#musicbrainz

these always confuse me https://musicbrainz.org/artist/948c5ed1-d540-4b... and https://musicbrainz.org/artist/19329ae2-3ddc-4c... << same person so they should be merged???

MajorLurker: Probably, I expect they don't really have two different personas who love Memphis a bit more or less than the other

Say, I found a track on MB by ID (this one, specifically: https://musicbrainz.org/release/1355c8b7-f563-4... ) What would be the easiest way to get a set of tags I can apply to a music file? Normally, I'd just let picard do that, but neither the normal lookup nor the fingerprint (https://dpaste.com/FMTA7FNRB) seem to do anything.

If you open any release from Picard it should add a little green "Tagger" button to all releases that you can click on to load that release from the web browser back into Picard. So do that for any release, then navigate to your release and click the little green Tagger button.

As in "Lookup in Browser" any released you have loaded into Picard.

You can also drag and drop

From the browser into Picard - it has worked for me in the past at least, not sure if it works in all browsers and OSs

it does. or paste the URL into the Picard search field. or search inside Picard using the release search and select the proper release.

drag'n'drop what element? (Though I doubt that'll work on my system…)

I just tried dragging the URL from Safari to the Picard window and it worked (MacOS Big Sur).

Ah, drag from the url field. That did work indeed.

Thanks. (The Tagger button was the function I was originally looking for. Evil magic with that local listening port.)

MajorLurker: + to what reosarevok said, I say merge 'em

JCaesar: I belive jesus2099 has an userscript that makes sure that tagger button always is shown

if you add "?tport=8000" to the end of the musicbrainz url, that'll re-enable the tagger button (assuming picard is listening on the default port)

er, wait, was it 8000? or 3000? :/

8000, if default

Whats your stance on merging artists which changed the band name? especially if they have releases under both old and new name

* Whats your stance on merging artists which changed the band name(old name into new name)? especially if they have releases under both old and new name

in some cases it makes sense - we can use aliases to indicate when each name was in effect, and artist credits to make sure old releases use the old name.

depends on whether the artist intent was that it's the same band, they just changed the name - or if it's a new band/project

i.e. should releases from both appear in a single discography?

Ah, good points. From what I read it is just a namechange, so the artist credit should be enough in this case

Thanks!

reosarevok, CatQuest ..... ok thanks merged him..... https://musicbrainz.org/edit/75104081