$4 CAD per CD (~$3 USD) — flat

One price, no tiers. Same whether the release is already in MusicBrainz or whether it needs to be added or enriched from Idagio, Apple Music, or a clean Discogs page.

Two payments, not one

Quotes split into a deposit and a balance — the deposit secures your slot and starts the work; the balance settles once you've reviewed the result.

1. 50% deposit at quote acceptance. Pay this and I start tagging.
2. 50% balance after the preview is delivered. By that point the actual CD count is known — discs rejected from the job (rare titles, unrecoverable rips) don't get billed, so the final number can come in lower than the original estimate.

Why split? Two reasons. First, you don't pay for work you haven't seen yet. Second, the final billing reflects what was actually tagged, not the rough estimate from intake — so you're never overcharged for discs that fell outside scope.

Why flat pricing

When a release is missing from MusicBrainz, the work to add it is real — search Idagio or Apple Music for the metadata, build the release in MB, link recordings to works, add character credits. That's roughly three times the effort of tagging an already-curated release.

Most services would tier this and charge more. I don't, for two reasons:

1. The contribution loop is the point. Every enriched release I ship to MB benefits the entire open-data community — Picard users, Roon, Lyrion, ListenBrainz, future customers. Charging extra would undercut that framing.
2. Predictability beats squeezing. You know the price up front without auditing your own library against MB's coverage. The averaged hourly rate is acceptable for a hobby-scale operation.

What's included

• Per-track tag write (composer, work, movement, catalogue ref, role-aware artists, character credits, multi-level genre).
• Multi-format support: FLAC, OGG, M4A. Same tag content, format-correct atoms.
• MB enrichment when an outside source warrants it (Idagio, Apple Music, or — sparingly — a clean Discogs page).
• A 15-second-per-track preview before final delivery so you can scan every track in your player.
• Files delivered in a fresh folder tree organised from the tags (Classical / Composer / Genre / Performer / Album for classical, Jazz / Artist / Year - Album for jazz).
• Return shipping for mailed media (cost baked into the quote).
• Source files destroyed within 14 days of delivery.

What's not included

• Liner-note research, hand-curation, or metadata from obscure sources.
• Re-tagging if you modify files after delivery.
• Compilations missing from MusicBrainz (out of scope — see the home page for boundaries).

Currency and payment methods

Prices in CAD. Non-Canadian customers pay the CAD amount in their own currency at the processor's FX rate — no conversion math either side. Same three methods on both the deposit and the balance:

• Stripe — credit cards (Visa / Mastercard / Apple Pay / Google Pay). Confirms instantly.
• Interac e-Transfer — Canadian customers, zero fees, manually confirmed within a business day.
• Wise — international bank transfers at mid-market FX, manually confirmed within a business day.

Free dry run

Free 10-CD dry run before you commit anything. You pick the CDs (operas, lieder cycles, concertos — whatever's representative of your collection); I tag them and return them for review. No payment until you've seen the actual output on your music in your player.

If you proceed afterwards, the dry-run trial converts to a paid quote for the remaining CDs — the 10 are already done, so you only pay for what's left at $4/CD.

Get started

Submit the intake form — library size, formats, transfer method, whether you want the dry run. I'll reply within 1-2 business days with a quote and next steps.

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