A way to batch import data?

Freso · August 28, 2017, 2:53pm

If you can read code to some degree, you can look at what the plugin @dns_server talks about does here:

metabrainz/picard-plugins/blob/2.0/plugins/addrelease/addrelease.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

PLUGIN_NAME = "Add Cluster As Release"
PLUGIN_AUTHOR = 'Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen, Lukáš Lalinský, Philip Jägenstedt'
PLUGIN_DESCRIPTION = "Adds a plugin context menu option to clusters and single\
 files to help you quickly add them as releases or standalone recordings to\
 the MusicBrainz database via the website by pre-populating artists,\
 track names and times."
PLUGIN_VERSION = "0.7.3"
PLUGIN_API_VERSIONS = ["2.0"]

from picard import config, log
from picard.cluster import Cluster
from picard.const import MUSICBRAINZ_SERVERS
from picard.file import File
from picard.util import webbrowser2
from picard.ui.itemviews import BaseAction, register_cluster_action, register_file_action

import os
import tempfile

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Basically, it takes some data input and places it into an HTML form, which you can then submit to prepopulate the Add Release page/form. I copied a lot of the “addrelease” code for my Spotify2MusicBrainz script (for which you can also look at the code).

This same approach could be used for any organised data, like data in a spreadsheet. Just be aware that we generally frown upon fully automated imports. See e.g.: