Name that file: identify music by its sound
A folder of Track01.mp3 and 'unknown artist' rips? Each file is acoustically fingerprinted and matched against a database of millions of recordings — then renamed and fully tagged, cover art included. The audio itself never leaves your machine.
How to use it
- Open Identify Music and drop files or whole folders — filenames and existing tags don't matter.
- Each file is fingerprinted from its actual sound and matched against the AcoustID database.
- Review the matches — artist, title, album, length and a match score per file — and untick anything that looks off.
- Apply: tags, the album cover and clean filenames are written in one pass.
It listens — it doesn't guess from filenames
The match is made from an acoustic fingerprint of the audio itself, the same technique song-recognition apps use. A file called Track07.mp3 with empty tags, a mislabeled download, a rip from a nameless CD — if the recording is in the database, it comes back with its real name.
Files are fingerprinted in parallel, so pointing it at a few hundred files is fine.
Full tags and clean filenames, not just a title
A confirmed match fills in artist, title, album, album artist, release year, genre and track number, and embeds the album cover. Files are renamed to Artist - Title — and if they start with a track number, that numbering is kept so albums stay in order.
Nothing is applied blind: the review list shows every proposed name with a match score, likely matches pre-ticked, and you decide what gets written.
Your music stays home
Only a compact acoustic fingerprint — a few kilobytes of numbers describing how the track sounds — and its duration are sent to the identification service. The audio itself is never uploaded.
The names come from AcoustID and the MusicBrainz open music encyclopedia, with covers from the Cover Art Archive — the same community-maintained data behind serious tagging tools.
Questions and answers
Is my music uploaded somewhere?
No. Only an acoustic fingerprint — a compact numeric summary of how the track sounds, a few kilobytes — plus the track duration is sent for matching. The audio never leaves your computer.
What happens if a track isn't recognised?
It is simply left untouched and marked as having no match. Commercial releases match very reliably; home recordings, obscure bootlegs and unreleased material are not in the database.
Can it fix the tags on a whole album I just ripped?
Yes — and if you rip a CD the database doesn't know, the ripper offers to identify the freshly ripped tracks by sound right away.
Which formats does it handle?
All common audio formats — MP3, FLAC, M4A/AAC, OGG, Opus, WAV and more. Tags and cover art are written to formats that support them; files are renamed either way.
Do I need an account?
No account, no sign-up, no limit in the app. Drop files, review, apply.
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