I just bought an album and every track has a different artwork in its meta tags. Can/Should I upload them to musicbrainz? How would I extract them?
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Vacuity
Hi. Through the "Recently added" links I came across this release: https://musicbrainz.org/release/a83c8d84-f57a-470… . The editing history suggests it was automatically imported using a tool named "Harmony". None of the titles follow the English language styleguide. I'm just wondering if its a Good Idea to use such tools if they produce non-conforming entries?
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RandomMushroom12
Vacuity: Harmony and other importers just copy whatever's on the streaming services. It's up to the individual editors to capitalize, but in this case I personally agree with lowercase because it might be artist intent, more and more artists decide to publish music with exclusively lowercase, uppercase or sentence case titles nowadays.
2025-04-24 11404, 2025
RandomMushroom12
The tool is not the problem is what I'm trying to say, I'd recommend you use it too if you frequently edit spotify(etc.)!
2025-04-24 11401, 2025
kepstinbrainz
@_discord_971766217830432858:chatbrainz.org the best that can be done right now is to add all the images to the release with type "track". You write down which track it's for in the comment.
2025-04-24 11428, 2025
Vacuity
RandomMushroom12: ok, thanks. Yes, I also though about artist intend. And followe the links to the 4 streaming services. Apple has it upper/lower, all other have it only lowercase. So I doubt artist intend :)
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Vacuity
RandomMushroom12: I only add data manually from missing CD releases. :)
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kepstinbrainz
if you open up the tracks in picard without moving them to an album, you should be able to click on each track to get the cover art from that track (iirc you can save or drag+drop it from the picard ui?)
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Vacuity
RandomMushroom12: and I agree. if the tool allows to make adjustments during import, then the tool is of course not the problem
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kellnerd[m]
shisma.: If it is a Bandcamp release, you can automatically import the track images with the Enhanced Cover Art Uploads userscript.
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RandomMushroom12
Vacuity: If everything except apple music has it lowercase isn't it more likely artist intent that apple music automatically ignores? I'm not sure about harmony but MusicBrainz's own release add page (which harmony just fills in, editors have the last say) has a guess case button and manual editing ofcourse. For CD's there's a Discogs import script if you didn't know already :) But they have different style guidelines too so be
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RandomMushroom12
aware of that
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Vacuity
RandomMushroom12: Yes, I know about Discogs. I'll check the according import script, thanks. (and I'm aware of the different style guide. I already had a peek a few times, but noticed they also have their fair share of typos in the titles.)
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M522[m]
yeah for that case specifically i'd ignore the capitalisation style guide, especially since the bandcamp release (which i'd say is the "most direct" from the artist) uses lowercase
2025-04-24 11401, 2025
Vacuity
As I mostly have to add missing German language CDs - and their style guide also differs for German language - importing from them might need manual edits of each track, as MB has no "guess case" for German language. (which I can totally understand :) )
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M522[m]
generally speaking i ignore the style guide if it's pretty clear that the artist intentionally uses lowercase/uppercase
2025-04-24 11408, 2025
Vacuity
M522[m]: Bandcamp is a good points, especially if the bandcamp page is directly from the artist. thanks!
Hi ivy (IRC): The two edits were so distant I did not notice that the URL had been unlinked in the past. I would certainly have entered it as a votable edit otherwise.
2025-04-24 11410, 2025
yvanzo[m]
ivy (IRC): Also I earlier noticed that SoundCloud is also mixing four recordings of the Turkish artist with the tracks of the Irish band. I mailed the band two years ago about it, they thanked me for the detailed report but nothing changed since then. See https://soundcloud.com/altan-official/tracks
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yvanzo[m]
It would be weird indeed to remove these links due to a few errors (as most of the tracks are still by the Irish band).
