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huh, neat : https://codeberg.org/derat/yambs

IRC?   What year is this?!

I'm trying to use Release Group Series information in Picard to get a folder structure like \Library\Various Artists Series\Global Underground\VA-Global Underground 001 John Digweed Sydney\*.flac

I've been trying to figure this out for a few days, and have had zero luck finding any useful info

Have you seen the tutorial at https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/tutorial...

The key is to identify where (which tag or variable) is providing the information used in the naming script.

Oh yeah, I'm good on naming scripts...   problem is I can't figure out how to determine if a release is part of a release group series

aside from looking it up on MB

Okay, I see your issue. The series information is not something that is provided to Picard when retrieving the release information. You may need to do an additional call to the api (using a plugin), but I don't know how the call would be structured. Perhaps someone like reosarevok has a better idea?

carp, was hoping I was just being dumb and missing something

You might be able to get the info you want by using a call like https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-group/3bd7... where you would replace "3bd76d40-7f0e-36b7-9348-91a33afee20e" with the MBID of the release group.

Looking at the information returned, it does seem to provide the release group series name.

The release group MBID is part of the information available from Picard's initial call for the release information, so a plugin would only need to make a single call to get the series information. Need to hook into the "album_metadata_processor" processing. The plugin should actually be pretty easy to write. Unfortunately, I don't have time to look at it today.

This definitely gets me on the right track...

python's a bit outside my wheelhouse, but the tutorial doesn't look too bad

thanks rdswift!

mhw42: https://github.com/kellnerd/picard-plugins/blob...

Thanks kellnerd, exactly what I'm looking for!

!m kellnerd

You're doing good work, kellnerd!

can anyone please tell me, for compilation albums such as https://musicbrainz.org/release/66f5552c-6ffb-4...

when should the album artist be "Various Artists" vs the compilation artist in this case?

I have lots of releases under the name Various Artists, and lots under someomes name. just wondering what the norm is

maybe its because the release type is DJ mix instead of Compilation ?

I'm currently cleaning up my VA as well...

I do the artist as various, then add a release relationship to the artist, either compiler or dj/mixer depending on whether or not it's a mix or just a collection of tracks

mhw42: thx makes sense for a personal collection but I'm wondering what's right for the musicbrainz db

how does one decide wether to set Various Artists or some random compilation artists name

sentriz: generally you use VA if there is no artist more prominently credited than the rest

in the case of the release you linked above, using the mixing DJ as the release artist is a matter of judgement I would say