MP3Tag and Musicbrainz

[yocky]

I can't seem to get MP3Tag to correctly write Musicbrainz IDs to my files, but I suspect it's something very basic that I'm doing wrong.

My workflow goes something like this:

Load files from one album in MP3Tag
Select files
Hit "Tag Sources" followed by "Musicbrainz"
This brings up a dialogue box with the album name filled in already. I hit next.
Another window appears with the search results. I choose the correct one and hit next.
The "Adjust Tag Information" window appears and I make sure everything looks right and then OK it.

After seemingly having written Musicbrainz tags I rescan my library in LMS, but the Musicbrainz IDs are not there. If I use Picard or Foobar to do the tagging instead then the tags are written correctly. Picard and Foobar seem to apply slightly different Musicbrainz tags because I've added columns within MP3Tag to show me the Musicbrainz Album IDs that have been correctly written by the other two programs. To see the Foobar tags I needed to use the Column field "%MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID%", and to see the Picard tags it is "%MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM ID%".

I'd much rather use MP3Tag, so where am I going wrong?

[garym]

I can't seem to get MP3Tag to correctly write Musicbrainz IDs to my files, but I suspect it's something very basic that I'm doing wrong.

My workflow goes something like this:

Load files from one album in MP3Tag
Select files
Hit "Tag Sources" followed by "Musicbrainz"
This brings up a dialogue box with the album name filled in already. I hit next.
Another window appears with the search results. I choose the correct one and hit next.
The "Adjust Tag Information" window appears and I make sure everything looks right and then OK it.

After seemingly having written Musicbrainz tags I rescan my library in LMS, but the Musicbrainz IDs are not there. If I use Picard or Foobar to do the tagging instead then the tags are written correctly. Picard and Foobar seem to apply slightly different Musicbrainz tags because I've added columns within MP3Tag to show me the Musicbrainz Album IDs that have been correctly written by the other two programs. To see the Foobar tags I needed to use the Column field "%MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID%", and to see the Picard tags it is "%MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM ID%".

I'd much rather use MP3Tag, so where am I going wrong?

Have you tried mp3tag forums. Some very helpful folks there....

[garym]

Have you tried mp3tag forums. Some very helpful folks there....

I can confirm that when I tested this, musicbrainz in mp3tag did add some additional tags (artistsort, year, Publisher, ASIN, ) but didn't add any musicbrainz album ID tag.

[garym]

I'm not a musicbrainz user, but perhaps mp3tag is simply using it as a database to provide certain tag info (as it did with me) but it is not using it to add musicbrainz specific fields to the tags. Someone at mp3tag forums will know....

[reniera]

Why don't you use musicbrainz's picard tagger ?

[yocky]

I'm not a musicbrainz user, but perhaps mp3tag is simply using it as a database to provide certain tag info (as it did with me) but it is not using it to add musicbrainz specific fields to the tags. Someone at mp3tag forums will know....

I've asked:

http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=15940

...but as usual it's never as simple as that. I sometimes wonder if I ask questions in a bizarre fashion as I rarely get the sort of answer I was expecting.

[yocky]

Why don't you use musicbrainz's picard tagger ?

Hmm. I was loathe to do that given that I've just spent a few days learning my way around MP3Tag....but given the solution I've just been given on the MP3Tag forum involving installing scripts that may be the way forward.

[vagskal]

I find that the MP3Tag forum is not very friendly.

I think dano meant that you must install and use the MB Service ID script to get the ID numbers imported via MP3Tag.

I use Jaikoz. It is not really user friendly or as configurable as I would want but more so than Picard. Jaikoz is pretty much automatic if you are satisfied with the tag set it provides (i.e. in fact easier to learn than MP3Tag).

[yocky]

I find that the MP3Tag forum is not very friendly.

I think dano meant that you must install and use the MB Service ID script to get the ID numbers imported via MP3Tag.

I use Jaikoz. It is not really user friendly or as configurable as I would want but more so than Picard. Jaikoz is pretty much automatic if you are satisfied with the tag set it provides (i.e. in fact easier to learn than MP3Tag).

Thanks. I made my comment about the reply I got before dano replied really. I've just tried the Musicbrainz script he pointed out and it works perfectly so I'm pretty happy. I'll maybe give Jaikoz a go but MP3Tag is doing what I need it to for the moment.

So for anyone else who's interested, get this set of scripts: http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?ac...e=post&id=4246, and copy them to your MP3Tag Sources folder and you're good to go.

[garym]

I find that the MP3Tag forum is not very friendly.

I've always had fast, high quality, useful feedback from any question I've posted at the mp3tag forums. And even this poster received fast, on point feedback to solve his issue. So I'm quite surprised at seeing that forum referred to as "not friendly". Just my 2 cents....