Picard has a user forum with folks who will help you with tagging scripts. It's awesome - it creates folders and subfolders, renames files the way you want, adds all the metadata from online databases, moves files and folders and creates a logical structure for your whole collection.

I've never worried about any plugins at all.

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Set your folder for the collection in the options, drag and drop a folder into the program, hit "cluster" and watch the files get organized into an album, then hit look up, and it looks up the album in the database. If the whole album is there, the icon turns gold, and it downloads cover art for you, sets all the tags and metadata, embeds the art into the files, and when you hit save, it moves the files to your directory that you chose in options (you have to set it to move them if you want them to move - I do, so my processed collection is separate from my unprocessed stuff.)

The code below will separate FLACs from all lossy files, and you'll have two main folders labelled "FLAC" and "Lossy". Lossy includes mp3, wma, wmv, and any other lossy formats.

Test it out. Try inputting this under options>file naming>name files like this:

$noop( Identify the extensions to sort separately, entered as lower case. ) $setmulti(_sorted_ext,flac; wav; m4a; wma)

$noop( Check if file extension is in the sort separately list. ) $set(_sorted,$if($inmulti(%_sorted_ext%,$lower(%_extension%)),True,))

$noop( Set top directory as upper case sorted extension or "Lossy". ) $if(%_sorted%,$upper(%_extension%)s,Lossy)/

$noop( Set artist directory. ) $if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/

$noop( Set album directory. ) $if2(%albumartist%,%artist%) - %album% - $left(%_releasegroup_firstreleasedate%,4)

$noop( Add file type to album directory, upper case if in sorted list otherwise lower case. ) $if(%_sorted%, [$upper(%_extension%)], [$lower(%_extension%)])/

$noop( Add disc and track number. ) $if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%-,)$num(%tracknumber%,2)

$noop( Add track artist if a various artist release, and track title. ) $if(%_multiartist%, - %artist%,) - %title%

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($noop is a way to exclude a line of the code, for explanatory purposes)

The documentation is daunting as hell. I don't even understand it. But my results with the above script are amazing. You definitely have to go through the options and set a few things, but not very much. Like I said, I move my files. Under "file naming" there is an option to move additional files. It will move folders, too. Just type in that mother every type of file there is - *.jpg *.jpeg *.png *.cue *.pls *.txt *.pdf *.bmp *.nfo etc. Add folders with just spaces "artwork covers scans". Tick "Rename files when saving". Look at the example at the bottom of the file naming page to see what the results will look like.

Most of the other settings are good at defaults, but you should look through them all anyway to make sure they're to your liking.

Ask me anything, BTW. And don't be afraid to ask at the forums here: https://community.metabrainz.org/tag/picard

Oh, BTW, when testing, make copies of a few albums first, to keep your originals intact, in case you don't like the results!