MusicBrainz is the primary data source we use for matching releases, but it is likely there are a few albums we have that are not currently in MusicBrainz. The Add Album to MusicBrainz task makes adding these albums as painless as possible.
This task is free with SongKong Lite, no paid license is required.
This is how it works in summary.
The task goes through our selected folders(s) looking for folders that have not been matched to MusicBrainz but do appear to represent a complete release, so it should only be used after we have run Fix Songs or used another tool such as MusicBrainz Picard to match our songs to MusicBrainz.
Then for each album found we open a MusicBrainz Add Release tab in our web-browser seeded with the data from our album folder. It will continue to open a tab for each album found until hit the Max Number of Albums to Seed for Loading into MusicBrainz option limit is set. Once it has completed going through the selected folders it will generate a standard report
At this point we can then start checking each album tab ensuring that there is not a duplicate release already in MusicBrainz, make necessary adjustments and submit the new release to MusicBrainz.
We can then use Match to One Album to match our album to the album we have just created on MusicBrainz
Advantages over Other Methods
Other implementations of MusicBrainz release seeding from our songs require us to find the albums to add in the first place, and only work one album at a time so can be a slow and laborious process.
And these implementations do not make any adjustments to allow for Classical albums, and the differences in the style guidelines for adding Classical releases. SongKong calculates if the album is a Classical album and if it is makes additional adjustments.
Methods that add a release directly from a website such as Discogs require us to add a custom grease monkey script to our web-browser. And have the added disadvantage that the website may not record track lengths, whereas if we use our actual files we are always guaranteed to have track lengths.