[quote=Krist]Hello,
Sometimes an albub gets released under different names in different countries.
For example: I have a flac rip of a record by Cecilia Bartolli that was released as “Arie Antiche: Se tu m’ami” in Europe, but as “If You Love Me: 18th-Century Songs” in the US. MusicBrainz has both albums in its database, with the correct information.
The songs are inconsistently tagged, and I want to correct that using Jaikoz, So I let Jaikoz update the tags from MusicBrainz.
My problem is that on this album Jaikoz tags some tracks as if the were part of the European release, some other tracks as if they were part of the US release (thus with different album name) and some tags are not processed at all (album stays empty)
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I appreciate your predicament but it seems you are saying you have an albums worth of tracks in a folder but some have metadata that corresponds to the US release and osme have metadata that corresponds to the Europe release. Then you want Jaikoz to autocorrect these tags from Musicbrainz dismissing the existing metadataand preferring to simply use the foldername to get the best match. You must realize that in most cases the metadata is more accurate than the foldername, and often users have a folder that contains many unfixed Songs so it would be madness to assume they were all in the same folder.
With a little manual input on your part you could get round this issue, ‘Correct Tag from filenames’ might help standardize the metadata, or you could copy and paste the key fields (artist,album) so all tracks have the same basic info, then Jaikoz would normally pick the same album for all tracks.
This is a different issue, firstly there is the problem of not being able to please everybody all of the time. Some users would like to use the earliest release that a track was on, even if there track actually came from a compilation, others would like to keep the compilation it was on. By default Jaikoz errs towards the first case you need to tick Compilation on the 'Preferences/Musicrbainz/Match/Prefer releases of the Following Type ’ option.
Secondly the compilations are less likley to be in the Musicbrainz database than original releases. Some long standing artists such as Johnny Cash or Frank Sinatra have so many compilations that with each new compilation released the interest in submitting to MB dwindles.