Tag files not in Discogs Tracklist with Album Information

[Emory Petermann]

Let's say for example I have the Japanese release of an album. Discogs only contains the US release. The Japanese release has a bonus track.

I would like to get the Album Art, Release Year, and other album level information that is still applicable to the bonus track, even though I cannot match the track with one in the Discogs List Box on the release dialog.

Perhaps a "Tag Unmatched Tracks with Release Information" option in the configuration dialog could be used to make this optional behavior.

This would also change the "Total Tracks" tag and possibly some other fields. Eventually this could be extended to automatically produce POST/PUT requests with the discogs API to update discogs with different versions of master releases when the track count is different (bonus trax).

[zoomorph]

You should go to Discogs, split the other version of the release, add the bonus track, change the label/format/country, and then the Japanese version will existing in the database. Then you and anyone else in the future can use that release to tag your files. :-)

Unfortunately, foo_discogs is never going to be smart enough to automatically contribute to the Discogs database when your release is missing from it... that job will always fall on the users.

[zoomorph]

While I can think of a few cases where the ability to tag files not in the Discogs tracklist would be useful, I think they all stem from laziness. Something is entered wrongly in the Discogs.com database (ie. missing sub tracks, header tracks used incorrectly, missing silent tracks, or completely wrong version of the release). I'd like to encourage users to fix the problem on the Discogs database. I think tagging files not in the Discogs tracklist would be a hacky solution at best, would be difficult to implement, and would only encourage users not to fix problems in the database.

[Emory Petermann]

Yeah, that seems right. I was kinda thinking that in the back of my head. I was just used to the Mediamonkey Discogs plugin that I contributed to a while back. Well what do you think about two more buttons in the interface? One that will allow me to go directly to the master (or in lack of master the release itself) for editing, and another more useful button for just downloading the album art to the current files directory?

[zoomorph]

I'm thinking about adding a DISCOGS_MASTER_ID and a context item menu to open the master release page.

There's already a function to just download the artwork, but your files have to have been tagged already. Is that good enough?