For those not checking the listenbrainz community, I made a cli app with a bunch of tools for listenbrainz. While Alistral is mostly meant for Listenbrainz usage, I’ve decided to add some Musicbrainz focused commands there as it’s easier than making a second app for now.
This thread will only be for the Musicbrainz side. To see the listenbrainz side, click here
The only command right now is musicbrainz clippy. This tool check for missing field or errors on musicbrainz, and will display ways to fix it. Right now, there’s only two lints implemented:
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missing_work: Search for recordings that have no works associated to them. All recordings should have works, so this is pretty mindless
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missing_release_barcode: Search for releases that have no barcodes, nor have “This release has no barcode” checked. It can be just a lack of info, but in cases where it can be found, it’s useful to see.
This is heavily inspired from rust’s own clippy, which is a god send for spotting small mistakes. Although it can still make mistakes! Please double check before doing your edits.
More will come as I implement it, but most lints I got planned need more work on the caching side.
Download it here
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Almost all recordings 
It’s not clear whether improvisations for example should have works, and I guess the same could be said about field recordings.
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Oh. I was under the impression that that every recording could have a work (and probably aint the only one). I’ll change the description to add those two cases.
Release v0.4.2
Clippy
Added whitelist (-w) and blacklist (-b) flags. Add a list of lint names after it to whitelist/blacklist them. It can remove some of the more pedantic lints cough missing work cough
Added colors to the type of lints
Lints
Added suspicious_remix lint. This warns when a recording looks like a remix (or VIP) and prompt to add a “remix of” and “remixer” relationship
Added missing_remixer_rel when a remix lacks a “remixer” relationship
Added missing_remix_rel when a remix lacks a “remix of” relationship
Added soundtrack_without_disambiguation for soundtracks works that have no disambiguation, which is required by the style guidelines
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Release v0.5.0
You can now set a custom URL for the musicbrainz server in the config file.
New lints should appear soon now that I can have a test environement
Builds are roasting, and will be available soon
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Release v0.5.9
- Greatly sped up lint checking when the entities are cached. However this has the disavantage of only refreshing the data if a lint get triggered on the cached data.
- Added
dash_eti lint. This checks of ETIs that are formated with a dash instead of parenthesis. Ex: “KRUSH TO KILL - sped up => KRUSH TO KILL (sped up)”
Builds are slow cooking, and should be available soon
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Release v0.5.11
Not providing a start MBID will now use your Listenbrainz listens as a starting point. So if you just want to let loose on your listens, just do alistral musicbrainz clippy
Lints
Lints now have a documentation page! Feel free to take a look (It’s not complete but shhh)
https://rustynova016.github.io/Alistral/clippy/lints.html
- label_as_artist: check if an artist credit is referring to a label set as article, and prompt to remove it
- missing_artist_link: Check if an artist has missing artist page urls, and link to harmony to add them
- missing_recording_link: Check if a recording has missing track urls, and link to harmony to add them
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