Feature request: Scrobble with existing mbid tag

[jtpavlock]

beets, a popular music organizer, actually sets track recording ids under the tag MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID that you may be able to use to scrobble

[karaluh]

Thanks for the request, MBID scrobbling is something I would like to very much like to implement.

[jtpavlock]

It seems the musicbee api doesn't allow access to tags unless they're officially supported by musicbee. I bumped an old thread concerning this here

[karaluh]

That is correct. There is a workaround, however. Custom tags can be defined to make MBIDs available with the API, but this solution is not pretty.

I don't expect this feature to be implemented in MusicBee anytime soon (if ever) and I plan to use TagLib for this.

[Viktini]

I might have a look at tackling this as well. Would TagLibSharp suffice?

[karaluh]

Yes, it looks very good.

[Viktini]

Apologies for my past ramblings. I felt like it was just spam without the code, and I took March away from working on the changes for personal reasons. That being said, I've decided to finally implement this using TagLib#. Everything is available here, including now playing. https://github.com/Viktini/ScrobblerBrainz/tree/mbid-submit

Some things to point out:

• I had to bump the required .NET version to 4.6.2. TagLib#'s current minimum supported version on NuGet is 4.5, and I noticed in their commits that 4.6.2 will be the new minimum. This is the minimum for Visual Studio 2022, as well, for what it's worth, and MusicBee has bumped its requirements to 4.8 as of 3.5.
• Where I can, I was able to grab multiple MBIDs, however due to limitations and inconsistencies in the current stable version of TagLib#, this wasn't possible on M4A/MP4 (Apple) or WMA/ASF tags. I asked on the MetaBrainz board and they said it's fine to submit one artist MBID as long as recording MBIDs are retrievable, which on all tag formats supported by both MusicBee and TagLib#, it is.
• .NET 4.6.2 works on WINE, and so does the plugin with the mbid-submit code (tested on Arch Linux), albeit with some bugs. I wouldn't support this use case myself (being a Linux user) but, the fact it mostly works is nice.