Pollux Alternatives
Pollux is described as 'automatically cleans up music tag information such as name, artist, album, album art, genre, year, and lyrics. Analyzes the tracks unique fingerprint, so it can never be wrong. No existing track information necessary' and is an app in the Audio & Music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pollux for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Online / Web-based, Linux and Android. The best alternative is MusicBrainz Picard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pollux are Midomi (Free Personal), TuneUp (Paid), MusicID (Free) and AudioTag (Free).
- Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
- PortableApps.com
- Midomi is a music search tool powered by your voice. Sing, hum or whistle to instantly find your favorite music and connect with a community that shares your musical interests.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Online
- TuneUp makes your music fresh and clean! TuneUp digitally "listens" to your music to fix mislabeled song information ("Track01", "Unknown Artist") and fills in missing album artwork.
- Hold MusicID up to music and it'll tell you the name of the song in seconds. MusicID is the slickest way to identify any song you hear on the radio, at the movies, at the club, at the grocery store, or anywhere.
- AudioTag.info — is a free music-recognition service. It allows you to identify almost any unknown piece of music quickly and easily.
- Jaikoz is a tagger that specializes in mass tagging of music file tags. Jaikoz performs acoustic fingerprint matching and metadata lookups automatically using the MusicBrainz, Discogs and Acoustid databases. It can also look up artwork and find duplicates songs.
- A search engine for tunes and musical themes and a collaborative music encyclopedia. Only the melody needs to be known to search Musipedia or the Web. The melody can be played on a keyboard or whistled or sung to the computer.
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- JavaScript
- Adobe Flash Professional
- Music Tag is a powerful and easy to use program that automatically downloads track data and cover art to complete your music library. Modern music players like iTunes or Windows Media Player use data embedded into files to identify tracks.
- PerfectTUNES is an audio tagger containing the essential tools to keep your music library clean from missing artwork, incorrect metadata, corrupt .FLAC files, etc.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows