Well, I just ran into my first big mess. Working backward through our CDs I came upon a “ZZ Top” Greatest Hits album. What a Music Brainz Mess!
It came up on 10 albums and clustering didn’t do anything because the Music Brainz data does not contain entries for most of the tracks on this greatest hits album. In fact, only one track ended up on the correct “Greatest Hits” album. I know some would prefer tracks to show up on their original album in the tags, but I don’t. I want the track to show up on the physical album I ripped it from. I probably already have the other albums, some, or most of them. When I look at my music in a viewer, I might see three copies of Gun Love, one from “ZZ Top”, one from “Viva Las Vegas”, and one from “Greatest Hits”. All the same. That’s fine.
So… Now I fixed this one. I had to do a lot of cut and paste. First part was not too bad, mass copy and paste in the table view. But when it came to the other stuff, MBz tags and such-like, lots of clicking-clicking-clicking… I’m hoping I wasn’t being stupid… I looked all over the place for a way to click on a track and then say “force onto album” and have it give me a list of the albums in my other 17 tracks and let me force this track (and even better a bunch of tracks) onto the album information of another track.
Did I miss a good way to do this?
Michael