Features

What CheeTag is meant to do — from taking stock to the playlist on your phone.

Capture

• Read the collection recursively: format, bitrate, length, existing tags, embedded cover.
• A checksum over the pure audio data — so the same music with different tags counts as the same.
• Repeat runs only read what is new or changed.
• Unreadable files are reported instead of skipped, with the reason.

Identify

• An acoustic fingerprint per track, matched through AcoustID.
• Files are grouped into albums and held against MusicBrainz releases — with a match score per candidate.
• Without a fingerprint: a search over existing tags and file names.

Review and apply

• A workbench showing before and after per album, with the candidate switchable.
• Covers from the Cover Art Archive, chosen by hand where needed.
• Consistent naming following a scheme you set.
• A journal with undo: every change stays traceable.

Tidy up

• Duplicates: exact copies through the checksum, the same recording in another quality through the MusicBrainz id.
• Dissolving compilations: a track from a collection ends up with its own artist and album — the collection survives as a playlist in its original order.

Listen

• Views by album, artist, genre and year, fluid even with many thousand tracks.
• Playlists in seconds, plus rules for smart ones.
• Lyrics to sing along to, where they are freely available.
• A way onto the phone through Navidrome.