How do you do a Rescan?

[Chrispy]

I processed my songs and I saw I had a bunch without artwork, but had other metadata (most had a MB ID as well). Looking at them on MusicBrainz I saw they were grabbing Vinyl releases, which didn’t have artwork. I then noticed CD’s did have artwork.

In Preferences under Remote Correct/Match/Preferred media formats, I see I can select CD. Will this force the match to CD instead of Vinyl?

And if so, how do I rescan those songs which had already matched up to a vinyl release and are not showing anything for album art? After setting the pref to CD I tried to do an AutoCorrect, Update Metadate from MusicBrainz, and anything else I could think of. It’s as if the metadata is locked or something.

Note: I do have Pref/MusicBrainz/Format/Artwork set to Always replace values.

[paultaylor]

Hi,

Setting preferred media format will not force a match to CD but will boost the scores of matches of CD releases so they are more likely to be selected.

You need to uncheck

Preferences:Musicbrainz:Match:Do not match onlne if already has Musicbrainz Recording Id

or just empty the MB Recording Id column

[Chrispy]

Excellent, thank you! Worked better than what I had. I had been trying to clear out the MB Release ID field and hadn’t thought about the MB Recording ID field.

One thing which would be nice, is a “Clear” contextual menu item for when you want to empty the Musicbrainz Recording Id for just say an album or two. Right now I delete one, copy the empty field, and then paste it over the others.

Two odd things I’ve seen:

1. On a handful of albums, after an auto correct it wouldn’t show album art, but when I would do a View onLine and go up to MusicBrainz to view the album, it would show one on the top right, I just couldn’t get Jaikoz to download it. Is this because the art up on MB is a referenced URL and thus you can’t grab it (ex: http://musicbrainz.org/release/d32f1f88-5705-492d-8085-62164572482a)?
2. My Preferences/Manipulators/Autocorrector has Local Correct Year. My Local Correct/Year Correct has Store Year for what the Year should contain. When I run this from the menu, my years get changed correctly (i.e. mm-dd-yyyy to yyyy). BUT when I run an Autocorrect, they do not get updated. Do I need to run this last (or first) in the Autocorrect task list or will this mess up anything else?

Thanks!

[paultaylor]

One thing which would be nice, is a “Clear” contextual menu item for when you want to empty the Musicbrainz Recording Id for just say an album or two. Right now I delete one, copy the empty field, and then paste it over the others.

Hi, the Delete contextual menu item acts as Clear, maybe confusingly. (Whereas Delete/Delete File is for deleting the song itself). Also you can right-click on column and select Empty Column

1. On a handful of albums, after an auto correct it wouldn’t show album art, but when I would do a View onLine and go up to MusicBrainz to view the album, it would show one on the top right, I just couldn’t get Jaikoz to download it. Is this because the art up on MB is a referenced URL and thus you can’t grab it (ex: http://musicbrainz.org/release/d32f1f88-5705-492d-8085-62164572482a)?

Sometimes Musicbrainz links to Amazon images that cannot be accessed via their ASIN, as in this case.

2. My Preferences/Manipulators/Autocorrector has Local Correct Year. My Local Correct/Year Correct has Store Year for what the Year should contain. When I run this from the menu, my years get changed correctly (i.e. mm-dd-yyyy to yyyy). BUT when I run an Autocorrect, they do not get updated. Do I need to run this last (or first) in the Autocorrect task list or will this mess up anything else?

Hi, i think you need to run Local Correct Year after autocorect