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ROpdebee / mb-userscripts

Collection of userscripts for MusicBrainz
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Idea: fill track lengths from Bandcamp #583

Closed rigrig closed 2 years ago

rigrig commented 2 years ago

Sometimes albums are added to MusicBrainz while only available for pre-order on Bandcamp. In those cases not all track lengths are available yet, so they need to be filled in later when the album becomes available. Example edit

The only two ways I've found to do this are

  1. Fill in all times by hand -> tedious (and times as listed on Bandcamp often seem to be off by a second)
  2. After downloading the album, use a Picard plugin to export the tracklist and use the track parser -> this also overwrites titles, which usually means the capitalization needs fixing (again).

It would be nice if the Tracklist tab for releases with a Bandcamp page had a button to "Fill missing lengths from Bandcamp" (And similar for other sources I guess)

kellnerd commented 2 years ago

I'm using the Time Parser feature of https://github.com/jesus2099/konami-command/blob/master/mb_SUPER-MIND-CONTROL-II-X-TURBO.user.js to alter only the track lengths but not the track titles. It's not specifically for Bandcamp, you can feed it any text blurb which contains track lengths.

Or I simply wait until the tracklist on Bandcamp is complete before I do the import, but that does not help if someone else already imported the incomplete tracklist.

ROpdebee commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! However, I'm going to close this issue since the script mentioned by kellnerd above already provides a reasonable solution to this. If you still think a button should be added to the Bandcamp page, I suggest opening a new issue in https://github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-userscripts, where the Bandcamp importer lives, as in my opinion, it makes more sense to include such a feature in that userscript instead of creating an entirely new one.