# \[WS\] Metal Archives
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923
**Category:** Web Sources Scripts
**Created:** [December 20, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923 "2007-12-20T14:52:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/1 "2007-12-20T14:52:32Z")
### Metal Archives#Search by Album
Search by: **Album**
Imports: Artist, Album, Title, Year, Publisher, Cover + more
### Metal Archives#Search by Band
### Metal Archives#Search by Band + Album
#### Note:
- Only search for Metal music, other music is not on the site
- Also only real Metal (KoRn, Linkin Park or similar is not on the site)
### Download
There is now an actively managed fork by @anton hosted on Github:
> **[antonio-gil/Mp3Tag\_WS\_MetalArchives](https://github.com/antonio-gil/Mp3Tag_WS_MetalArchives)**
>
> MP3Tag scripts for pulling data from Metal Archives - antonio-gil/Mp3Tag\_WS\_MetalArchives
### Installation
[How do I install the script?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2748/1) / [Wie installiere ich das Script?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2749/1)
The original version is available here:
[Metal\_Archives\_04.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/6/68e35c2bf7ddfe8bf8e440bb0c690fad5c0b7953.zip) (5.74 KB)
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### Author:  [@Orpheus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Orpheus)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/2 "2007-12-20T21:47:06Z")
Thank you Dano!
I hope also in future evolutions for this script.
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### Author:  [@koeth](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/koeth)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/3 "2008-04-08T14:05:28Z")
Thank you, great script
Would it be eventually possible to modify the script that you also could enter the album number of the album you want to tag instead of using the lame Metal-Archives search engine? Would be very useful for tagging hole Bands, you just have to go to the Artist page
I have no idea how to change the script by myself
Gott, mein englisch ist schrecklich, ich schreibs nochmal auf Deutsch (ist eh hauptsächlich an dich gerichtet dano), vielleicht wird mein Anliegen deutlicher:
Währe es möglich das Script umzuschreiben das man einfach die Album Nummer von Metal-Archives bei Mp3tag eingeben kann und er die Daten zieht? Die Metal-Archives Search-Engine ist nicht die beste, und wenn man eine komplette Band taggen will findet man die Album Nummern ja doch recht schnell über die Bandpage
Ich hab mir das script selber schonmal eingeguckt, aber sowas ist garnicht mein Ding
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/4 "2008-05-16T16:48:05Z")
koeth: Done/Fertig.
- Enter Band Url to get a list of all Albums that band has.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/5 "2011-04-29T19:22:14Z")
Here's an update for the new design of this site!
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### Author:  [@Pretorians](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Pretorians)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/6 "2011-04-30T06:54:35Z")
Eternal Gratitude
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### Author:  [@biboun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/biboun)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/7 "2011-05-29T06:55:42Z")
Thank you Dano 😉
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/8 "2011-06-11T18:13:17Z")
thank you very much!!! 
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### Author:  [@Draculimortis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Draculimortis)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/9 "2011-08-12T18:58:17Z")
Thank you for your script Dano, it's very useful when I'm trying to tag metal albums that [Discogs.com](http://Discogs.com) doesn't have. However, when I'm trying to tag a split album, there's an annoying problem. In the title column it shows both the artist's name and the title of the song. Can I get the script to tag it properly or is it a Metal Archives problem? I don't like having to manually erase and enter the information myself. Here is a example of what I'm talking about. Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2011, 11:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/10 "2011-08-20T11:53:38Z")
Maybe I can change the script, but for now you can also fix it manually:
In the Adjust tag information window click on "Utils \> Compilation" and enter
_%artist% - %title%_
to split the title.
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### Author:  [@Draculimortis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Draculimortis)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/11 "2011-08-22T21:04:45Z")
Thanks, works great now.
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/12 "2011-09-06T18:17:16Z")
dano: maybe I'll never be thankful enough with you for this so **useful** and **amazing** web source script... but, even when I'm not so clever to made a script like this, I've come with some doubts about how it works, according to my obsesive-compulsive method to organize the music:
there is a way to get the data for genre and country of the band, and adding it to the album info, or it must be done in a separately process?
Thanks in advance, greetings!
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### Author:  [@Draculimortis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Draculimortis)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/13 "2013-01-29T00:45:36Z")
Hey Dano, can you create a script that will allow me to search by artist name and is it possible to increase the amount of results you get?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/14 "2013-01-29T17:56:35Z")
I think you can get up to 200 results which should be enough. Why do you need more?
A search only by artist can also return a lot of matches. An Artist+Album search seems a better option.
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### Author:  [@Draculimortis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Draculimortis)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/15 "2013-01-29T20:42:33Z")
That would be even better. Are you planning to add that?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/16 "2013-01-31T13:34:48Z")
I've added two more search options.
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/17 "2013-03-04T02:39:55Z")
Dano, thank you again for the update, your work is amazing.
Just a little detail, that I've been seeing since your previous version: how the search deals with russian characters.
Ex. Right now I'm trying to get the info for an Arkona (Аркона) album called "Лепта" (Lepta).
If I search as is, with the cyrilic characters it gives me another results (200, as the limit says) but none is the wanted album.
I've tried with the new combination of "band + album" and gives me _another_ 200 results...
Finally, I've tried with the "band" search.... and gives me _another_ 200 results. Which, I must say, appears to be an expanded resultset from the above one.
By the way, I've tried with the searcher from MA page, and I find the right album with the cyrilic characters...
Any idea or a workaround? Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 9:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/18 "2013-03-04T09:17:36Z")
Try again...
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### Author:  [@anton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anton)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/19 "2013-03-04T12:01:51Z")
Thank you, now it works! Well, just a detail: it doesn't get the album art 
But at least now it download all the other data 
BTW, just curious, which was the problem?
Best regards!
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Storm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Brandon_Storm)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-metal-archives/5923/20 "2013-03-26T13:59:43Z")
This is absolutely amazing.
For years I've looked for an MP3 tagger that could reference the Metal-Archives.
However, is there a way to get the genre automatically as well? Or is it a feature that is easily added? Aside from that small tag this is almost an entirely hands-off process!
THANKS!
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