Clarification on Picard usage

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@tip32a

I then went to open MBP and found it to be empty. I personally was expecting at east the listing of albums that it created to be there.

No, Picard does not manage a database of your music library. It tags the files you give to it.

@tip32a

The smaller question is Where do I get the legend for the different color Icons in the ablum side of the app. Like the green rectangle, The musical note?

We should add this to the docs, but the following thread has a explanation of the icons:

Loading releases from musicbrainz.org into Picard

Continuing the discussion from Support for displaying similar releases in Picard: @rahulr came up with the problem on how to properly load and use arbitrary releases from musicbrainz.org in Picard. As I think this is useful for everyone I want to detail this a bit. It is also somewhat explained as part of the Picards Basics documentation. Some basics first [1] In Picard you have two panes showing the files and releases to tag. Things listed in the left pane are actual files that are not yet m…