Comment by rendaw
2 days ago
I just went through an exercise fixing up tags on my music collection and it surprised me how bad the landscape is (and still better than book tagging, video tagging, etc).
MusicBrainz has an amazing database, but a huge amount of stuff from bandcamp/beatport isn't there. Why wouldn't you automatically import that?
So I ended up using OneTagger which I really wouldn't recommend to anyone, but was still marginally better than tagging by hand after I learned the footguns and restored from backups several times.
> MusicBrainz has an amazing database, but a huge amount of stuff from bandcamp/beatport isn't there. Why wouldn't you automatically import that?
This is why Harmony is life-changing. Ideally, it would become an official MusicBrainz project and be integrated into the site, and into Picard.
For example, here's what happens when I search for a Brandcamp release by its Bandcamp URL: https://harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk/release?url=https%3A%2F%2F...
By clicking the "Import into MusicBrainz" button at the bottom, you can very quickly (usually ~2 minutes, once you get over the MusicBrainz learning curve) add this release as a new "release group", or as a new release in an existing group.
So that's bandcamp->musicbrainz, and then picard can get it from musicbrainz as usual? I assume you need an account. That sounds great though, I guess the point is to have someone in the loop to sanity check things?
> So that's bandcamp->musicbrainz, and then picard can get it from musicbrainz as usual?
Exactly, using Harmony for the Bandcamp→MusicBrainz bit. You just paste the MusicBrainz URL into Picard's search box (upper right-corner of window) immediately after you've submitted.
> …I guess the point is to have someone in the loop to sanity check things?
I'm honestly not sure what the rationale might be for having a human editor in the loop for sources like Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify, etc.