#musicbrainz

Would I be discouraged from trying to use browser automation to add links to recordings from an album?

No.

I made a userscript to open all harmony recording links in new tabs. All you need to do it click enter edit on each page.

Neat

Wut… there's no way that the publisher gave streaming services the same barcode that's used for their physical release that has an extra bonus CD, right? That would be so annoying. I guess I need to see if the barcode on the physical release is correct

There are definitely people selling a CD with that barcode, 4570192936709

I am so annoyed, I only expected this kind of carelessness with ISRCs

* I am so annoyed

anomie_[m]: Wait until you learn about ISBNs…

Hi all, how could I use info from this page https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Music in this release? https://musicbrainz.org/release/66d4e04a-9f51-4... - It was painful to match individual files in picard(1), I'd like to help others avoid that pain

@moviuro the release in MB already looks rather good I'd say. Which info specifically do you mean?

filenames being obtuse, confusing and straight-up bad. town_04.mp3 is actually '12 Watchman's Ease'

(repeat 25 times)

I see, that's bad :D And no good metadata either I guess

nope, thus counting on helpful tools (picard(1))

oooh https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Aliases

A straight search from titles extracted from filenames won't work well. So there are only two approaches:

- Fingerprint lookup aka Scan. Should work, but will probably pull in some other compilations

- Search for the release on MB, load it into Picard and drag the files over. Hopefully at least the track number gives some hint for helping match files automatically to the proper track. But your comment indicates it doesn't and needs to be matched one by one.

can confirm #2 (import release, match one-by-one)

Mmmh, yes, aliases actually would make sense to set. But won't help with Picard. Picard doesn't store the aliases in the loaded metadata and hence also doesn't make use of them when matching files to tracks.

If you have the files in proper order on the left you can actually select them all and drop them on the first track of the release. Picard will in this case distribute the files to the tracks in order.

As opposed to dropping on the release, which will make Picard try to guess the proper track based on metadata similarity

I didn't find any way to just match on the duration (which is unique across the release)

It does use the length also. But title similarity is weighted the highest. And if this is a total mismatch like here it fails. The fastest approach is likely the drag and drop of all files on the first track.

Since this probably isn't the first time this has happened, Harmony ought to query only digital releases from MB in my opinion

Though that would have the consequences of excluding any "I don't know" mediums

I think it's good that Harmony prompted you to double check the physical release. Then you can uncheck "MusicBrainz" at the top of Harmony and submit the release, to proceed

True, but it's still annoying that it breaks other functionality