[mb-users] Identifying tracks with no tags

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 01:16:01 UTC 2008


>> picard is still having trouble automatically matching the right
>> tracks once I've moved the files to the MBz release.  It seems like
>> it's only using the track lengths for matching.  How can I get the
>> fingerprint matching working?  I remember reading that I need to
>> upload
>> fingerprints from all of my CDs with some Windows-only MusicIP
>> software.  Is that the only thing to do?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> As far as I know, there is no fingerprint matching used, when you just
> drop the files to the corresponding release you found (i.e. with the
> DiscID) The metadata is used for the matching and there is a high
> weight on the track length.
> It should be best to check if the track number also matches then.

Is there any way to get picard to rely solely on the track number in
the file name for matching to the release tracks?  What if I change
the file names from split-track01.flac to 01.flac?

- Grant



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