At the moment, the MusicBrainz data source always uses the primary name of artists (and other things that have aliases), with the exception of translated names (see the `languages` option).
Using the alias that’s closest to your current tags is an interesting idea, though! Maybe you’d like to file a feature request on GitHub? Adrian > On Jan 8, 2017, at 6:42 PM, cell <[email protected]> wrote: > > so i'm slowly importing a few test albums and i have a simple case. there > used to be a band called KLF and they had several aliases, for example 2K. > now... beets (musicbrainz) is telling me that 2K EP should be in fact KLF EP. > However... the link brought in the terminal is clearly linking with 2K... So > what's the logic? Shouldn't we keep the original artists / spelling despite > they may be same people behind? > Still learning beets :) > Thanks. > > Correcting tags from: > 2k - ***k the millennium > To: > The KLF - ***k the Millennium > URL: > http://musicbrainz.org/release/3ec83d1e-4f91-48aa-89dd-ac3bd75dd35a > <http://musicbrainz.org/release/3ec83d1e-4f91-48aa-89dd-ac3bd75dd35a> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
