G’evening,
Trying again baby steps to learn this complex program 
In this tutorial: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/quick-start/
Step 9, it says: “If there is an incorrect match, simply drag & drop the track to its correct spot.”.
How to drag what to what?
I have an Adele song that is 8.05 minutes in ‘original value’, but in all the stuff Picard found it is 5:54. Foobar reports back it really is 8.05, so: how to drag what to what?
Thank you very much for any help,
Bye,
That’s mostly for when a file ends up matched to the wrong track in an album (happens sometimes, especially if the names are just Track 1 etc). If you have something that doesn’t match any of our data, then the issue is clearly deeper than that, and you should check whether the time is indeed correct (play it, maybe it has silence at the end or something?) and if so, maybe you just have a version not in MusicBrainz yet! (which would probably need adding, then)
Thank you. The time is right, I already checked, so what do I need to do now with “simply drag & drop the track to its correct spot.”.?
You’ll first have to find a release with the 8-minute track on MusicBrainz and load it into Picard (if you have used the browser lookup, there should be a green “tagger” icon on the top-right corner of every release on MusicBranz, clicking it loads the release in Picard). You can then drag the file from the wrong release to the right one.
If there’s no release with that version of the Adele song on MusicBrainz yet, you can add it.
In this case, the correct spot would be the 8-minute Adele track on the appropriate release.
I was in university studying IT in 1987 and beyond, and in being there was on the internet way before the billion of consumers where on it, thank you. I like to think I am not completely retarded.
Where, how do I ‘drag and drop’ ‘the track’ 'to its ‘correct spot’?
You can’t drag or drop anything in this ‘GUI’, and the tuto leaves a lot to be desired. Sorry for being irritated, it’s a human nature thing. Soon our robotics@google will have solved that problem too.
I already explained how you should load the correct release into Picard. Once it’s there, you can drag the file from the wrong track on the wrong release to the right track on the right release. It’s not rocket science.
It is true that the tutorials leave a lot to be desired. But so do your manners.
Hi @DonBello,
I agree, those instructions only make sense if you already know the answer. 
So, here’s what’s going on in the image that corresponds to your question.
Files from the middle pane are matched to releases/recordings from MusicBrainz in the right pane.
In the image, a set of files has been matched to a release in the right pane. One of them is a poor match, as indicated by
To fix this, you can click on “Afire Love” in the right pane and drag your file off of the track, either back to the middle pane or to a better match.
What the image doesn’t show you is a better match. (Sigh. I’ll look into replacing the image and clarifying the instructions).
To find a better match, you might try a few things.
other versions, which might let you select a different edition of the album, one which matches your tracks better.other versions doesn’t work, you can search MusicBrainz manually for the correct track, and use the green “tagger” button to load it into Picard (it will appear in the right pane).
Once the correct track is loaded into the right pane, you can drag your file onto it (from the poor match, the track with the yellow icon).
Does that make sense?
CallerNo6 has answered in detail, I will add a gif to make the dragging and dropping clear:
btw @DonBello I absolutely agree that this feature is not very well explained in Picard!!
Which is a shame, because once you start using it, Picard gets sooo much better.
Basically:
Left side, your files
Right side, database entries
Match them up correctly for great success!
Let us know if there’s anything else that’s not clear 
Your AniGifs are extremely helpful, @aerozol
A simple “Like” isn’t good enough for your work! I hope that someone collect your AniGifs and re-use it on the documentation pages.
Thank you very much Caller06 and Aeorozol (challenging nick 
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I’m still very confused. It starts, Caller06, because you are mentioning a middle pane, yet I only see a left and right (twice: top, and bottom). That specifically means my limited brains implode with this:
“To fix this, you can click on “Afire Love” in the right pane and drag your file off of the track, either back to the middle pane or to a better match.”.
Aside from the missing middle pane, what does this mean: “drag your file off of the track”? Off what track?(?)
Aero, sorry, I have no clue: you’re quickly dragging a green (ok) 03 away, then dragging something back, and then I have no clue, sorry 
Yes, sorry, there’s no formal terminology. I interpret the image I posted as three panes across the top and one across the bottom. The “left-most” pane is the file browser, and is an optional view. The “right” pane is where MusicBrainz data is loaded (and matched to your files). The “middle” (in that image) is where you perform operations on your files (like scanning, lookups, and AcoustID submissions).
I agree, this kind of breaks the “drag/drop” mental model. If I try to explain again, I’ll probably only make it worse, so instead can I walk you through an exercise? Do this in Picard (but do not click Save at any point!)
) )
save!Sorry if that was long. I hope it was helpful.
You are VERY kind, Caller, thank you VERY much.
I wanted to send you a PM to thank you, but I’m yet to find where that is hidden.
You’re in the US? I’m in The Old World (
), Europe, otherwise, I’d suggest a Teamviewer session, but we’re probably gonna hate each other because of the time zone differences 