#musicbrainz

okay, so it's time to make my first contribution to musicbrainz. i just these guys' discography https://nishaiar.bandcamp.com/ , i have picard and chromaprint installed, what do i do next?

*bought

the easiest way to get started is to install the bandcamp importer script for your browser

and then do a workflow where you use the bandcamp release as a template for new releases in musicbrainz, and then tag your files with that release

there is also a submission flow via picard, but I don't know anything about that, unfortunately

thanks! i will try the extension first and report back

darwin: i import the release from discogs if available, then attach the DiscID - saves a bit of typing :P

then i rip the CD with EAC, then I use Picard to link AcoustIDs and for metadata, then I use AB extractor to submit AB info XD

>You haven’t entered a complete artist credit.

what does it want from me?

i figured that much

ah

done

MusicBrainz relies heavily on linked entities. since names can sometimes slightly differ or multiple artists share a name, you need to link the underlying ID

same for releases and albums and recordings and works ^^

i had to capitalize the artists name

and it turned green

you can click on edit and use the slightly extended menu to select and artist and add a "credited as" name

common example is "The Beatles" when they are sometimes just credited as "Beatles" or "The Beetles" etc :P

okay now i need to submit acoustids

the button on picard is greyed out, why is that?

did you use "scan"?

yep

nothing happened

did you assign the files to a release?

i don't think so, they are just a folder on my computer. i added the folder into picard

they are in the left column

when the files are in the middle pane, use scan on them

i did, nothing changed

then just load the release manually in picard and drag and drop the files onto the right pane

idealy just drop them onto the album, they should get matched to the right track automatically

oh i did a lookup and it worked this time

because those are 2 different things :)

lookup does what the name says, based on the already present metadata and filename it does a lookup

that usually gives good matches

hm, i can't scan in the right column

but i submitted acoustids for one of the albums

managed to

i think

scan computes the fingerprint and uses that for identifying the files. if there is no acoustid linked to the recording, it won't find a thing

just drag the files on the middle pane again to scan them :P

what middle pane? https://i.imgur.com/2K5pJ72.png

turn on the file browser with ctrl+B ;-)

ok so i scanned them while in the middle pane

do i drag them to the right pane?

yes

if you scanned them, just drag the files onto the right

they should match to the right tracks

yay! finally done, thank you so much for the help

yw

i think this part of picard still needs some improvements :))

yeah, i think so too

but it's great. it helped me greatly after i downloaded my collection from google play music. it was just a bunch of mp3s piled in one folder

no good filenames?

01 - song's name.mp3

in that format

btw google play music lets you store up to 50k mp3 files for free. so it's a great way to backup your collection

i don't have a collection :<

what about flac, though? :>

i don't think lossless is something i should spend my space on

how do i make all my edits votable?

is there a setting? let me check

tree: i thought that too and then i realized how little space flac actually ends up taking and how much of a difference it can make.

not necesarily always in sound quality but if you have some tracks in surround.

i convert them to .opus to put on my phone.

and yes, there's a setting to make all edits votable at the end before you click submit right by the note

there's a checkbox at the end :P

i never use it

i mean, i want that by default

so that it's always checked

can you actually make a transcode of a flac file?

if no, that may be a pretty valid reason for me to switch to flac

transcode into what?

into less bitrate or something

like some bad people do with mp3

on the fly?

yes.

statically, absolutely.

or are you asking if you can take flac and make it smaller than flac by reducing the bit rate?

and then the answer is usually not if it is already at CD quality.

if you have a 24-96 file you could go down to 16-44.

wavpack is an option ;)

so is ape but i'm not suggesting that either.

with its hybrid mode

the jvc marine unit i have in my jeep reads flacs.

but opus is the way i'm going with compressed music because of how ubiquitious it is outside of ios

i right clicked an album cover in picard and it crashed :\

The hybrid mode provides all the advantages of lossless compression with an additional bonus. Instead of creating a single file, this mode creates both a relatively small, high-quality lossy file that can be used all by itself, and a "correction" file that (when combined with the lossy file) provides full lossless restoration.

right now my mpd server is taking the flacs that i have and transcoding them into .mp3 and .opus to stream....alexa uses the .mp3 and andriod uses the opus (as .ogg)

yeah, but it never caught on.

theoretically vorbis is also much better as a lossy format than mp3 but i never converted stuff to it.

i can get decent sound out of audio books at 17 kb/s.

with the aotuv version you can even have music at 64kb almost without any perceptible quality loss

useful when you are outside with crappy headphones anyway XD

can't seem to find where to edit genres

yeah. it looks like the transparancy point of opus is around 64-96kb