Search Discogs/MusicBrainz

These actions are used to interactively search Discogs or MusicBrainz, attempting to match releases and import metadata. The action can be run in immediate mode or via the Batch Processor. Four actions are provided:

Search Discogs

The action you call to search Discogs.

Search MusicBrainz

The action you call to search MusicBrainz.

Search DCMB

This is a helper action and should not be directly called.

Search DCMB - Config

This is the configuration action. While it may be directly called, it is automatically called by Search Discogs and Search MusicBrainz if configuration has not occurred or if the Option key is held down when the actions start. Help for each displayed configuration item can be displayed by selecting an item and hitting the spacebar.

Workflow

The workflow proceeds as follows:

• If running in immediate mode and all loaded files was chosen, the action will ensure that all loaded files are processed.
  
  
• If not running in the Batch Processor and the grouping option was not Treat all files as a single release, the files will be grouped such that multiple searches are performed.
  
  
• If every file in the group being processed has the appropriate skip UDTI and the action is honouring the UDTIs, no search will occur.
  
  
• If every track in the group being processed meets the specified criteria for available metadata, no search will occur.
  
  
• An attempt will be made to extract consistent Album and Artist metadata from the grouped tracks. Either but not both may be missing. If consistent metadata cannot be extracted, you will be given the opportunity to manually edit the Album and Artist metadata. At this point you can skip a release if desired.
  
  
• A search will be issued to Discogs or MusicBrainz. The results of the search will appear in a database window.
  
  
• If searching Discogs and you specified that you want to display the disc and track information, the database values will be populated at a minimum of one row per second. At any time you can stop the downloading of the disc and track metadata by holding down the Option key until it stops.
  
  
• A Count column will display a ✓ character if the displayed Tracks (track count) is equal to the actual file count. With Discogs, this column will only be filled if you are downloading the disc and track metadata.
  
  
• The Action Pending panel will be displayed asking you to select a single row in the database as being the desired release. At this point you can elect to skip the release, change the metadata or to continue. If not exactly one row is selected, the panel will repeat.
  
  
• If a release is selected the appropriate release ids will be extracted.
  
  
• If you did not request that additional metadata should be downloaded, processing of the track grouping is done.
  
  
• If you specified that a loose extraction should be performed, the metadata will be extracted, processing of the track grouping is done.
  
  
• If the track mappings can be determined as being 100% accurate, the full metadata will be extracted, processing of the track grouping is done.
  
  
• You will be presented with a panel showing the mapping choices that were made. You can skip the release, do a partial (loose), accept the mappings and do a full metadata extraction or choose to change the mapping criteria and try again.
  
  
• In immediate mode if there are additional groupings, the process will repeat with the next.
  
  
• If batch processing, the next folder will be processed.

Content List:

Action: Search DCMB

Action: Search DCMB - Config

Action: Search Discogs

Action: Search MusicBrainz

Discogs Import Set: Search Discogs Import Set

Export Set: Search Discogs

Export Set: Search MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz Import Set: Search MusicBrainz Import Set

Requirements:

Yate v8.1

History:

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