MusicManager

One searchable library for every track — scanned, downloaded, or imported. Automatic artist/title/album/genre recognition, rich filters, and a directory tree, running as your own private server on your own network.

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✨ Features ⚙️ How Recognition Works

Why MusicManager?

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One Unified Library

Scan a folder, drop in a single file, or download from a URL — every track lands in the same searchable library with the same rich tags, no separate lists to manage.

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Automatic Recognition

ID3 tags first, then audio fingerprinting via AcoustID and Shazam, then a MusicBrainz text search as a last resort — all free, all automatic, no manual typing required.

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Folders, Genres, Artists

Browse your real folder structure in a live directory tree, or filter instantly by genre and artist — every list sorted alphabetically and independently scrollable.

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Podcasts, Not Just Music

Flag a file as a podcast up front and MusicManager skips music-tag recognition entirely — you get a free-text Subject field instead of a genre.

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Manual Tags When You Need Them

Every field is editable by hand — genre and year from a dropdown, everything else free text — and a manual correction is protected from ever being overwritten by a rescan.

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Private by Design

Runs as a lightweight local web server on your own network. Your library never leaves your machine except for the free public lookups used to identify a track.

Four tries, one track

Behind every automatically-tagged file is the same recognition cascade — each step only runs if the one before it came up empty:

✅ Free, No API Juggling: AcoustID needs one free key; Shazam and MusicBrainz need none at all.
✅ Never Overwrites a Better Answer: A confident ID3 tag is trusted as-is — the network is only asked when a file has nothing usable.
✅ Encoding-Safe: Old Hebrew/Cyrillic/Arabic tags mis-saved as Latin-1 are automatically detected and recovered, not left as garbled text.
✅ Source Badge on Every Row: See at a glance whether a tag came from ID3, AcoustID, Shazam, search, or a manual edit.

ID3 Tags

Read directly from the file first — if the title and artist are already there, nothing else runs.

↓ nothing usable?

AcoustID Fingerprint

The audio itself is fingerprinted and matched against the MusicBrainz database.

↓ still nothing?

Shazam Second Opinion

A second, independent fingerprint database is tried before giving up on audio matching.

↓ last resort

Search by Name

The filename is parsed into an "Artist – Title" guess and searched by text on MusicBrainz.

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By Link

Paste a URL, pick music or podcast, choose where to save — tagging runs automatically once the download finishes.

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Scan in Place

Point at a folder or a single file — nothing is copied or moved, tags are read where the file already lives.

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Subtitles & Dubbing (rarely)

Tucked behind one icon for the rare video file that needs translated subtitles or an AI-dubbed voice track.

Two ways in, one library out

MusicManager doesn't force you to choose between "download manager" and "tag library" — both roads lead to the same rich, searchable place:

✅ Native File Dialogs: Pick a folder or file straight from a real Windows dialog, no path-typing required.
✅ No Duplicate Copies: Scanning indexes files where they already sit on disk.
✅ Play Right Away: Stream any track or video straight from the library list, subtitles included when available.