Album not identified ?due to lack of album artist in MBZ search?

[ginjaninja 533]

Version 3.0.5459.41325

 

I wondered why MB3 could not identify an album correctly.

the logs suggests MB3 is not searching MBZ specifically enough

2014-12-13 15:55:28.2005 Info - App: HttpClientManager GET: http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query="Heroes" AND artist:""

Adding the Album Artist from ffprobe on track1 (is this what mb3 uses for album searches?) into the search, the album is identified and the distinct xml returned.

D:\ffbrobetest>ffprobe.exe -i file:"\\Q6600\Music\Willie Nelson\(2012) Heroes\01
. A Horse Called Music.mp3" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams
-show_chapters -show_format
ffprobe version N-67521-g48efe9e Copyright (c) 2007-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Nov 11 2014 01:15:40 with gcc 4.9.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-av
isynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enab
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enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-lib
modplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrw
b --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinge
r --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --en
able-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis
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{
Input #0, mp3, from 'file:\\Q6600\Music\Willie Nelson\(2012) Heroes\01. A Horse
Called Music.mp3':
  Metadata:
    album           : Heroes
    artist          : Willie Nelson;Merle Haggard
    album_artist    : Willie Nelson
    copyright       : catz
    MusicBrainz Album Status: official
    genre           : Country
    compilation     : 1
    TMED            : CD
    TORY            : 2012
    publisher       : Legacy
    title           : A Horse Called Music
    track           : 1
    MusicBrainz Album Release Country: GB
    artist-sort     : Nelson, Willie with Haggard, Merle
    TSO2            : Nelson, Willie
    SCRIPT          : Latn
    MusicBrainz Album Type: album
    MusicBrainz Album Artist Id: 668fd73c-bf54-4310-a139-305517f05311
    MusicBrainz Artist Id: 668fd73c-bf54-4310-a139-305517f05311/deb2448c-6fdf-4d
31-921e-757630515dbd
    BARCODE         : 886919604825
    CATALOGNUMBER   : 88691960482
    MusicBrainz Release Group Id: f5563f75-d4fe-42a9-9649-7462641a2ce6
    MusicBrainz Album Id: 5f184459-abaf-46a3-b4b7-299333eda118
    date            : 2012-05-14
  Duration: 00:04:37.37, start: 0.025057, bitrate: 320 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16p, 320 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : LAME3.97
    Side data:
      replaygain: track gain - -5.700000, track peak - unknown, album gain - unk
nown, album peak - unknown,
    "streams": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "codec_name": "mp3",
            "codec_long_name": "MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)",
            "codec_type": "audio",
            "codec_time_base": "1/44100",
            "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
            "codec_tag": "0x0000",
            "sample_fmt": "s16p",
            "sample_rate": "44100",
            "channels": 2,
            "channel_layout": "stereo",
            "bits_per_sample": 0,
            "r_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "time_base": "1/14112000",
            "start_pts": 353600,
            "start_time": "0.025057",
            "duration_ts": 3914219520,
            "duration": "277.368163",
            "bit_rate": "320000",
            "disposition": {
                "default": 0,
                "dub": 0,
                "original": 0,
                "comment": 0,
                "lyrics": 0,
                "karaoke": 0,
                "forced": 0,
                "hearing_impaired": 0,
                "visual_impaired": 0,
                "clean_effects": 0,
                "attached_pic": 0
            },
            "tags": {
                "encoder": "LAME3.97 "
            }
        }
    ],
    "chapters": [

    ],
    "format": {
        "filename": "file:\\\\Q6600\\Music\\Willie Nelson\\(2012) Heroes\\01. A
Horse Called Music.mp3",
        "nb_streams": 1,
        "nb_programs": 0,
        "format_name": "mp3",
        "format_long_name": "MP2/3 (MPEG audio layer 2/3)",
        "start_time": "0.025057",
        "duration": "277.368163",
        "size": "11099397",
        "bit_rate": "320134",
        "probe_score": 51,
        "tags": {
            "album": "Heroes",
            "artist": "Willie Nelson;Merle Haggard",
            "album_artist": "Willie Nelson",
            "copyright": "catz",
            "MusicBrainz Album Status": "official",
            "genre": "Country",
            "compilation": "1",
            "TMED": "CD",
            "TORY": "2012",
            "publisher": "Legacy",
            "title": "A Horse Called Music",
            "track": "1",
            "MusicBrainz Album Release Country": "GB",
            "artist-sort": "Nelson, Willie with Haggard, Merle",
            "TSO2": "Nelson, Willie",
            "SCRIPT": "Latn",
            "MusicBrainz Album Type": "album",
            "MusicBrainz Album Artist Id": "668fd73c-bf54-4310-a139-305517f05311
",
            "MusicBrainz Artist Id": "668fd73c-bf54-4310-a139-305517f05311/deb24
48c-6fdf-4d31-921e-757630515dbd",
            "BARCODE": "886919604825",
            "CATALOGNUMBER": "88691960482",
            "MusicBrainz Release Group Id": "f5563f75-d4fe-42a9-9649-7462641a2ce
6",
            "MusicBrainz Album Id": "5f184459-abaf-46a3-b4b7-299333eda118",
            "date": "2012-05-14"
        }
    }
}

D:\ffbrobetest>

http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=%22Heroes%22%20AND%20artist:%22Willie%20Nelson%22

 

is this an issue?

 

edit.

 

even if i provide the artist mbz or audiodb id (as known to MB3 for the album artist)  in the identify interface...the log still shows the same search url without artist..and i get 10 results for heroes by willie nelson..unable to distinguish between them..

 

the only field which helped on the identify interface was mbz album id

5f184459-abaf-46a3-b4b7-299333eda118

 

resulting in a different log entry...and a single result

2014-12-13 20:08:54.6303 Info - App: HttpClientManager GET: http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?query=reid:5f184459-abaf-46a3-b4b7-299333eda118

although now i am getting another issue..where the remainder of the ids are not fetched and no audiodb info is fetched...but the mbz album id is populated..

Edited December 13, 2014 by ginjaninja