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Not Matching Bandcamp Tracks

#1

Hello!
Used the Bandcamp function on an Untagged folder with 1722 x flac and dsf x39, after around 1.5 hours it had processed around 420 files, none of which were matched to bandcamp audio (cancelled at 1.5 hours as it seemed to stop, or was very slow).

Have resent support files.

Link to some albums (though many are singles, it turns out) that I confirmed are on bandcamp:

https://app.filen.io/#/f/660ae72a-a326-4534-b7f7-7fd0c4d4a67f%23674a5a653052427a646a38634a51386935444763766f4d4a3379776f6b655a7a

Maybe I’m doing something wrong, its the metadata (though it looks good) or my PC config.

Thanks

EDIT: I pointed SK to a folder I knew was on bandcamp and it doesn’t pick it up

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"Add to MusicBrainz" is finding 2 albums out of 500
#2

HI, looked at the first one, I can find the artist but not the Closer release, am I missing something?

#3

Okay I found it, it is a track on an album - https://christianloffler.bandcamp.com/album/until-we-meet-again

So this is the issue, unlike MusicBrainz and Discogs when matching to Bandcamp we are using their own very limited and slow api. And we find matches by searching for matching artists, and then browse each artists albums to find a matching album, and then match the songs in the folder to the tracks on the album, but we don’t do track searches.

We don’t do track searches because customers usually store their songs in album folders, and even if possible to do track searches it would just be too slow, Bandcamp matching is already significantly slower than MusicBainz/Discogs matching and this would make it even slower.

#4

Okay so that accounts for the first three Closer, Home and Melanchonia (https://tinlicker.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-of-the-machine) and also Three PathWays (https://shugorei.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-magic-mah-no-kioku)

I cant find Nascer

The problem with Silent Currents 3 (https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/silent-currents-3) is it is listed under a record label (projektrecords) rather than artist, currently we don’t support finding releases underneath a label but I am going to see if that is possible - https://jthink.atlassian.net/browse/SONGKONG-2920. The issue is we don’t usually have the label only the album title and searching only by album can bring back alot of similarly named albums which can take a while to process due to the limitations of bandcamp searching.

#5

Thanks for checking these!

So, for bandcamp releases to be found they should be albums linked to the artist, I guess.

#6

That is currently the case. Maybe I can do something with the tracks but it would help me to understand why they are in a track folder rather than an album folder?

#7

Actually, the issue isn’t so much that the track is in a folder named after the track rather than the album, the problem is the existing metadata has the Album field set to the Track Title rather than the Album Title, if this was set to the Album Title then it would usually match.

Now for artist on a regular label if they released singles from an album, each single would have its own release to match to. But maybe the situation is different with self-released releases on Bandcamp, when you say these were singles do you mean they were released as a single or that you purchased/downloaded just one track of an album?