Seems to me that it would be trivial to use the muzicbrains api to tag and sort all the music directly in banshee.
On Nov 12, 2010 11:15 AM, "Michael Martin-Smucker" <
mlmartin13 gmail com> wrote:
> I think the bug report for MusicBrainz metadata correction is (*cough* was
> *cough*) this one:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523423 I just
> closed it yesterday, based on a logical-sounding comment stating that the
> new Last.fm fingerprinting essentially does the same thing.
>
> As far as I know, though, Picard doesn't use "fingerprinting" to find
> matches. It just searches through the MusicBrainz database for metadata
> that closely matches your metadata and offers to fill in any gaps that you
> have. Maybe this feature is still wanted?
>
> I thought I remembered reading somewhere that using MusicBrainz to fix
> metadata wasn't desirable because of the extra extra load it would put on
> the MusicBrainz servers, but I could be remembering wrong, and since Picard
> is doing it, I don't see why it would be much worse for Banshee to do
> something similar.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Samuel Gyger <
samuel gyger at> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:40,
gnomeuser gmail com <
gnomeuser gmail com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 2010/11/12 Jensen Somers <
jensen jsomers be>
>> >>
>> >> If you lurk on the Banshee IRC channel you will often see people
>> >> recommend Picard to tag your music from the musicbrainz database. If
>> >> that's properly done all the ID3 information will be correctly set and
>> >> thus interpreted by Banshee.
>> >
>> > Do we have a feature request for adding this to Banshee, it sounds like a
>> > useful second option to the already awesome
last.fm plugin which seems
>> to do
>> > the same job?
>>
>> Last.FM doesn't tag the music or? (maybe I missed something). I think
>> it would be something that should be first developed in BCE and
>> perhaps moved afterwards.
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