During my tests with the newly added cover thumbnail preview, I learned that it can be advantageous to search more specific for an ALBUM and/or an ARTIST. This can be reached by using double quotes (aka quotation marks).
More detailed Explanation:
If you are looking for an ALBUM like Eye in the Sky
from an ARTIST like Alan Parsons
and you don't want to see any other results from albums with Eye or Sky in the ALBUM name or Alan or Parsons in the ARTIST name, you can enclose your entered or prefilled search text with double quotes: "Eye in the Sky"
and / or "Alan Parsons"
This works for the band name "The Alan Parsons Project" too, because Alan Parsons is completely included and part of the band's name.
This way you can reduce the amount of search results not fitting your own existing tracks.
It's more of a consistancy thing. If it's a physical medium I want to have discnumber/disctotal even if it's 1/1.
Don't want or need you to change your script here, just want to make this change locally. I can make it work with a custom action but changing this at the source saves me an extra step and a coupla clicks. thanks!
I could argue that redundancy is unwanted.
An album with only 1 disc does not need to be filled with a DISCNUMBER 1/1 - it is just obvious - especially if all albums with more then 1 disc get the appropriate disc-number and total discnumber.
The nice thing about WSS: Everyone can adjust it to his/her needs.
The returned JSON data from MusicBrainz seems not to include the track with the track number zero.
As you can see in the returned data, the track object with index 0 includes the track number "1" and is called "Guns Blazing...". There is no object with a track number "0" and the title "Intro".
Comparing them in more detail I can see that the track zero is listed as PREGAP (not as track as the other 14 titles). Maybe I can check this special case this way...
Yes, but it is only redundant if that’s guaranteed that 1 means 1 of 1. If suddenly you have a single 2, it is not redundant information anymore, but missing information. In this case it’s only music albums, so hardly critical. But if you ever get into critical documentation, you would fail in an audit if you don’t make it clear that a single page is 1 out of 1. It is the same with "this page intentionally left blank", it may seem redundant, but if suddenly a completely blank page shows up, you can’t really tell if something is missing or not.
On the physical disc, the first track (0. intro) is a hidden track one audio (htoa).
If you expand the pregap object (just below [13]: [Object]) you'll find the 0 track there.(*I see you've found it)
This seriously impairs the script function... lol no it's not a big deal but would be extra sweet if tracks like that could be incorporated
I'm not sure how consistent the MBDB is in denoting these special tracks though.
Please somebody tell me. How to modify to be able to search by Artist + Title? For me it is much more casual problem to find out some information from an unknown track and then to see where it came from... Also I would add a time matching.
Or explain to me where exactly to input a request
This is not the main use case of the Web Sources Scripts for Mp3tag.
All these scripts assumes that you have some minimal information in your tracks, like ARTIST and ALBUM and TITLE.
For "unknown tracks" with "unknown origin" I would suggest to use MusicBrainz Picard with its Scan (with "AcoustID Fingerprint") option.
IMPORTANT for users of the previous script versions:
I have decided to focus on the release-level metadata in this Web Sources Script.
Therefore I have removed the track-level metadata needed to fill the INVOLVEDPEOPLE tag:
DEL: Removed the Performing Orchestra with Begin- & End-Date
DEL: Removed the INVOLVEDPEOPLE tag
The only remaining tag is currently PRODUCER and only if content is available at release-level.
Please let me know if and why you would like to have the removed tags back.
This would help me decide if I should invest more time in an additional WSS script like "MusicBrainz involved" (<- working title)
ADD: Added a new possibility to "Search by Artist + Album + Tracks" (thanks to @zerothbase)
This additional WSS provides a 3rd search field for the number of Tracks on the choosen album from the choosen artist.
The number of selected local files will be provided (and can be overwritten manually).
This should also work for releases with more than 1 disc.
For example, if you are looking for a release with 14 tracks on the first disc and 10 tracks on the second disc, the search with 24 tracks should return matching releases with 24 tracks.
