#musicbrainz

Oh, nice -- just realised "stubs" are a thing now: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-8725

MBS-8725: Allow mediums to have an unknown tracklist

iconoclasthero: can you give some more details what is happening? You try to load the files and get permission errors?

@outsidecontext nothing happens.

I navigated to to the directory, /library/music/12-new.music/Various\ Artists\ --\ Best\ of\ 2024\ Rock\ \(2024\) and then did my normal picard. alaias which includes a terminal & and it didn't work.

I just closed the existing session and launched it with just `picard .` and again, nothing.

no cli errors, it just refuses to cluster them... so to answer your quetion directly: not at present, i've included everything i can think of.

there are no permissions errors, i was just throwing that out there as something i've already ruled out

i canno think of another time when it refuesed to cluster so i have no idea what's going on. also, i've tried in this directory, the orginal dl directory, one just named 'x', so i feel like it's not that. also, parent directories don't matter either.

alias picard.='picard . -e cluster -e lookup clustered &'

picard -d . >> https://bpa.st/XJRQ

@iconoclasthero: I'm still not sure I understand, what exactly does "it refuses to cluster them" mean. Your description with file permission sounds like the files don't show up in Picard at all!? Or do they load?

i don't have it open, but they show up in the middle pane.

If they load and do not get clustered, two things to check: 1. Do the files get loaded on the left unclustered pane, or directly on the right? Clustering only works on unmatched files

they should show up clustered by the time the window finally opens since i called it with -e cluster, but they dont. when i hit the cluster button, other songs cluster, these ones do not. there are no error messages.

Also do the files have the album tag set and is the album tag the same for all files?

$ ls *mp3|wc -l; mediainfo *|grep Album\ \ |wc -l

100

100

so i have to strip the album tags?

Clustering works on the album tag. The above doesn't show what the album tag is, but if the files don't all have matching album tags they won't cluster

yeah, i need a |sort -u step in there to show that the 100 titles are unique.

you can take my word for it that adding the -u doesn't change the number of grepped album.

So that means the album tag is different for each file, right? That's why they don't cluster.

do you happen to know all of the tag names that picard will look to for album name (in mp3 metadata)?

Only the TALB frame

well ffmpeg can't seem to get rid of 34% of mp3 album tags.

mutagen ? ` for i in *.mp3; do mid3v2 -a "" "$i"; done`

is there any way to make picard work with files that aren't in mbdb?

is there like some kind of off-line mode or anything?

1. why don't you contribute to the musicbrainz db yourself? that's what i do when i don't find what i need. then they will show up for you

2. if you don't wanna contribute to the db, i don't think you can manually tag stuff in picard. you can just try something else like puddletag

Well, you can edit tags in Picard manually.

yeah but you can only edit them once you find a match as far as i have seen

it's been more than a day for a couple of the fingerprints i've submitted

No you can edit the tags of any file loaded. If you want you can use Picard just as a tag editor for any file. You can even move and rename files that way