[mb-users] MusicBrainz-users Digest, Vol 58, Issue 33

[Simon Austin]

musicbrainz-users-request at lists.musicbrainz.org wrote:
> All Picard does is find a matching puid *if it exists*, and attaching
> it to the track. If there's no matching puid nothing will happen. To
> generate new puids you have to analyze your files, and to do that you
> have to use MusicIP Mixer or genpuid. Just download MusicIP Mixer from
> musicip.com and load up all your files. It might take 24h or so before
> the puids will be available, but at that point running them through
> Picard again should allow you to submit them.
>   
Er... doesn't Picard generate PUIDs too? I'm almost certain I've 
submitted many from it: http://tinyurl.com/5c8c7g

I did find that 0.9.0 sometimes would not assign and allow submission of 
track-PUID relationships under some nebulous circumstances. The process 
seemed to be that I'd stick a fresh CD in, get Picard to lookup the 
DiscID and either add the disc, attach it to a release or view the 
release it was already attached to. Then click the [tagger] link to load 
the titles into Picard.

Once I'd then ripped the tracks and got Picard to analyse them, if the 
PUIDs weren't in MB then dragging the whole cluster to the release 
didn't light up the Submit PUIDs button. I think I had more luck by 
expanding the cluster, selecting all the tracks and then dragging them over.

- Si