WOW!!!! I am overall very pleased with the results now that I have managed to scan my entire library using the Musicbrainz bundle..
I'm still not sure how to fix a problem where it can't distinguish between two different albums with the same name. One example would be Cheap Trick's 1977 debut album which keeps getting matched as the 1997 Cheap Trick release which is a completely different album. How can I unmatch only the tracks from the '77 release to correctly match that release without unmatching the tracks from the '97 release?
I just spent pretty much the entire day trying to get the two Cheap Trick self titled releases to correctly show up in my Plex library only to have the Turbo Scan erase all my changes. It really takes a lot of work just to remove the items.
1st step: Physically move the files to another network drive not shared in my Plex Music Section which is called "MusicBrainz" and has the Section ID of 7.
2nd step: Do a full Turbo Scan to get the files to show up in the trash (2-3 hours)
3rd step: Verify the Cheap Trick entry is the only entry in the entire library actually in the trash (1/2 hour or so)
4th step: Physically move the files back to the drive with the rest of the music files.
5th step: Start a scan of section 7 without refresh using the command line controls via a batch file. (once again 2 hours before the two folders get added in but not matched)
6th step: Manually edit and lock all fields on both items to exactly how I want them. (1/2 hour or so)
Now you think you have it actually fixed and the locked fields won't change...think again.....
7th step: Run a Turbo Scan again to get rid of trash icons that erroneously appeared during the last scan...
8th step: Pull up the Cheap Trick entry to verify the locked fields actually stayed locked..
STEP NINE: SCREAM, Curse and Yell when you see it has once again dumped all the tracks into one listing and your entire day (actually my Birthday) has been utterly waisted....
What am I doing wrong???? Although the 1997 release is listed in the MusicBrainz database as "Cheap Trick" I have edited my tags to list it as "Cheap Trick '97" with an .nfo file in the folder which the scanners all seem to ignore. I really want to be able to fix this in my library. Last.fm won't make a correction. MusicBrainz won't change the title although I did put in an edit for a disambiguation entry, so I really don't know what to do.
Is there any chance to add the ability for the agent to append disc numbers to the album title for releases which have a value greater than 1 in the totaldiscs field of the ID3 tags generated by Musicbrainz? It would also be a bonus if it could append any discsubtitle to the end of the album title. If files are organized in subfolders by disc number under the album title it matches them all as separate albums with the same title.
Basically generating a string as follows is what I'm after:
Does this agent work? I use Headphones with musicbrainz.org for my music library and I have nothing but problems in Plex with the existing music agents and since my music library is tagged by Headphones with musicbrainz.org this would be the perfect agent for me for Plex.
Does this agent work? I use Headphones with musicbrainz.org for my music library and I have nothing but problems in Plex with the existing music agents and since my music library is tagged by Headphones with musicbrainz.org this would be the perfect agent for me for Plex.
Well, it "works"... But until API is fixed, there's some pretty major issues that others have noted in the thread. Basically, you WILL be searching for the title that the scanner provides, regardless of what title you may try to search for... Because the API is STILL not giving the agents the text you enter in the search, which means the agent has to rely on the Title field, which is always set to its current database title, which when adding is what the scanner provided, so you can only change it by renaming the files and rescanning... Personally, I've pretty much given up any hope that they're ever going to fix that problem (which is why I rarely come to the forums any more and thus the late reply :)
Well, it "works"... But until API is fixed, there's some pretty major issues that others have noted in the thread. Basically, you WILL be searching for the title that the scanner provides, regardless of what title you may try to search for... Because the API is STILL not giving the agents the text you enter in the search, which means the agent has to rely on the Title field, which is always set to its current database title, which when adding is what the scanner provided, so you can only change it by renaming the files and rescanning... Personally, I've pretty much given up any hope that they're ever going to fix that problem (which is why I rarely come to the forums any more and thus the late reply :)
thats totally understandable.
but if musicbrainz does not work, what about discogs, last.fm and spotify? I would be really happy with an last.fm main-agent and discogs and spotify sub-agent.. or something like that.
but if musicbrainz does not work, what about discogs, last.fm and spotify? I would be really happy with an last.fm main-agent and discogs and spotify sub-agent.. or something like that.
The problem isnt the service. The problem is the Plex Agent API for music that is currently broken and has been for a long time now. I've reported it, but as of yet, it's been pretty much completely ignored. The LastFM agent shipped with Plex, relies on a workaround, and while that's fine for simply continued use. I have too much integrity to release something I know relies on a broken behavior sorry :)
Thought I should give a bit of an update. It’s been like what, one and half years since last?
The github page is indeed gone. Had plex forum supported removal of attachments, those would have been gone as well. The code in there is old, designed for a time when Plex had a relatively working API and it just doesn’t work anymore and was just a quick hack anyway. The agent itself though, isn’t going anywhere and while I’m not publishing updates publicly nor am I spending any massive resources on developing it, but it is actually still being worked on. It’s both cleaner and faster than the old version, but most importantly, it actually respects the APIs it is using unlike the last.fm Agent supplied by Plex which violates several APIs terms of services, and because I do not want to be associated with such practices, the agent is completely closed and shared only with the people I know and trust. The agent will be released publicly, when Plex has shown a commitment to follow and respect the services that their systems use as well as their own customers. Until then, I’m sorry, but I’m not willing to have my work banned from these services, because Plex staff decided to be assholes to them.
So on to questions: @Wolf_666 Metal-archives does not license the data under any license. So implementing it would be quite dodgy to say the least. The only available API, also have an unclear status with the site. Metal-archives links to the API among the tools, but the API maintainer says it’s not endorsed or affiliated with them, which adds another level of “just nope” on top of that. So sorry, but until the data is published under a usable license, I will not implement that service.
@TheSatman You can still get the old versions from the attachments in the first post.
And lastly, I’m not very active here as you can see, but I usually pop in every once in a while, and if you PM me, that’ll give me an email, which I do check. So if there’s something that needs a quick reply, feel free to use that.
