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, AIFF, AU, SND, and more
- Auto-tags files using online databases like MusicBrainz, Discogs, AcoustID, etc. or manually enter details
- Allows editing albums, artists, tracks data in bulk as well as individually
- Lets users add cover art, lyrics and other information to enrich music library
- Playback support with transport controls like play, pause, seek, volume
- Create and manage playlists, rate tracks
- Fast search powered by SQLite across artists, albums, tracks data
- Customizable user interface with different themes and views
- Available for Windows, macOS and Linux platforms
- Active development and user community providing free support
Overall, Audio Catalog presents an easy way to catalog large personal music libraries with rich metadata and organization capabilities for free. For managing and enjoying music collections, it can be a good open source alternative to paid options like Roon, Plex, and iTunes.
MediaMonkey, Clementine, Strawberry, Amarok, aTunes, Dopamine, Swinsian, Vinyl Manager, Winyl, gmusicbrowser, 1by1, Quod Libet, MusicZen, CATraxx, musikCube are some alternatives to Audio Catalog.