AllMusic Credits

AllMusic has an extensive collection of credits associated with album releases. There is no API that we can use to extract this information. However many users manually copy credit information, reformat it and insert in into track metadata. This action is designed to ease the insertion and reformatting of the credits. Note that this is still largely a manual process.

The following is a step by step explanation on how to use the action. Load as many albums as you wish. All tracks will be selected. For each unique album:

A URL will be issued through your browser to AllMusic.com searching for the album and album artist and a prompt will be issued describing the current search being processed. The prompt panel will look something like the following image:

The next steps are described by the above panel's help button:

Options

The Options can be modified at any time and remain in effect unless modified again. Currently the following options are supported:

Album grouping

This action supports the loading of multiple albums at a time. This setting controls how the loaded tracks are grouped into distinct albums. When Album is selected, only the Album field determines the grouping. When Folder is selected, all tracks in a folder are considered to be an album. When Yate Album ID is selected, all tracks with the same Yate Album ID are considered to be an album. Note that all modes require that the Album field is consistent. Changing this setting may require a restart.

Search mode

You can search by the Album and Album Artist (default), the Album or the Album Artist. Modes which require an Album Artist will issue a fault if the Album Artist is inconsistent for a given album. If this error s encountered, you can change the mode which will cause the search to be issued again.

Do not search for Various Artists

When enabled Album Artist fields with a value of Various Artists or Various will not take part in a search.

Use exact metadata in search

Yate's Search for Artwork statement's template logic removes most non alphabetic characters when inserting metadata into a search URL. This seems to work well for most AllMusic searches. If you want to search using the exact representation of the Album and/or Album Artist fields, enable this setting. Enabling the setting causes URLs to be issued by an Open URL statement.

Remove qualifiers in the Album field

If the Album field ends with a closing parenthesis ) the text enclosed in the balanced number of parenthesis will be removed for the purposes of searching.

Display artwork in the Artwork Viewer

The Options panel displays various metadata found in an album. You an elect to display an album's artwork in the Artwork Viewer. The artwork can be displayed full size or as a thumbnail. Remember that after the first search is issued you can position the Artwork Viewer and Options panel. The positions will be reused as long as the action is running.

Merge into Existing Credits

By default, the imported credits will entirely replace the Involved People and Musician Credits fields. If you enable this option, the imported credits will be merged with any pre-existing content in Involved People and Musician Credits.

Remove commas in names

Comma in names can be problematic due to the use of a comma as a separator in the Musician Credits and Involved People fields. If this option is set, commas in names will be replaced by a space. Multiple spaces will be compressed.

Discard Composer credits

By default the composer credits will be created in Involved People. These credits are not copied to the individual Composer fields as they represent the combined composers for an entire album. If you enable this option, composer credits will be removed.

Discard Featured Artist if pre-existing

AllMusic displays credits which are the union of the credits in all tracks. If any selected track already has a Featured Artist credit in Musician Credits, this setting will not import Featured Artist credits.

Discard Primary Artist

The Primary Artist credit is typically the same as the Album Artist field. Pre-existing Primary Artist credits will not ne removed.

The Options panel can be displayed without issuing a search by starting the action with no files selected or by holding down the Option key when starting the action.

When closing the panel and files are selected, you have the option of issuing a new search based on the modified settings.

Actions:

AllMusic Credits

Search Templates:

AllMusic Search Album

AllMusic Search Album+Album Artist

AllMusic Search Album Artist

Requirements:

Yate v6.17.1

History:

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