MusicBrainz Submit Plugin#
The mbsubmit
plugin provides extra prompt choices when an import session
fails to find a good enough match for a release. Additionally, it provides an
mbsubmit
command that prints the tracks of the current album in a format
that is parseable by MusicBrainz’s track parser. The prompt choices are:
Print the tracks to stdout in a format suitable for MusicBrainz’s track parser.
Open the program Picard with the unmatched folder as an input, allowing you to start submitting the unmatched release to MusicBrainz with many input fields already filled in, thanks to Picard reading the preexisting tags of the files.
For the last option, Picard is assumed to be installed and available on the
machine including a picard
executable. Picard developers list download
options. other GNU/Linux distributions may distribute Picard via their
package manager as well.
Usage#
Enable the mbsubmit
plugin in your configuration (see Using Plugins)
and select one of the options mentioned above. Here the option Print tracks
choice is demonstrated:
No matching release found for 3 tracks.
For help, see: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#nomatch
[U]se as-is, as Tracks, Group albums, Skip, Enter search, enter Id, aBort,
Print tracks, Open files with Picard? p
01. An Obscure Track - An Obscure Artist (3:37)
02. Another Obscure Track - An Obscure Artist (2:05)
03. The Third Track - Another Obscure Artist (3:02)
No matching release found for 3 tracks.
For help, see: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#nomatch
[U]se as-is, as Tracks, Group albums, Skip, Enter search, enter Id, aBort,
Print tracks?
You can also run beet mbsubmit QUERY
to print the track information for any album:
$ beet mbsubmit album:"An Obscure Album"
01. An Obscure Track - An Obscure Artist (3:37)
02. Another Obscure Track - An Obscure Artist (2:05)
03. The Third Track - Another Obscure Artist (3:02)
As MusicBrainz currently does not support submitting albums programmatically,
the recommended workflow is to copy the output of the Print tracks
choice
and paste it into the parser that can be found by clicking on the
“Track Parser” button on MusicBrainz “Tracklist” tab.
Configuration#
To configure the plugin, make a mbsubmit:
section in your configuration
file. The following options are available:
format: The format used for printing the tracks, defined using the same template syntax as beets’ path formats. Default:
$track. $title - $artist ($length)
.threshold: The minimum strength of the autotagger recommendation that will cause the
Print tracks
choice to be displayed on the prompt. Default:medium
(causing the choice to be displayed for all albums that have a recommendation of medium strength or lower). Valid values:none
,low
,medium
,strong
.picard_path: The path to the
picard
executable. Could be an absolute path, and if not,$PATH
is consulted. The default value is simplypicard
. Windows users will have to find and specify the absolute path to theirpicard.exe
. That would probably be:C:\Program Files\MusicBrainz Picard\picard.exe
.
Please note that some values of the threshold
configuration option might
require other beets
command line switches to be enabled in order to work as
intended. In particular, setting a threshold of strong
will only display
the prompt if timid
mode is enabled. You can find more information about
how the recommendation system works at Autotagger Matching Options.