Thanks, vgmdb.info looks useful. I don't know when I'll get around to writing a plugin, but it should be quite helpful.
I agree that the way MB does most of the metadata is better, but there is a significant problem. A lot of the things I want to tag are anime soundtracks and many are on MB, but VGMDB gives me more options for the track titles and artist names. After importing a good bit of my library with beets, MB only ever gives me one choice between Kanji, Romaji, and English as far as I can tell. Fairly often it's Kanji. VGMDB generally has at least Kanji and Romaji if not all three. I don't understand Japanese as Kanji or Romaji, but I can at least recognize song titles and artists more readily in Romaji. I've also discovered that when beets creates the file and folder names from the Kanji (because I am using asciify_paths I presume) it interprets it as Mandarin and uses the Pinyin representation. Katakana and such get treated as Japanese though leading to some names being a bizarre mishmash of Pinyin and Romaji. On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 3:25:42 PM UTC-4, François-Xavier Thomas wrote: > > There's an issue on musicbrainz-userscripts ( > https://github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-userscripts/issues/81) where they > mention vgmdb.info. It apparently exposes VGMDB info as a consumable API. > Someone still has to write a plugin for it, but it's there! > > (That being said, I use both MB and VGMDB on a regular basis and vastly > prefer MB because a) almost all albums I can find on VGMDB are also on MB, > b) I try to add those that aren't, and c) I usually find Musicbrainz > entries to be of a much greater quality : VGMDB stores per-track > information (aside from the title, track number and time) in the "notes" > section, which makes it far less useable as a data source for compilation > albums.) > > On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 3:32:47 AM UTC+2, Adrian Sampson wrote: >> >> We don't currently use it (or Freedb). But beets does support plugins for >> metadata sources. We have plugins for Discogs and Beatport, so if you're >> interested, I'd suggest starting with those as a template for a new plugin. >> >> On Jul 29, 2016, at 4:44 PM, Tanner Wigington <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have a large collection of anime and video game music that I would like >> to be able to add to my beets library. However, a lot of albums are not on >> Musicbrainz or Discogs, but they are on VGMDB. As far as I can tell, beets >> doesn't have any option or plugin to connect to VGMDB. I was able to find >> that VGMDB does have a <http://goog_2042596976>freedb emulation >> provided: http://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2618. I don't know >> how I would connect this to beets though, and my results using other >> tagging software were worse than Musicbrainz or Discogs even for things >> I know are on VGMDB. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "beets" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
