#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

To expand on that, you can hit “save” on files in the left (unmatched) column in Picard as well, it will apply all your rules and scripts etc based on the existing file tags

wait so what are the main rust crates for musicbrainz rn?

https://crates.io/crates/musicbrainz_rs_nova is this a good one?

~~You called?~~

Joke aside, here's the situation: `musicbrainz` is currently unmaintained, so I made a fork `musicbrainz_rs_nova` that I personally maintain. So I 'd recommend mine.

Hopefully I should be able to become the maintainer of the original crate, but I'm waiting on a response

Also feel free to ping me if there's any questions, I know most of thing going on in there

When scanning the booklet of a CD, I came across a promo picture of the band... which is basically flipped portrait. Would it be more reasonable to upload it as landscape or just flip it to portrait? :D

yes actually i did call

i need help

i want to build a query, just take a bunch of artist names and the name of the album then find the id and grab cover art

hello, little question. Do album covers that are orphaned (no longer used by a respective release) removed from the Cover Art Archive?

s/removed/get removed

kirvesAxe: I don’t flip booklet scans for text/images. But I’m pretty hardline re. MB’s “archival” aspect

kby: I don’t believe covers ever get removed from the IA (unless there is a takedown request). We just remove the link/UI on the MB side

ok. is there any reason not to upload high-res cover images? some websites don't like that, i.e. musik-sammler limits cover art to 500px.

aerozol[m], well technically I'd have to flip it because of the way I had to scan it, but yeah, I get your point :)

kby: No reason whatsoever!!! Bring on the 600+dpi png!

I remember reading somewhere that IA has said they don't have issues with the picture capacity, so yeah, 600dpi is the recommendation ;)

kirvesAxe: You’re doing the hard work, and every (unless actually the incorrect release) scan is better than nothing! But yeah that’s my preference

"<andy3153[m]> 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" I do. Should I put P.M.E.D.I.A as the publisher since I think it's their compilation? (I never noticed no . after the A...)

"<aerozol[m]> To expand on that, you can hit “save” on files in the left (unmatched) column in Picard as well, it will apply all your rules and scripts etc based on the existing file tags" i am aware of this and what outsidecontext said, however, it never seems to work right.