[quote=paultaylor]There have been a few posts about this issue so I’m just going to summarise how I see it.
In Jaikoz 380 (beta) if you set Preferred Release Date to Earliest Release Date Jaikoz will normally match Jaikoz to the song with the earliest release date, but there are two cases where it will not.
- Your song is a better metamatch to a compilation
- Your song is in fact a later version of a song, different to the original song that you want it to match to, normally identified by having significantly different track length.
Currently you can get round <1> by setting Prefer do not Match to Various/Single Artist Compilation , there is no way to solve problem <2>
Going forward I have had the following requests.
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For compilations continue to match to the compilation track but put into the Year field the release year of the original song.
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For compilations continue to match to the compilation track but put into Original Release Time field (ID3 only field in current version of Jaikoz) the release year of the original song.
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Match all fields to the earliest song you can find even if track lengths dont actually match.
I don’t like (3) firstly because its just wrong for Jaikoz to match to a song that it knows is incorrect, and secondly because it could cause problem for Musicbrainz, if having matched to these songs you send Musicbrainz Ids/Puids back to Musicbrainz you are in fact corrupting the Musicbrainz database.
It turns out that normally people want <3> just to get the correct release year, so the best solution is <2> because then the metadata is perfectly correct and it gives you the information you require. <1> is not quite correct either although its not going to corrupt Musicbrainz, of course if you really want to put the original release year into the release year field you can do that easily in Jaikoz using Prepend to Left.
Technically finding the song with the earliest release date would take forever on the current version of Musicbrainz but with Musicbrainz NGS it is alot more feasible because the same track (known as recording in NGS) can be on multiple albums so quite easy to iterate through the releases to find the earliest release date. So if you do want to keep your compilation metadata you can then use this method to get the original release date. However when the track is a different version it will not be the same recording so we cannot use this method, but we could to a more exhaustive metadata search to find tracks with same name but different lengths if not necessary to do it for every track. We can also make use of track A is an earlier version of track B relationships within Musicbrainz, those there are fairly rare.
In the interface there would simply be another match option called Do extra searches to find original release , it would also complete the ID3 fields Original Release (which would become a field for all formats) . That way you are getting the extra information you want without losing any information.
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If I want to get the earliest release date found in the Original Year tag How do I proceed?
For instance “Hunting High and Low (remix)” from A-Ha
I did a CTRL+SHiFT+5 (Manual correct Metadata from MusicBrainz) and pointed to the 1985 year.
It was filled in correctly , but the question is can’t Jaikoz do this automatically for chosen songs?
I’m a pro license user but can’t find the Do extra searches to find original release
Kind Regards
Guy
