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

[Paul Jarvis]

Simon Austin wrote:
> 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
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>   
Picard reads and retrieves PUIDs, but doesn't CREATE them.  In other 
words, the PUIDs have to be created/generated in MusicIP Mixer and added 
to the PUID database, which MBz then uses and attaches them to specific 
tracks.  If there is no PUID in the MusicIP database then Picard can't 
analyse and successfully assign a PUID to the track as there isn't one 
in the original database that matches with the audio file.  It's a bit 
complicated to explain but I hope that makes some sort of sense.
Paul.


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