Enable pulling an artist's discography from MusicBrainz #143

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wojtek · 2024-02-20T13:16:49+01:00

wojtek commented

2024-02-20 13:16:49 +01:00

A few notes:

Do not trigger it for all artists as rate limiting and the number of artists means it will take some time.
Make sure name clashes are handled gracefully and prevent duplicates from appearing due to tiny mispellings.
Things will still slip through so provide some way to manually correct for this. The MusicBrainz release group id is probably the strongest tool for this.
Do not pull absolutely all releases as some are just not that interesting (e.g. Live EP releases) - provide some mechanism for filtering. E.g., a checkbox list.
At the same time allow albums that don't qualify to still be visible - sometimes, a Single is interesting enough even if I don't want to see all Singles of a band. (perhaps the right solution for this is to give them the WISH status and treat that specially).
On the other hand some release groups may just not be interesting (e.g., re-recordings, or compilations) even when categorized under one of the acceptable categories. Provide some means to dismiss them (e.g., DROP status).

A few notes: 1. Do not trigger it for all artists as rate limiting and the number of artists means it will take some time. 2. Make sure name clashes are handled gracefully and prevent duplicates from appearing due to tiny mispellings. 3. Things will still slip through so provide some way to manually correct for this. The MusicBrainz release group id is probably the strongest tool for this. 4. Do not pull absolutely all releases as some are just not that interesting (e.g. Live EP releases) - provide some mechanism for filtering. E.g., a checkbox list. 5. At the same time allow albums that don't qualify to still be visible - sometimes, a Single is interesting enough even if I don't want to see all Singles of a band. (perhaps the right solution for this is to give them the `WISH` status and treat that specially). 6. On the other hand some release groups may just not be interesting (e.g., re-recordings, or compilations) even when categorized under one of the acceptable categories. Provide some means to dismiss them (e.g., `DROP` status).

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wojtek added this to the v1.0.0-alpha milestone 2024-02-20 13:22:14 +01:00

wojtek added this to the Album tracking project 2024-02-20 13:22:17 +01:00

wojtek commented

2024-03-09 12:14:07 +01:00

Split into multiple issues:

Create a MusicBrainz API library. musicbrainz_rs appears unmaintained, but can serve as a starting point. #158
Provide a keyboard shortcut to pull all release groups of an artist. Ensure the merge is as smooth as possible. Perhaps a popup window asking for manual input when it cannot be done automatically? #160
Add a filtering tool to only show only certain release group types. Ensure that it would be possible to extend with WISH and DROP statuses. #161

Split into multiple issues: 1. Create a MusicBrainz API library. [musicbrainz_rs](https://github.com/oknozor/musicbrainz_rs/tree/main) appears unmaintained, but can serve as a starting point. #158 2. Provide a keyboard shortcut to pull all release groups of an artist. Ensure the merge is as smooth as possible. Perhaps a popup window asking for manual input when it cannot be done automatically? #160 3. Add a filtering tool to only show only certain release group types. Ensure that it would be possible to extend with `WISH` and `DROP` statuses. #161

wojtek commented

2024-03-09 18:08:46 +01:00

Closing as it is now split into smaller issues.

wojtek closed this issue

2024-03-09 18:08:46 +01:00

wojtek removed this from the Album tracking project 2024-03-09 18:08:51 +01:00

wojtek removed this from the v1.0.0-alpha milestone 2024-03-09 18:08:57 +01:00

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