In addition to @phw's explanations, this are the suggested steps to do in such "Consistency cases" using «MusicBrainz Picard» and the Musicbrainz website:
What I don't get is that even though my song file has the Title, Album Name, Artist, etc. (most of the essentials), Picard STILL can't find and put the song with the correct album.
This includes doing a "manual" Track/Album search, the correct Album WILL NOT be listed in the Search Results, and also the correct album IS in their database, for example if you check the website, or you search another song with the same Album, it might find it then.
And yes, I've changed all kinds of settings trying to get the correct Albums to show up etc.
I've had to use MANY 100's of wrong Albums/song data cause it just wouldn't find the actual album the song came from.
Oh, and I also don't get that when the file has the above essential tags, "Lookup" won't find anything, I have to use Scan for EVERY file almost. That's like "backward". Shouldn't we be using "Lookup" as the primary method when tags have the basic info already? I mean, audio analysis should just be for those things we can't find, the occasional issue or rare file.
You should ask this questions in the Picard forum:
Databases, acoustic_id...
I will bet anyone all my music, that there is no database on this planet that will e.g. list Sting as an contributing singer to the Money For Nothing song, on any released version of the Brothers In Arms album of Dire Straits band. His vocals are clearly heard in the intro [and less profoundly later on] and he already was a well known artist back then in 1985 ans sill is - and yet he only ended up being the writer of this track and not a featured vocalist on its recording. And so even making a verbatim copy of CD booklet to tag field will not always result with true data
And on top of we have streaming services and places like Steam which in any given moment can replace one mix with another and not inform the client about it
It seems that I was largely wrong and I just lost all of my music. However
Having just checked multiple entries in MusicBrainz for Dire Straits containing Money For Nothing, I can report that info for this songs can lack some of the following info:
- additional guest vocals [Sting]
- background vocals
- vocals
and in some cases there was no info about vocals alt all; but mostly there was that info additional guest vocals
But I bet [this time my life as I have nothing left] that if the video that was made for this song contained a cameo of Sting in it, then the this would be known as a work of Dire Straits feat. Sting or Dire Straits & Sting and not just Dire Straits
I'm not sure what you want to say with this. The music video «Money for Nothing» was one of the first uses of computer-animated human characters and was considered groundbreaking at the time of its release.
Giving credits to Sting (not appearing in this CGI-video) would be against Sting's intention:
Gegen Stings Willen bestand A&M Records darauf, dass er als Co-Autor auf dem Cover der Platte genannt und dass A&M am Umsatz der Platte beteiligt wurde.
This is the funny story about the few words "I want my MTV" he sang:
Mark Knopfler, a member of Dire Straits, told the story of how Sting was included in the track and what made him think about including him. He stated that he was inspired by an advertising on MTV made by "The Police" and figured that Sting would be good in the song:
«I’d seen on MTV The Police doing an ad for it, and I thought "well if I stick that to ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me’ those notes, that would fit." We were recording ‘Money For Nothing,’ and I said to somebody ‘I wish Sting was here’ and somebody said ‘Well he is here [on Montserrat, a Caribbean island in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies], he is on holiday’ and I said that’s great I told him ‘great, get him up here’ cause I can hear him singing on this thing. Sting came up to the studio, we already had the track in place. So he just sang it.»
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