Accoustic ID Scan has stopped working for all files

[fishnfool816]

Howdy everyone,

I have been using Picard for weeks now and love it. But all of a sudden yesterday the ‘Scan’ feature has stopped working for all files. I’ve even tested it on files that I have already cleaned up using Picard and I just see a flash at the bottom that says “No Matching Tracks for File …”. Lookup seems to work OK, but scan was the best. Any ideas on what to try?

[rdswift]

Wait until the AcoustID server is back up. See the discussion in:

AcoustID downtime

The AcoustID service is currently experiencing serious technical problems and will have to stay down for several day and some recent data will be lost. If you are user of the free service, I apologize for the inconvenience and hope that I’ll be able to repair the service soon, so that you can start using it. If you are a paying customer, supporting the open source project, you future invoices will be cancelled. When the service will be functional again, I’ll get in touch with you whether you w…

[Sophist]

Personally, I hardly ever need to use Scan. Usually there is sufficient metadata in the directory / filename for Cluster and Lookup to work. Sometimes I need to use Search for Similar Albums.