I think this issue should be closed. This was reported for a very old release and is definitely working in the 2.x releases.
If this should be still an issue for anyone this should be brought upstream. Philipp On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:29:58 +0200 Johannes Rohr <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: picard > Version: 1.0-1 > Severity: normal > > Lately, picard has trouble downloading album data. After dragging some music files (generated and tagged by sound-juicer) to the window on the right, picard instead of displaying the album title displays "unable to load [MBID]" > > Below is an error message from the console: > > E: 140379710048000 21:22:54 Network request error for http://musicbrainz.org:80/ws/2/release/e3f2c3d7-d289-4796-8b4e-407692dea96f; e3f2c3d7-d289-4796-8b4e-407692dea96f?inc=release-groups+media+recordings+puids+artist-credits+artists+aliases+labels+isrcs+artist-rels+release-rels+url-rels+recording-rels+work-rels: Error downloading http://musicbrainz.org:80/ws/2/release/e3f2c3d7-d289-4796-8b4e-407692dea96f;%20e3f2c3d7-d289-4796-8b4e-407692dea96f?inc=release-groups+media+recordings+puids+artist-credits+artists+aliases+labels+isrcs+artist-rels+release-rels+url-rels+recording-rels+work-rels - server replied: Bad Request (QT code 299, HTTP code 400) > E: 140379710048000 21:22:54 u'Error downloading http://musicbrainz.org:80/ws/2/release/e3f2c3d7-d289-4796-8b4e-407692dea96f;%20e3f2c3d7-d289-4796-8b4e-407692dea96f?inc=release-groups+media+recordings+puids+artist-credits+artists+aliases+labels+isrcs+artist-rels+release-rels+url-rels+recording-rels+work-rels - server replied: Bad Request' > > When I look up the album directly on the musicbrainz website instead and click the "tagger" icon, picard retrieves the album data just fine. > > This doesn't happen with every music file, but with many if not most of them. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (250, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages picard depends on: > ii libavcodec53 7:0.10.3-dmo1 > ii libavformat53 7:0.10.3-dmo1 > ii libc6 2.13-35 > ii libdiscid0 0.2.2-3 > ii libfftw3-3 3.3.2-3 > ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-2 > ii libofa0 0.9.3-5 > ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-2 > ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 > ii python-mutagen 1.20-1 > ii python-qt4 4.9.3-4 > ii python2.7 2.7.3-3 > > picard recommends no packages. > > picard suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > >
