I’d doing well associating ripped discs with their matching Musicbrainz releases and merging them into my library. Where I’m struggling is with other music I’ve collected in the past where I don’t know the label or catalog number. I can find a release with the same number of tracks that has the tracks in the same order, but there might be 10 different releases that could match what I have. I don’t like the idea of associating tracks of unknown heritage with a release, and would prefer just to not associate it at all. Any way to tell this to Picard so it still merges it into my library using the tagging and naming scripts, but not adding a MBalbumID association? How do you all manage this aspect of it?
I almost always know the source of my files, but on the odd occasion that I don’t I guess I just pick the most likely one, or the digital one…
But it should be pretty simple to ‘disassociate’ from specific releases:
A tagger script with this in it:
$unset(musicbrainz_albumid)
Will make it so no ‘release’ MBID is assigned, while still attaching recording and release group ID’s.
If you want to scrub everything specific-release related (I’ve probably missed something), maybe:
$unset(musicbrainz_albumid)
$unset(releasecountry)
$unset(releasestatus)
$unset(label)
$unset(catalognumber)
$unset(media)
$unset(date)
$unset(asin)
$unset(barcode)
$unset(musicbrainz_discid)
$unset(discid)
$unset(musicbrainz_releasetrackid)
Unless your player/media center requires the release MBID’s or some of those other tags then I think you’d be good to switch that script on for ‘unknown’ releases.
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