Confused about the Wikidata plugin

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@Pha3drus

I’m curious about what it’s actually pulling though. The best I can tell, It’s pulling the genres associated with the artist. Is that what it’s supposed to do? I was hoping for the genres associated with the album in Wikidata.

Currently it pull’s genres from all attached wikidata sources, including the recording, work, album and artist. I agree it would be nice to be able to configure it, though.

@Pha3drus

On a related note, is there a way to pull the genres from the MusicBrainz database from the MusicBrainz_releasegroupid? That’s the data I really want.

You can enable using the genres from MusicBrainz in the options by checking Metadata > Use folksonmy tags as genre. You can fine tune it in a separate options page under Metadata > Folskonomy tags. Due to a bug in the MusicBrainz server this currently can only use tags directly on the release, though.

Note: The options here will change slightly with the next Picard release. Since the MusicBrainz server gained some knowledge about which tags are considered genres we have updated Picard to use these. The main difference is that the options page will now be called Genres and that you can separately enable to use only the genres from MusicBrainz.org or optionally still use all provided folksonomy tags.