Need help with two albums by The Chemical Brothers

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I’m interested in two albums by The Chemical Brothers:

from Discogs:

Confront Your Demons
https://www.discogs.com/release/3809433-The-Chemical-Brothers-Confront-Your-Demons

Brothers Gonna Work It Out
https://www.discogs.com/master/12777-The-Chemical-Brothers-Brothers-Gonna-Work-It-Out

In Mp3Tag they are visible after using Picard like this:

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In MB there is only the album Brothers Gonna Work It Out :
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/b297cf44-d9cd-3a5e-8129-5a0371b95f01

There is no “Confront Your Demons”, so where did Picard get the metadata for this album?

And can you split the songs from 5 to 15?

Artist link:

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I did some digging and this album “Confront Your Demons” is on MB.

But it is not visible on TCB home page.

Why?

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I’ve never encountered this before, but if you go down to the bottom of the page when looking at the Chemical Brothers page, you’ll see this:

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If you click the “Show all release groups,” you’ll be able to find the Demons release. I think it wasn’t appearing because both releases in that RG are marked as “Promotion” rather than “Official.”

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Thanks @Beckfield

MusicBrainz is like an unfathomable book. :wink:

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Our Scripting Saviour @jesus2099 has already solved this one.

https://github.com/jesus2099/konami-command/raw/master/mb_ALL-RELEASE-GROUPS.user.js

That adds “?all=1” to the end of the artist links to make sure you always see all of it. As a fan of bootlegs I find this is needed.

But warning - the search on the Artist page fails to respect the “?all=1” and it makes it hard to find the promos from there. (It used to work, and there is a ticket somewhere to resurrect the full search) You have to use the main site search if you want to find a promo\bootleg\etc

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Most people find it more convenient to only see official RGs. If you are looking for a specific release, you will find it: Search results - MusicBrainz (not even “advanced query syntax” necessary, in most cases)

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@ernstlx

This is what I found when there was no answer on the forum for a long time. :wink:

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But go to the artist page and search and surprisingly it is filtered

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I don’t use this search. Maybe you have to search all=1 first. It will probably search in the search results only.

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I always open the artist page with all=1 due to my love of concert bootlegs. Still don’t complete the search.

The only way to get the search results to work is to manually add ?all=1& into the URL after doing the search. (Or go to the main site search)

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In that image I typed the ?all=1& in myself and changed the previous screen shot to this one that finds the track.

This is awkward as I add a LOT of concert bootlegs and searching for them can’t be done from the artist page. :confused:

Site used to do a full search here. Currently it doesn’t.

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Then I would complain.
I would have expected it to search only in the found results - button says “Filter Release-groups” - but if all=1 was already set and is not used in the new search, that’s a bug.

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I don’t complain. They work hard enough as it is. There is a ticket in the system somewhere and one day the old search will return.

Until then I just forget, do a search, add a release, then realise it is already in the system :rofl:

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Yes, one day… :wink:

There are bigger problems, e.g. life problems.

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Which main site search?

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By “Main Site Search” I mean search box in top right corner. Type “confront your demons” in there and you’ll find every instance of it. Search on the artist page and you can’t find it as “all=1&” is missing from the search.

(I don’t understand enough of what else is in that search string to decode it)

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Aaaaah, you mean the release (group) Filter!

Well now I see!
I always felt I did not find everything, there.
I am always using address bar search shortcuts or DDG bangs (but they’re quite basic or outdated now) (with the redirect if only one result userscript).

It’s really a bug, indeed.
Filter should always search in all release groups. Or at least in those that are currently listed.

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If I knew how to search the tickets it is buried in there somewhere.

Re: DDG bangs - I actually use Vivaldi’s customised search shortcuts. So have “MBR” for MB Releases, MBA for Artists, and a “D” for Discogs searches. I have customised my search options so much with Vivaldi I actually get confused when sitting at someone else’s PC and realise they are missing such obvious features. :grin:

Just the other filters on the artist search page can be useful at times.

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