Best way to import all releases from series into Picard?

I would like to import all the 100 releases from this series
d07661d6-34b9-4eff-b471-1a732f76d3a9
into Picard.

What is the best/easiest way to load all of them without 100 clicks on every release from 1 to 100?

Something like entering
series:d07661d6-34b9-4eff-b471-1a732f76d3a9
is not (yet) possible in Picard, right?

I tried it with “Cluster” and then “Lookup”.
Unfortunately, from the 196 Clusters


79 remains unrecognized. It’s not that obvious to me, why some clusters get recognized perfectly and others not:

The sort order for the detected releases also has a small problem:
An uppercase Letter in “of the” seems to influence to sort position in a alphabetically sort order (clicked on the “Title” column header on the right side of Picard):

Or is the comma after “Century” the reason in this case?
(I’m not sure, but the first recognized “Volume 3” has no comma after “Century” as well.)

First, I would not try to tag them all at once. I would do it with packages of 10 or maybe 20 releases.

Regarding capitalization/sort order: “Of” and “The” should be corrected according to capitalization rules. Other differences should be checked, but always be entered according to what is printed on the release.

For many of them, suitable releases seem to have been found for some tracks, but some could not be assigned. The respective volume appears on the left and on the right (clear, not yellow). You should compare and see why they were not found. There are probably differences between the metadata of your files and the data on MB (also check track lengths).

Releases that were not found at all can be imported into Picard after a “Lookup in Browser”.

1 Like