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Enhanced Musicbrainz Tagging
joaodriessenPostApril 23, 2013, 19:25
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This is a long shot, but I'm going to go ahead and ask...

My music library contains quite a few albums with missing tracks for which I know are complete, but have been mis-tagged in the past by dodgy tagging software.
I would love for Yate to be able to look through my library, find albums with missing tracks, and provide suitable matches to the missing tracks from the other songs in my library. (AcousticID or musicbrainz matching).
Thus completing the incomplete albums.

However, because some of my albums have been quite badly tagged, some of them contain only one track. Yate could ignore albums with more than say 50% of the tracks missing. (Or looking at it from the other side, yate could scour the albums with more than 50% missing to complete aforementioned incomplete albums)

I wish I had the ability to write a program that could do this as I don't know of any tagging software that can do this. (A gap in the market perhaps??)

That's why I ask here, maybe spark some intelligent debate on how this could be implemented. Or if it is at all feasible.
2MR2PostApril 23, 2013, 20:14
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Hmm...is your folder structure fairly accurate? Do you have one album per folder? Are album tracks scattered all over your drives? Is there a good chance that poorly tagged tracks in the same folder actually belong to the same album? All of these questions affect a possible solution.

There are issues with any possible solution. AcousticID will potentially match the same track on multiple releases and compilations. Far too many albums appear in different releases with different amounts of tracks making it difficult to determine which release poorly labelled tracks belong to.

Let me know the answers regarding your folder structure and I'll see if it 'lights' up any possible solutions, even if partial.
joaodriessenPostApril 24, 2013, 03:44
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Well, unfortunately the folder structure of all my tracks are organised by their tags.
The idea:
a way for yate to offer suggestions of tracks which could complete incomplete albums.
This could be loosely based on track title and track time (matching done via musicbrainz)
I would have to confirm any suggestions made by the app, the track's tags would then be updated with musicbrainz tags.

I have been using a myriad of taggers, but this, what seems to me to be a killer-feature, has never been implemented in any software I've come across.
2MR2PostApril 24, 2013, 07:57
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Intriguing. I can see attempting this in a number of steps.

The first would be to add some code to the MusicBrainz Wizard in Yate to automatically order tracks where the album is incomplete. This should be possible with a fair degree of accuracy as you've already specified that that matched album is correct.

The second would be to support a modified Yate Album Database which would essentially contain all your tracks.

The third would be to give the MusicBrainz wizard the ability to search the database for missing tracks and to present a list of potential matches....etc., etc., etc.

It would also be interesting to have the option to group the tracks under the same folder once properly associated.

The algorithm would be identical for Discogs users.

I'll play with the concept and keep you up to date.
joaodriessenPostApril 24, 2013, 10:59
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Fantastic. I look forward to seeing what you come up with!
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