The default was 50. I set it to 100. Is a small or large number better for Picard’s uptime? I have a 600Mb connection.
It’s how many results Picard requests form the MusicBrainz web service per call. The maximum is 100.
It can impact request time and server load. And potentially it can have some impact on matching. Picard considers for a lookup only this many search results and tries to pack a best match from it based on metadata similarity. So theoretically it’s possible that the desired result is not in the first 50 results, but would be in the first 100.
For Picard then to actually pick it the metadata would also need to compare better locally then all other results, though.
See also MusicBrainz API - MusicBrainz
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