A multi‐source seeder for digital releases

MusicBrainz
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More stores/services I hope you can add:



I’m going out on a limb with these. Tidal was founded with the aim of giving artists more control, so they might not offer API access. The other two are Japan-exclusive, so the same issue is likely to come up (for different reasons).

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There are multiple unofficial Tidal API wrappers. Most of them were built with Javascript though:

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I keep getting an “internal server error” response every time I try to submit ISRCs using the link in the “complementary links” panel. I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end for that feature :confused:

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Doesn’t seem to be working at all today. Is the server down?

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NVM, seems to be working again.

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Hi, everyone. I have just uploaded some updates for the tool:

  • It now queries individual tracks for Deezer. It assumes that only the countries where all the tracks are available are the ones where the album was released. This may not be very accurate, so let me know if you think this is adequate or not.
  • It removes “(feat. …)” from tracks titles and add them to the artist credits with the separators indicated in the parentheses. The separators (besides “feat.”, “ft.”, and “featuring” are “, ” and “ & ”); this may be problematic if a featured artist includes “ & ” in its name.
    It also means that artists appearing in the credits but not in the title (e.g. remixers) will not be considered.
  • It is possible to use a url as parameter (e.g. https://etc.marlonob.info/atisket/?url=https://open.spotify.com/album/0KZsf82vQ6Yo59fgVjsF3Q). Useful for bookmarklets or to easily create a link to the tool without actually visiting it.

I hope that this changes don’t introduce new bugs, but if they do, please let me know (sorry my response time is not adequate, I haven’t had much free time lately).

This should only happen if there is (at least) one country that 1) is not available in any of the services 2) At least one of the services is licensed in. If you want to set it to [worldwide], it generally exists an option to “Set only to XX”, you may use that and then change XX to XW in the MB creation page. If I misunderstood, then please provide a url and a description of the expected behavior.

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It’s giving me this error message:

[Album] Imgur

Other than this, it works fine.

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Wow. Great work. Still must pay attention, but not any more so than the iTunes importer as far as track listing, i.e. some ETI omitted if after (feat. artist), etc. I have no idea how you do this, but I can’t express how much time this will save.

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Thank you marlonob for the Deezer update.

Here’s an example of limited release reported as [XW]: https://etc.marlonob.info/atisket/?cached=190295389284-d_118623542
208 is correct. But US isn’t one of the licensed territories for this release.

view-source:https://web.archive.org/web/20200109125646/https://www.deezer.com/us/album/118623542
<meta property="og:restrictions:country:disallowed" content="AN">
<meta property="og:restrictions:country:disallowed" content="CU">
<meta property="og:restrictions:country:disallowed" content="IR">
<meta property="og:restrictions:country:disallowed" content="KP">
<meta property="og:restrictions:country:disallowed" content="UM">
<meta property="og:restrictions:country:disallowed" content="US">

track level exception list: AD AN AW AX BL BM BS BZ CU DO FO GF GG GI GL GP GY HT IM IR JE KP LI MC MF MO MQ NC PF PM PR RE SH SM SR TF TT UM US VA WF YT

I think you compared total number of territories with a fixed number of Spotify in the code.

Thanks again for your excellent tool. It saves us years. I can help if needed.

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So the internal server error thing happened to me again today. I kept trying the same link over and over again over the course of four hours and kept getting the same error message.
I posted in the topic for the Spotify ISRC script about this, but I wanted to mention it here because I’m beginning to suspect something in this seeder is causing these errors (e.g. pythonanywhere is selectively blocking certain requests).

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What a good idea!

I was considering embarking on a small project for very similar reasons.

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Fixed. Thank you.

That’s one of the changes, the featured artists for tracks 6 and 8 only get registered because the iTunes release has them in the track title. I’ve got to figure out a better way to do this.

Thanks, fixed.

I think it’s fixed now. Also it seems that my list of Deezer available territories is incomplete.

Edit: It now uses the list in https://developers.deezer.com/guidelines/countries

The link provided by atisket is generic, I don’t think pythonanywhere knows its coming from this script, but from the IP address of your connection. You may try copying the link and paste it in a new tab, or do it manually using this schema for the url: https://tatsumo.pythonanywhere.com/album/[Spotify album ID] without the brackets, and then paste the MB release ID in the box at the bottom.

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Thanks @marlonob!
Just see another bug, video tracks aren’t detected like for this example where a-tisket give 17 instead of 19 tracks (2 bonus video):

https://etc.marlonob.info/atisket/?preferred_countries=fr&itu_id=1445315198&preferred_vendor=itu&search_itu_countries=si

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Durations over 1 hour aren’t being displayed properly.
See first track of https://etc.marlonob.info/atisket/?cached=8718857793595-s_4IjDYedM3v0ZTsNs25DEeM and last track of https://etc.marlonob.info/atisket/?cached=5054281460119-s_7i9Q8jw0lHFtCEZiiftqHR-d_9307228-i_948321525

They are being seeded correctly thankfully.

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Marlonob, I sent you an email last week regarding a way to improve the iTunes UPC lookup. Please let me know if you got it.

See more information in this forum topic here: iTunes UPC Database

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Yeah, it appears Deezer is actually available in more countries than they even list on the link I provided earlier. If you right click and view source on the deezer releases website, it will tell you where it’s NOT available. I just check there and then selected Worldwide only if there’s no countries that it’s not available, (with exception of AN, which shows on almost all releases as not available, which is no longer a country, even though rarely it does show up as an available country itself). Now that they figured out how to collapse the country lists (yeah!) there’s no reason not to just add all the countries unless it truly isn’t excluded in any countries.

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One more issue with track artist seeding.

This release has two release artists.
That is seeded correctly. But the track artists are both of them joined as one artist:
<input type="hidden" name="mediums.0.track.0.artist_credit.names.0.name" value="Balkonien Gang &amp; Berky">

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Just got the versa with this release, where Years & Years was separated in two artist :slight_smile:

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7digital support would be nice.

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I have a question regarding spotify artist uniqueness. This is important coz this tool uses spotify artist link for artist identification, so u dont need to enter them manually. It seems the spotify just combine artists with the same name under one “roof”. Here are some examples i encountered:


Some “old” artist combined with production music composer, which is probably couldnt be right


Again production music composer combined with John Stafford Smith, who is author of the USA national hymn, which ofc incorrect.

I suppose there are many more examples of this. I think there was a discussion about this in the spotify community, but the issue still remains so far:

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