Can someone explain to me why you would upload to these places?
If you already get the info from them, why would you send it back?
Is is for new releases that don’t have a match yet? Or is it for things that you change, like the genre from “Other” to “Classic Rock”, or maybe typos or something?
I already have a MB account and I’ll be more than happy to add it to the AC if I knew what it did and it was helpful.
There are a number of different bits of information you can send back, but in almost every case the purpose of sending the information back is to improve the information in the database to help everone else (and yourself if you need to retag your files)
Submit Musicbrainz/PUID Pair checks your songs for ones that have a Musicbrainz Id and a Puid. These two pieces of info are keys into two different databases Musicbrainz, and AmplifIND. You get AmplifIND Ids from AMpliFIND by running Retrieve Acoustic Ids, if this Puid has already been linked to as record in Musicbrainz it gives you an easy match to Musicbrainz, if it hasn’t you have to find a match to Musicbrainz based on metadata alone, and if you havent got any metadata then you cannot do a match. So the purpose of Submit Musicbrainz/Puid is to link up the pairs for those songs that a metadata match was done , so in futures users with the same song can match just based on a puid.
Submit Musicbrainz/AcoustId Pair does much the same thing, but instead of submitting the pairing to Musicbrainz you are submitting them to a new fingerprint service called AcoustId. Unlike Amplifind fingerprints can be created locally and the service is more aligned with Musicbrainz. The intention is to use AcoustId in the future instead of AmpliFIND for matching songs, but to do that the database needs more songs, so please help.
Submit Genres & Barcodes add extra information to the MB Database.
Submit Ratings allow you to use your ratings to rate the songs on Musicbrainz.
Submit New Release makes it easier to add a new release by pre-entering all the information for you.
Add/Remove Collection lets you use Musicbrainz Collection feature to upload a list of your Music Collection. This is more of use to yourself then other users at the moment.
[quote=paultaylor]There are a number of different bits of information you can send back, but in almost every case the purpose of sending the information back is to improve the information in the database to help everone else (and yourself if you need to retag your files)
Submit Musicbrainz/PUID Pair checks your songs for ones that have a Musicbrainz Id and a Puid. These two pieces of info are keys into two different databases Musicbrainz, and AmplifIND. You get AmplifIND Ids from AMpliFIND by running Retrieve Acoustic Ids, if this Puid has already been linked to as record in Musicbrainz it gives you an easy match to Musicbrainz, if it hasn’t you have to find a match to Musicbrainz based on metadata alone, and if you havent got any metadata then you cannot do a match. So the purpose of Submit Musicbrainz/Puid is to link up the pairs for those songs that a metadata match was done , so in futures users with the same song can match just based on a puid.
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Gotcha. Now, I thought that this was available in AC, but now I see it’s not. Does this happen automatically if you have MB user/pass entered in Prefs? Is there a reason not to do this all the time? I assume nothing is sent if a pair doesn’t exist.
I’ve been doing that with the separate fingerprinter, and I didn’t even realize it was built into Jaikoz. Is there also a way to make this automatic? I still run the fingerprinter occasionally, but I predict that I will get lazy and forget eventually. I have upped my 600k-plus track collection, though.
Is this for extremely new releases, the one that don’t match yet? I’ve come across this several times, but usually i just wait until it shows up. I’ll play with it.
Thanks for all the info Paul. So far I’ve been just “taking” (with the exception of the fingerprinter). This was out of ignorance of the tools, now I’ll do what I can.
[quote=dkoh]Gotcha. Now, I thought that this was available in AC, but now I see it’s not. Does this happen automatically if you have MB user/pass entered in Prefs? Is there a reason not to do this all the time? I assume nothing is sent if a pair doesn’t exist.
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It isnt in Autocorrecter, it could be although you would need to have a MB username and password to use it. I suppose I was relunctant to put it in because I didnt want you to accidently send data you were not happy with, I wanted users to be sure they were happy with their data. But its only mappings, I think it would make sense to add to the autocorrecter.
Only added in Jaikoz 4.0, definently makes sense to add this to the autocorrecter, thanks for the data you’ve already submitted.
Well any release that isn’t in Musicbrainz, there are many older releases that havent made it to Musicbrainz yet.
Ha! So I just did my first add in MB - Hank Williams III - Hillbilly Joker, saved it, AC’d my Hillbilly Joker folder, and updated the PUID pair.
Ahhh… the circle is complete.
Well, kinda. I don’t have all the barcode/cat no. stuff for this release, and I haven’t done anything in Discogs yet.
But hey, baby steps. Just when I felt comfortable with Jaikoz, I turn around and there’s a whole 'nother pile of doors I haven’t tried.
Thanks again.