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shorttitle: the music geek‘s media organizer
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The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It
catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using
the [MusicBrainz][] database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for
manipulating and accessing your music.

[MusicBrainz]: http://musicbrainz.org/

Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can
imagine for your music collection. Via [plugins][], beets becomes a panacea:

[plugins]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/

* Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: [album art][],
  [lyrics][], [genres][], [tempos][], [ReplayGain][] levels, or [acoustic
  fingerprints][chroma].
* Get metadata from [MusicBrainz][], [Discogs][], or [Beatport][]. Or guess
  metadata using songs' filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
* [Transcode audio][convert] to any format you like.
* Check your library for [duplicate tracks and albums][duplicates] or for
  [albums that are missing tracks][missing].
* Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in
  any browser that supports [HTML5 Audio][].
* ...and [lots more][plugins].

[plugins]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/
[album art]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/fetchart.html
[lyrics]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lyrics.html
[genres]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lastgenre.html
[tempos]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/echonest_tempo.html
[ReplayGain]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/replaygain.html
[chroma]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/chroma.html
[Discogs]: http://www.discogs.com/
[Beatport]: http://www.beatport.com/
[convert]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/convert.html
[duplicates]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/duplicates.html
[missing]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/missing.html
[HTML5 Audio]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/audio.html

If beets doesn't do what you want yet, [writing your own plugin][writing] is
shockingly simple if you know a little Python.

[writing]: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/dev/plugins.html
    
<p class="teaser">Install beets by typing
<code><a href="http://www.pip-installer.org/">pip</a> install beets</code>.
You might then want to read the
<a href="http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/guides/main.html">Getting
Started</a> guide. Then follow
<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@beets">@beets</a>
on <a href="https://fosstodon.org">Fosstodon</a> for updates.</p>