Harmony: Music Metadata Aggregator and MusicBrainz Importer

[kellnerd]

@afrocat

Earlier today I got a “checking your browser” message with a captcha when trying to access a beatport page. I’m assuming they enabled some form of protection against bots temporarily, since I can access the website just fine now.

That seems plausible, Beatport URL lookups are working right now

[wileyfoxyx]

Noticed that if choosing Russia (ISO code RU) when importing releases, the Apple Music region is being set as Argentina (AR) for some reason:

Example lookup to prove that: Продавец кукол – Harmony

[afrocat]

Works for me - Продавец кукол – Harmony
your URL has “&region=AR” so that might be the reason

[wileyfoxyx]

Not sure. The URL in the address bar for me says &region=ru, but in the permalink it is indeed &region=AR.

[sound.and.vision]

does Harmony support Spotify audiobooks yet?

[cinimod]

Can “stream start date” from Tidal be added to Harmony to extract the true release date when none other is reliable?

Current best practice for determining the date of a WEB release?

What is a good approach for determining the reissue date for when an album was posted on a WEB store? Often they curate discographies under the first publication of an album to make them simple to browse, and it hasn’t occured to them to learn from other databases that carry 2 dates. Sometimes a date can be extracted from other stores using Harmony or Xythium. But this does not always work when all of them only show the original publication. A likely year can be otained from the ISRC codes, tak…

[VBZPPlNQyJ]

I see that discogs has been added to Harmoney - thank you!

For an initial look, it seems much better for classical than the Discogs import script.

[HibiscusKazeneko]

FYI, Beatport is now implementing browser verification, presumably to stop AI scraper bots. This has caused Harmony’s import function to stop working. I fear nothing can be done at this point to make it work again…

[yindesu]

MusicBrainz itself is also verifying browsers for the same reason.

[HibiscusKazeneko]

@kellnerd Could this have something to do with this error message I’m getting in Harmony?
Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON

[VBZPPlNQyJ]

Is there a way to override or ignore cached values in Harmony? I am thinking particularly of times when it doesn’t reflect edits that I have made since first searching for a release.

Here’s one example: Complete Chamber Works of Carlos Chavez, Vol. 1 – Harmony still claims that there is no barcode associated with the release, even though I added it a few hours ago.