MusicBrainz Integration - Beta
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:50 am
Further to my earlier posts re classical music enhancements and MusicBrainz integration, I have completely revised my approach to classical music tagging to build it around MusicBrainz. A complete description of the approach can be found on my website here:- http://music.highmossergate.co.uk/index.php. Central to this approach (apart from Muso of course) is my plugin for MusicBrainz Picard - "Classical Extras". Once Picard has been installed, you can download the beta version of the plugin from here:- https://github.com/MetaTunes/picard-plu ... extras.zip. Please read the Readme at https://github.com/MetaTunes/picard-plu ... /Readme.md before using it.
The net effect is to make the rich metadata available in MusicBrainz (and not currently fully utilised by any other tagging software that I am aware of) available to players/library managers and in particular to Muso.
IMHO Muso still has the best and richest interface for classical music and "Classical Extras" takes full advantage of this.
The screenshot below shows how works are pulled in from MusicBrainz and text from MB's "canonical" works database is combined with track titles to give fully descriptive titles. All of this can be done (if required) without any Muso import actions as the plugin gives a tag mapping capability. (In practice I use a few import actions, but that is personal preference). Exactly what elements are displayed is customisable using a User Interface in the plugin. The plugin handles multiple work levels and pulls in all data for performers (and also conductors, arrangers, leaders, chorusmasters and more):- There is a link on the Muso page to take you directly to the MusicBrainz listing, e.g. Assuming the release is properly listed in MusicBrainz, absolutely no "manual" tagging is required - just rip the CD (if necessary) and look it up on MusicBrainz using Picard + "Classical Extras". Save it and import to Muso
I encourage people to become MusicBrainz editors to deal with the cases where the release is not listed or needs improvement. It isn't a big deal and means that others benefit (as well as providing a back-up in the cloud of all your tag sources).
I hope this helps any classical music fans (and maybe jazz fans too?) among Muso users and am happy to deal with any queries posted here.
The net effect is to make the rich metadata available in MusicBrainz (and not currently fully utilised by any other tagging software that I am aware of) available to players/library managers and in particular to Muso.
IMHO Muso still has the best and richest interface for classical music and "Classical Extras" takes full advantage of this.
The screenshot below shows how works are pulled in from MusicBrainz and text from MB's "canonical" works database is combined with track titles to give fully descriptive titles. All of this can be done (if required) without any Muso import actions as the plugin gives a tag mapping capability. (In practice I use a few import actions, but that is personal preference). Exactly what elements are displayed is customisable using a User Interface in the plugin. The plugin handles multiple work levels and pulls in all data for performers (and also conductors, arrangers, leaders, chorusmasters and more):- There is a link on the Muso page to take you directly to the MusicBrainz listing, e.g. Assuming the release is properly listed in MusicBrainz, absolutely no "manual" tagging is required - just rip the CD (if necessary) and look it up on MusicBrainz using Picard + "Classical Extras". Save it and import to Muso
I encourage people to become MusicBrainz editors to deal with the cases where the release is not listed or needs improvement. It isn't a big deal and means that others benefit (as well as providing a back-up in the cloud of all your tag sources).
I hope this helps any classical music fans (and maybe jazz fans too?) among Muso users and am happy to deal with any queries posted here.