Online Lookup of File Information

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Use this with caution! It permanently updates your media files and there is no undo!

Lookup Commercial Audio CD Information

Whenever a new Audio CD is inserted, information about the CD is automatically looked up in the MusicBrainz database. If there's a direct match to your CD, the information will automatically appear, and if there are multiple matches, you'll be prompted to select the correct Album from several options.
Under Tools > Options > Metadata lookup from the Main Menu you can switch what source is used for online lookup.

• Database MusicBrainz with Server name musicbrainz.org is the default.
• Database Freedb (CDDBP) or Freedb (HTTP) with Server name mb.mediamonkey.com allows you to access the old Freedb database now hosted by MediaMonkey. Do note that this Freedb has closed and that the database only contains what Freedb had when they closed. For new content you'll need to use MusicBrainz or an alternative Freedb server that is being updated (we don't know of any).

Auto Metadata Lookup

MediaMonkey can automatically lookup missing Artist and Album Artwork, and Lyrics in the background. This can be enabled under Tools > Options > Metadata lookup from the Main Menu.

Auto-Tag

If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking Tools > Auto-Tag.

Once you've located a relevant Album:

1. Check off the properties that you wish to update.
2. Update the # column of your Tracks to match the Track # of the tracks in the Album you've located, to match the properties of the looked up track to your track.
3. Manually update any other properties that you wish to from your list of tracks.
4. Click the Auto-Tag button to automatically update the properties of your Tracks.

Manually Lookup Additional Track information

If you have tracks that are still missing information (for example 'Year' information is sometimes missing from Amazon), click the web node, to access several databases containing information about 1000's of tracks.

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