Could someone clarify how Musicbrainz is being utilized for music/audio file matching? I installed Plex on my media library server for primarily video watching purposes and figured that my audio library could just tag along. (I tend to use Foobar for playback.) Years later, after using Plexamp for …

MusicBrainz Release ID ID3 tag. [image] ID Matching and Music Libaries Metadata & Adding Files There isn’t a way to do this with the file path, but you can use the MusicBrainz Album Id tag and we’ll always try use that first.

Terrific questions. For a complex music library, there’s a large time investment until you automate your workflow. You can use Musicbrainz, but also have a look at MP3tag which contains very powerful scripting and community support for it. You asked about the minimum tags to help match a track. I …

Thanks for the fast responses! I kinda figured there wouldn’t be support for .plexmatch files. There should be. I know it’s fundamentally redundant to embedding the same data in ID3 tags but updating tags on terebytes of data would be the crazy person choice if one could instead simply drop a new f…

Thanks for the links to a couple of SACDs that we can examine. Let’s take the first Dire Straits one. When you look at the MB web page, you land on the Overview tab but there’s undoubtedly more gory details we don’t see there. I was able to locate the pertinent data buried in the XML or JSON info y…

Oh my…what a mess. I copied my Dire Straits SACD files to a test folder and let Picard perform a lookup. I’m not 100% certain I did the lookup correctly because it came back with a list of three albums on the right. It wasn’t clear to me whether it thought each one of those albums corresponded to e…

MP3tag fares much better than Picard but it is struggling with the disc numbering on the Dire Straits SACD. It doesn’t indicate which tracks are in which folders on the “Adjust tab information” screen, which is part of the problem. It is more efficient about pulling the metadata down and honest at i…

only two tracks :slight_smile: I’m short on time, but Ill try to follow you work over the next couple days. You might have luck asking for clarification on the musicbrainz forum how SACDs with multiple layers are typically handled. It may be as you found, just saying Disc 1, Disc 2, or Disc 3. …

The way SACD (and Bluray and DVD-A) releases are catalogued on MB, there is no satisfying way how different versions/mixes of tracks are handled. Ultimately, they are just tracks in a common album. If you’re lucky, the stereo and surround mixes are on different discs – but that is absolutely not g…

Thanks for the insight, Otto. MB’s apparent method of using discs to differentiate data streams, sides, layers, or what-have-you is reasonable. Personally, I just use subfolders, so the only practical difference is that their system is ordinal and mine is nominal, categorically speaking. If adding …

Regarding the Dire Straits SACD… MP3Tag and Picard are forever at odds as to which SACD layer is disc 2 and which is disc 3, which is hilarious. Otto’s description is confirmed: placing the Musicbrainz-updated files into Plex and refreshing yielded no useful changes. I’m sure some stuff got update…

Musicbrainz matching theory clarification requested

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Philoplexer August 15, 2024, 5:08am 14

Ok, one feature request submitted - thanks, nibbles!

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Musicbrainz matching theory clarification requested

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