Thanks for following up.

Yes, this is still a bug on Maverick with 2.6.35-24-generic and picard
0.12.1-0ubuntu1.

I haven't seen the login dialog mentioned by Philipp above, although it
could be that MusicBrainz no longer demands login details(?) Either that
or I have a cookie hidden somewhere on my machine, because incorrect
login details aren't triggering the issue for me any more.

However, if the server address is incorrect, the lookup fails without
explanation. The behaviour of the program in the case of a network
communication failure seems indistinguishable from its behaviour when a
song "fingerprint" can't be matched in the database. Needless to say
that's a recipe for confusion and frustration.

I admit there are messages flashing past on the status bar. One approach
would be to have those echoed to the log window, which is accessible
through the help menu. Some kind of attention grabbing alert that the
server is not responding would be even better.

Regards.

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