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I discovered MusicBrainz Picard about a year ago and it handled my collection pretty flawlessly.

I was always wanting to know since then if there are other maintained/curated music databases.

I also didn't realize at first that they offer a public API. The Picard client was decent, but I'd be interested in a command-line solution. Does anyone know if this exists?

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I will wholeheartedly echo the sibling's suggestion for beets (http://beets.io/).

No music makes it into my collection unless it's been imported via beets. It has a powerful import/query/alter API, sufficient config options, and a nice plugin system.

I am not entirely sure this is what you are looking for, but Beets [0] is a really cool command-line music organiser which uses the MusicBrainz database.

[0] http://beets.io/

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