# Best way to import songs that aren't on MusicBrainz?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/best-way-to-import-songs-that-arent-on-musicbrainz/2091>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/best-way-to-import-songs-that-arent-on-musicbrainz/2091 "2022-05-15T13:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackwilsdon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jackwilsdon/32/10_2.png) [@jackwilsdon](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jackwilsdon)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/best-way-to-import-songs-that-arent-on-musicbrainz/2091/1 "2022-05-15T13:34:44Z")

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I’ve got some tracks which aren’t on MusicBrainz and most likely don’t belong there (e.g. DJ sets which are in one audio file) - what’s the best way to get these into beets?

So far I’ve just been been using `beet import --set` with a bunch of different fields, but this doesn’t seem like the nicest way to do it (and I end up having a hard time merging multiple tracks into a single album, e.g. in the case of music events where 1 track is 1 artist).

How do other people deal with importing tracks like these? I’ve been thinking of writing my own little script that wraps `beet import --set` with some interactive prompts for fields, but I’d like to see if anyone else has tackled this issue.

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**Author:** ![scuttlefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@scuttlefish](https://discourse.beets.io/u/scuttlefish)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/best-way-to-import-songs-that-arent-on-musicbrainz/2091/2 "2022-05-17T00:05:44Z")

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I use the [edit plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/edit.html) for this.

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**Author:** ![ctrueden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/ctrueden/32/475_2.png) [@ctrueden](https://discourse.beets.io/u/ctrueden)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/best-way-to-import-songs-that-arent-on-musicbrainz/2091/3 "2022-05-19T18:29:03Z")

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I tag them first using a tagger tool like [Kid3](https://kid3.kde.org/), then once everything is right, import into beets.

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**Author:** ![janpeeters](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/janpeeters/32/182_2.png) [@janpeeters](https://discourse.beets.io/u/janpeeters)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/best-way-to-import-songs-that-arent-on-musicbrainz/2091/4 "2022-05-21T06:53:50Z")

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I use a separate tagger app too like [Meta](https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/) and import afterwards.