Missing track report

[Cr0nJ0b]

I just tried using the missing track report and it doesn’t really do what I thought it would do. It gives me a ton of false negatives. In facts, for the first 20 albums i tried I all of the albums showed at least one missing track, but the tracks listed were actually there. I’m guessing that this has to do with the fingerprinting or something. The track fingerprint for the song is differnt than the MB version or something? ANyway…it would be nice if you could have the program double check the track name against the tags in the folder to make sure that they aren’t just there. I’m not sure how hard this would be to implement but it sure would be helpful

thanks

[paultaylor]

The missing track report is looking at Musicbrainz Albums, so it highlights when you have songs that have not been tagged to a/the same Musicbrainz release as the other songs.

The idea is then you can correct the release they are linked to, and if you still have missing songs you then know these are really missing. I dont think your suggesstion would be that reliable, but I could certainly improve the report to make it easier to do what I outline above, the reports havent been modified for a couple of years.

[Cr0nJ0b]

Thanks for the response Paul. I think I get how Jaikoz works with the missing tracks feature. I’m wondering if there is a way to tweak it a little to make it more useful.

Here is the issue. I have a folder with a full album. All of the songs are there, I have checked them against another database and they are correct. Let’s call this Green Day American Idiot (appropriate). Now the MB ID for each song might all be correct for that one album but in this case, one song is identified as something else, let’s say greatest hits or euro release. Then the missing track feature shows that the album is missing this track.

Would it be possible for Jaikoz to interrogate the album name and check that against the album name in the tags for that folder? If that happened it would know that they were all from the same album. Then if it found that there was a title name that was not listed in that folder, but was listed in the MB database for that album, it would then show up. That way I wouldn’t see false negatives for every track…but only for the ones that were actually missing a track that MB knew about.

Maybe this is just too complicated to actually implement the way i’m thinking. An alternative might be to look at the track numbers listed in the tags and make sure that there are no gaps. So if it sees a folder with an album and tracks 1,2,4,5,6,7,8 it would at least call that out and say, “looks like you are missing something here”.

thanks again for the great work. I have about 120K songs and without the help of Jaikoz it would have been impossible to get everything straight.

I love the copy and paste function for art and genre etc.