Hi… absolutely new here, and have read everything I can find in the FAQ, documentation, etc. about how to add Audiobooks to the MusicBrainz database. And… I am failing miserably. I’m especially miserable since I had this great idea I would catalog all of my 1,200+ audiobooks into the database.
So far, I have mangled my first attempt, and am unsuccessfully in trying to fix it.
I think I understand this:
Put first CD in Picard, have it scan for disc ID.
When it pops up that there is nothing for it in the MB database, click on the ‘find manually’ button in Picard.
Go to browser, and select add new release/release group.
Since this is Disc 1 of 38 discs, I use release name of the audiobook, with no number after it, as the release and the release group name.
Type in all the track and track title information.
Put in second CD in Picard, have it scan for disc ID.
When it pops up that there is nothing for it in the MB database, click on the ‘find manually’ button in Picard.
Go to browser…
and…
?
The first time I put in the second disc, I created a new release for it, typed in the 2nd disc’s tracks and track titles. Then, I made an edit in the first disc release, using ‘add medium’ then ‘add CD stub’. That seemed to work OK.
But then I read that I shouldn’t have made a new release for it?
So, when I put the 3rd disc of the 38 multi-disc, Picard scanned it, manual search in the browser, and then instead of creating a new release for it, I instead clicked on linking it to the original 1st disc,
This created a duplicate of disc 2, complete with duplicate track lengths, track titles, and duplicate disc ID.
And… I can’t fix it. Tried to remove it from the tracklist edit page… nope. Wouldn’t remove. Tried to edit the tracks and track titles and track lengths…nope. Wouldn’t accept any changes.
Decided to just go ahead and put in disc 4 and keep going (and just ignore the disc 3 duplication of disc 2). But… now disc 4 isn’t labeled as disc 4, it’s labeled as disc 3.
You see my problem
How do I remove everything except the first two correct entries, or how do I start over? I tried to fix by editing, but that doesn’t work. I tried to fix by removing the incorrect disc ID’s, but that doesn’t work.
Is there a step-by-step guide with pictures on how to do a multi-disc Audiobook entry (and hopefully how to include narrators, performers)? So far I’ve spent about 12 hours doing (or trying to do) 4 discs. I only have 1,200x15 to go…
Thanks kindly for your help – apologies if this question/topic is a nuisance, but I really would like to enter everything that isn’t in the database, and I’d like to be able to do it without too much hair loss
-Alys