My concurrent effort is to also work with Jaikoz to see if the tagger can be configured to “build albums” or otherwise prefer the top rated results. I could be very wrong with how Musicbrainz works, but right now, based solely on the results I get for the Beatles alone, I do not know if the database is as accurate as people hope. Which means that someone told Musicbraiz that a song file that should have been attached to, say, Beatles For Sale, or Past Masters, belongs elsewhere and as QA is crowdsourced, it would take decades for the data to be properly attested and the proper albums “rise to the top.” And IIRC, Musicbrainz has unique IDs for each individual file. Gracenote would absolutely match these songs to the albums I expect. But the tagger can only work with the data it’s given, and I don’t know if Musicbrainz data is clean enough to accurately tag my collection - or if the ALL the folks tagging have the provenance for their entries.
Now, I believe that the music tagger needs to take the blame for not assembling albums and just hitting the first entry and calling it a day, regardless. I bring these up because not a single song in my collection should be tagged to anything esoteric, and yet my collection is now tagged to albums I never owned, at the expense of albums I do own. Yet Musicbrainz has this as Sie liebt dich (She Loves You) / I’ll Get You Sie liebt dich - should be on Past Masters Volume 1, as that’s the CD I purchased. it literally HAS to be, because that’s the only way I acquired the song.Įight Days A Week - should be on Beatles For Sale, or, at worst the “Red Album” (of which I have no provenance) but Musicbrainz has it as “The US Albums” which was released long after I stopped buying CDs and purchased directly from iTunes. This should be A Hard Day’ Night, track 1 from the Parlophone 2009 release. So if I bang my collection up against Musicbrainz, every song I have should belong to one of those CDs or be a duplicate thereof.Ī Hard Day’s Night is tagged as I Should Have Known Better (RM1 take 22), A Hard Day’s Night Deluxe Edition, Vol. However, my Beatles collection - acquired long before the Internet existed, is solely comprised of the Parlophone CDs, 1, and I believe the first Anthology. That comprises the bulk of my collection. To be clear, the vast majority of my collection also “has the receipts.” I have my CD collection, my husband’s CD collection, my mother’s and my father’s.
In my efforts to determine where the point of failure lies, I’ve decided to focus on a specific subset of music - specifically my Beatles collection, because I (as the kids say) “have the receipts” - I know exactly which albums I do have. Yet, my first pass (using Jaikoz) with MusicBrainz has, to be polite, introduced a significant delta in expected results, to the point where I am now manually tagging over 80% of over 50,000 songs. In the past, I’ve used TuneUp, which has been pretty spot-on as far as identifying songs yet as TuneUp no longer seems to be in development, I need to look into alternatives, and Musicbrainz seems to be “the” alternative to Gracenote. I’ve been working on restoring my music library, which is quite extensive.
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