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Batch artwork import from MusicBrainz/Discogs
clickjoyPostMay 19, 2013, 16:02
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Normal topicBatch artwork import from MusicBrainz/Discogs

Is there a way to Batch-download artwork from MusicBrainz or Discogs for large lists of files? I'd like to clear most of my existing artwork and re-import all of it from MB and Discogs. Preferably a minimum of the Front + Back + CD + 1-2 Insert/Leaflet pages for each track (or just up to 5 images). It would take forever to do this with the Wizards since they only process single albums / tracks.

Essentially I just need to turn the Musicbrainz and Discogs Wizards into Actions. Hopefully this would let them crunch through a list of tracks and automatically download the relevant artwork. Another way to accomplish this would be to let the Wizards go track-by-track through a selection of files. Currently if random tracks are selected the Wizard tries to look up a "Various Artists" album - I'm interested in a secondary mode that tells the Wizard to treat the selection as a list of unrelated files, and to scan them one-by one.

Doable or Insane?

-t

2MR2PostMay 19, 2013, 16:12
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Unfortunately the Discogs and MusicBrainz wizards cannot currently be run in batch mode. This is for a variety of reasons. The requests to both of these services are throttled to one request per second. Also, MusicBrainz frowns on batching large numbers of requests.

Part 2 is doable and requires some thought.

clickjoyPostMay 19, 2013, 16:23
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Cool. Either one would do.

Oh and byyyy the way... I have a local MusicBrainz Slave server that is not throttled. I would just need a way to point Yate to its IP.

2MR2PostMay 19, 2013, 16:33
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LOL. Too much to think about on Sunday 🙂

clickjoyPostMay 19, 2013, 16:44
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I'll hold off on my Rsync feature request then... 😉

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