Author Topic: Tagging Multiple Artists with Picard  (Read 10075 times)

psychoadept

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I'm getting very close to the holy grail I've been seeking since I started using MB: not needing to do manual retagging of multiple artists in MusicBee after running tracks through Picard.

vzell's Picard Plugin (http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0) inspired me to take another look at my Picard scripts and see if anything else could be done to make multiple artists work better, and what do you know?  It could!

Here's what I've got for now:

http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Tagging_Multiple_Artists_with_Picard

I am hopeful that some updates in the works for Picard will make it possible to do more sophisticated things with Performers, too.  Keep your fingers crossed.
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It's been a while, and I am curious, is there by now a solution to harvest the contributing musicians and their roles from MusicBrainz into Picard?


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Picard has always tagged them, and if you're tagging FLAC they will go directly into the performer tag.  For now, you would have to use a tool like the Tagging Tools plugin to copy them over.  (That's what I'm hoping Steven will fix with the classical enhancements.)

But again, you'll also have to find a way to reformat them because the ID3 standard, and consequently Picard, uses the format "role; artist", making them separate entries.  It is possible with some creative regex, I just gave up on it for a while because I had higher, less irritating, tagging priorities.
Last Edit: January 11, 2017, 03:19:27 PM by psychoadept
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I just gave it a new try (I gave up on Picard a while ago), and not one musician was added.
(trying the Steely Dan album from my previous screenshot)

Is some Picard plugin needed for this functionality?

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I just gave it a new try (I gave up on Picard a while ago), and not one musician was added.
(trying the Steely Dan album from my previous screenshot)

Is some Picard plugin needed for this functionality?

No, it should work out of the box.  Sophist's standardize performer plugin is useful for reformatting, though.

Try this version: https://code.oxygene.sk/musicbrainz/picard/builds/1384/artifacts/browse

If that still doesn't work, can you give me a screenshot of the bottom pane of Picard when you try to tag the file?
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Weird.  I'll take a look at it when I get home tonight, see if I can figure out what's going on.
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Actually, check your options and make sure you have "use track relationships" and "use release relationships" ticked: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/options/#metadata
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I have those ticked, no difference.
I also tried using the script you have on the Wikia, no difference.

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And you have "write tags to files" ticked under Tags?
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:-\  Curiouser and curiouser.  Well, I'll check it out at home for sure.  If we're still stumped, I'll try their forum.
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It seems to be a problem with this album.
I tried another album with a lot less musicians participating, and now it worked at once.
I'll see if I can put in some more time and effort in this, and perhaps find out why some albums work, and some won't.

Thanks for assisting!
I would have given up on Picard again otherwise, as I have done a few times before.

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Well, that's something anyway.  :)

If you did change any options, be sure to reload the album (right click + refresh).  It won't reload automatically when you change settings.
Last Edit: January 11, 2017, 05:11:03 PM by psychoadept
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Hi.

I just try your album.
With Picard 1.3.2 there is no "Performer" (musician)
But with Picard 1.4.0dev5 everything is there.

https://build.oxygene.sk/job/package-picard-win-daily/