foo_musicbrainz, MusicBrainz Tagger Options

[Dremora]

Allows tagging files using data from MusicBrainz.

Features:

• Fetches data by automatically calculated MusicBrainz Disc ID, existing Artist/Album or MusicBrainz Album ID tags;
• Uses the latest version of MusicBrainz web service, which corresponds to the NGS data model;
• Supports many different tags, including artist, album, date, tracknumber/totaltracks, discnumber/totaldiscs, label, catalognumber, barcode etc.;
• Supports MusicBrainz-specific tags: Artist ID, Album ID, Release Group ID, Disc ID, Track ID, album type, album status;
• Missing TOCs can be submitted to MusicBrainz from the context menu.

For the list of planned features, see issue tracker.

Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated!

Download foo_musicbrainz 0.3 | Join Last.fm group | Get source on Github



Note regarding TOC submission:
Submit new TOCs to MusicBrainz only if you know what you are doing. Use only full rips from trusted sources (so, most likely, the files should orignate from a CD of your own). Choose release wisely — if your version of an album doesn't exist, add a new one. That means, if you don't know the version, don't submit.
To submit TOC, select all tracks belonging to a single disc and choose “Tagging → Add TOC to MusicBrainz” from the context menu. This feature is available only for registered MusicBrainz users.

Version history

CODE

v0.3 (2012-06-24)
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* Fixed crash when metadata has different track count
* New tag: original release date

v0.3 beta 2 (2011-06-03)
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* NGS support;
* New tags: musicbraiz_releasegroupid, label, catalognumber, barcode, totaldiscs;
* Proxy support;
* Option to convert punctuation to ASCII;
* Open-sourced.

v0.2.1 (2011-05-21) (requires foobar2000 1.1 or newer)
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* Added ability to submit new TOCs from the context menu;
* CDStubs are excluded from search;
* Preferences page is now using latest API;
* foo_musicbrainz has been added to the components repository, so from now on in can be updated automatically.

v0.2 (2009-04-10)
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* Added preferences page;
* Added ability to edit queries.

v0.1 (2009-03-23)
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* Initial release.

This post has been edited by Dremora: Jul 25 2012, 00:40

[M@d Man]

First of all, thank you for this great plug-in! I thought about to write such plug-in for quite some time, but I couldn't have done it better.

One thing which would be cool is to use the audio fingerprinting method from MusicBrainz to identify the tracks and albums. You probably know that PUIDs can identify songs and it would be possible to tag songs without ANY different data but the audio data itself. Combining the PUIDs it should be possible to get the album information too. There is an open source library called libofa provided by MusicIP which could do the fingerprinting job.

I don't know much about the licensing stuff but I think you'd have to use the GPL for foo_musicbrainz if you use libofa with the GPL. (It's also possible to use libofa with the APL which I don't know at all.) There is to mention that the fingerprinting algorithm is a patented (U.S. Patent #7013301) and I don't know if MusicIP owns this and allows you to use this technique ( would be logical if they do if they provide a library to do this, but who knows).
If you don't want to use the GPL it could be possible to write another plug-in (foo_puid?) which creates PUIDs and is licensed under the GPL.

With PUID support foo_musicbrainz would be my tagger of choice and I wouldn't have to use freedb so extensively (or anymore :-) ).

But perhaps you have had such thoughts already and this feature is planned to surprise us.

P.S.: another useful link: http://code.google.com/p/musicip-libofa/