I'm not sure how well MusicBrainz would work at taking the existing file's metadata tags and improve them. When I've updated my own music using Picard, to get good results I've had to pass it a collection of music that is part of the same album and occasionally choose something other than its first guess. I'm inclined to use the tags in a file as is if they're available and just tell users to update the files tags if they think they're wrong.
We don't want a system where the mediascanner "corrects" the tags to the wrong release and the user can't fix it. On the other hand, if we have a file with no metadata tags at all, perhaps it'd make sense to make use of their AcoustID muisc fingerprinting system to look up metadata. I'm not sure how common this scenario is though, or how likely we are to get a useful match though. When I looked into this kind of thing 4-5 years ago, the open source services weren't anywhere close to commercial services like EchoNest (which has since been bought out by Spotify). Things might have changed since then though. I think MusicBrainz was on a different fingerprinting system back then, for instance. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mediascanner2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570335 Title: MusicBrainz integration Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in Ubuntu Music App: Triaged Status in mediascanner2 package in Ubuntu: New Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'd love to see the ability to download missing metadata for music from MusicBrainz (the Open Source equivalent of Sony's CDDB/Gracenote)... Either automatically, or on-request (by the user). Ubuntu for mobile devices is already very much an "online first" operating system and my understanding is that this is unlikely to change anytime soon, so it is reasonable to expect that MusicBrainz integration would have access to a data connection most - if not all - of the time. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1570335/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
