![]() ![]() I adjusted the options as (rdswift) told me to, and now it finds almost nothing (otherwise that post was very helpful.the music note denotes no file found (but it exists in the system?).Good luck with MusicBrainz, and good luck with the radio station. A better title would be “Why is Picard matching some of my tracks to the wrong album?”, and for another topic, “How can I get Picard to give me the genres I want?”, and for a third topic, “Picard is deleting my music files, how can I prevent this?” For the title of this topic, you put, “New to MusicBrainz (Curious on a few things)”. But you will probably get better results if you stick to one question per topic, and make your topic titles meaningful. It sounds like what you want from the Picard app and the MusicBrainz app are largely reasonable. Or, maybe someone who knows more about genres than I do will give you better advice. You should probably just type in the genre name which you prefer. Picard lets you type in values for metadata, in the right-hand column of the table in the lower half of the window. For MusicBrainz to come up with what you think is the right answer based on what everyone else thinks is probably hopeless. MusicBrainz genre data is an aggregation of lots of differing opinions. But my lay person’s understanding is this: Nobody agrees what music fits in what genres. I am not an expert about genres in MusicBrainz. It picked wrong, and you did not correct it, so Picard added the metadata for the album you did not prefer.Ībout genres: it sounds like you expect Picard to select a genre which you prefer. When Picard saved the audio files, it added the tags to each track for the album it had arbitrarily picked. In your second example in the video, you did not do this process. Once the right album has all of its tracks matched, save it. Once the wrong album has no more matched tracks, remove it. Open the wrong album, drag the matched track from the wrong album to the right track in the right album. You showed in your video that you discovered the correct response. ![]() Picard has no good way to tell which album is the one you want, so it picks one arbitrarily. Picard reads each file (track) in isolation, and matches the audio to those multiple albums. You get the digital audio from one of those compilation albums. Remember that the music industry loves to sell the same recording on one album after another. This is a good part of the forum to start in.Ībout Picard reading your music files from the left part of the window, and putting up not just the correct album in the right part of the window, but also several incorrect albums: that is expected behaviour. They are mostly about how to use the MusicBrainz Picard app. You are asking a lot of different questions. I love it that you demonstrate our effort helping you out. Reading about you getting benefit from the data in MusicBrainz gives me a warm feeling. It helps me, but I also hope that it will help others in the future. I spend a lot of time making entries to my corner of MusicBrainz. Of course, as you get more familiar with working with it, you can tweak the settings even more. Then set the “Maximum number of genres” to 1. In the Metadata Options / Genres section, make sure “Use genres from MusicBrainz” is checked (and possibly uncheck “Use folksonomy tags as genres”). In the Metadata Options / Preferred Releases section, set the “Album” slider all the way to the right (and possibly set everything else all the way to the left). I generally have the auto clustering turned off as well, but that’s a personal preference. ![]() When the files are grouped (clustered) by album, you want to use the “Lookup” function and not the “Scan” function. In the General Options make sure that the “Automatically scan all new files” option is turned OFF. Some settings that you might want to consider: This might provide some additional insights into the use of the program for your use case. A few suggestions that might help make your journey a little smoother…įirst, you might want to check out the Picard User Guide, in particular the section on Workflows: When files are grouped by album. ![]()
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