Getting too few metamatches with MB

[matslun]

Have been running Jaikoz for a week now - trying to optimize all parameters before I do my first full run on the collection… (By the way, it’s a really nice app!)

One interesting aspect is that I seem to get too few matches with MB when looking up albums/releases. Due to historical naming and tagging I have additional information added to a lot of my files Artists and Titles fields, within parenthesis, like “Title (Remix X)”, “Artist X (featuring Artist Y)” etc. If I remove the parenthesis and rerun the remote correct, I get the match! So my question is - is there some way to ignore everything from “(” to “)” when doing the lookup? Maybe as a “fallback” search when a search with the full string fails?

/ml/sweden

[paultaylor]

That is a good idea for a refinement to the jaikoz autosearching algorithm, but it doesnt do it currently.

In the meantime make sure that you do Retrieve Acoustic Ids before matching from Musicbrainz, this gives you a reasonable chance of matching even if your metadata is completely different.

Also, you could try using the (semi-automatic) Manual match from Musicbrainz, you might find that Jaikoz is finding the right tracks but they are just not geeting a high enough score to get automatically matched.

[matslun]

I checked a little bit more what was wrong, and indeed, the acoustic ID process must somehow have stopped half way - as my first 700 tracks have acoustic IDs but then I only get timeouts. (I wrote a question about this in the “Issues” forum…

Regarding the problem with my extra info, a workaround that seems to work good enough for me to get matches from metadata is to enter more words in the “Match-remove-list”, like “remix” and “featuring”… But first on my list to fix is to get the acoustic IDs working for all my files!

/ml