Why do i get could not load album msg for all my tracks

[zio_zi]

hi all,

I’m kind a new here (just install picard yesterdy) but i have tons of music on my computer, when i tried to do the magic that will fix my tracks all i got way that red cd symbol that tells me COULD NOT LOAD ALBUM

thanks a lot

[aerozol]

It means there’s issues with the MusicBrainz server… You can select them all and then right-click, and then hit refresh, and hopefully they will eventually load.

The servers have been having some issues lately unfortunately, you can check the blog for some updates, and there’s also a few posts about it:

Rate limiter has changed?

Continuing the discussion from Public Server Status Page available?: I feel that, recently, a few month, the rate limiter behaviour has changed. My user scripts (those that use the Web Service, not those that load normal web pages), began to get 503 errors although they fully respect the 1 request per minute very carefully. OK, once I was looking for reference for this post, I eventually fount out thanks to foo_musicbrainz forum that: XML Web Service / Rate Limiting / Global We allow throu…

State of things, Q2 2016

On some level I understand all the trouble MB is currently having (including server resources, search server, bugs, etc). Still from my perspective it seems like there’s no clear planning but almost like we are just waiting for next problem to arise. Most of the trouble shouldn’t have been a surprise. Now our editors are just annoyed with every update because while we get nice new features we usually keep breaking the old ones. (EDIT: Instead of fully removing this let’s keep this here as a rem…

And btw, Picard/MB is not magic!! (magical maybe, but still )
We highly recommend working with a backup of your files first, and testing your settings out on just a few albums at once. Picard WILL overwrite existing tags and rename things by default so please be carfeful!
Also, Picard will not be able to magically guess everything correctly, and you will have to do a bit of manual checking/ matching. Ten albums at once is probably about right.
There’s a few handy tutorials, but to start you off, you definitely want to hit ‘cluster’ before hitting lookup, and try lookup before using scan.
Have fun!

[zio_zi]

“It means there’s issues with the MusicBrainz server”

is there a chance i accidentally erase the server name?!
and if so what should it be?

[mfmeulenbelt]

The problem is with the server itself, so it’s probably not on your end. But you could check your settings in Picard to make sure. The server address should simply be “musicbrainz.org”.