For some releases I’d like to copy the annotation on a release into the comment tag of the file in Picard. For example, this release on musicbrainz:
Has the tracklist in the annotation and I’d like to be able to have that added as the comment on the mp3 I have of it. I’d tried to google around and also searched the forums here and the read through docs on picard, but I don’t see any mention of the Annotation being available in picard. Is that right? If so if there a relatively easy way to get it instead?
As far as I know this is not currently possible because the annotation text is NOT part of the Webservice response from Musicbrainz. I am not even sure whether the annotation is accessible via a webservice call at all.
I guess it is always possible for you to write an album metadata plugin that either makes another webservice call or screen-scrapes the release web page to get the annotation.
It was simple enough to add without any implications and I think just makes sense
Just to also to have this noted here: This was easy to support for the release annotation. Not so much for e.g. recording, release group or artist annotation. This would require either a change to the web service or additional requests. If this is wanted I would for now recommend having a plugin for this.