Re: [Banshee-List] Whats the purpose of musicbrainz related code in banshee?

[Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>]

I'm fairly sure that in addition to getting album art, MusicBrainz is also used for getting track metadata when you insert a CD.  It would be great to integrate a Picard-style metadata correction feature that uses MusicBrainz as its source, but so far no one has done it (that I know of).  The last.fm fingerprint extension is a good option, but I think it's only available to people with a last.fm account, and at this point it requires authentication once (or more) every session because Banshee doesn't store user login information in the keyring.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:13 AM, devicehandler <devicehandler gmail com> wrote:

Hi there banshee folk,

I was browsing through the code for banshee the other day, and came across
Musicbrainz code, forgive me for my ignorance. I would like to know what the
purpose of the musicbrainz code is, from what I could tell it is identifying
tracks, I am assuming this is for album art if so can it not also get
metadata?  I have a continuous gripe with linux music players on this one so
please be patient with me but I figure if its getting album art and doing a
good job 80-90% of the time why not have an option somewhere under
preferences where I can say update metadata with musicbrainz.  Last I heard
the last.fm api has issues so we can't have an autopilot way of doing this,
I know most people will recommend I install musicbrainz picard or another
such application though wouldn't it make the application (banshee) more
competitive if it had such a feature both for new users and existing users?

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