[Abcde-users] does musicbrainz work in 2.9.3 ???

[Steve McIntyre]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 03:01:34PM -0600, Alan W. Kerr wrote:
>OK, how is musicbrainz supposed to work in 2.9.3???  the same problem existed
>in 2.9.1 but not in 2.8.1.  So when was this changed and what was the change
>supposed to do?

The change went in over 2 years ago:

commit 381cfc54e7e4c406cc0d645427a6d8c60d4606e9
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 21 18:10:53 2018 +0000

    Add support for storing musicbrainz lookups at chosen result numbers
    
    Pre-requisite for the support for multiple lookup tools. Add the
    "--start N" command line option to tell abcde-musicbrainz-tool to
    start storing its results at cddbread.N instead of assuming
    cddbread.1.

and it was in the 2.9 release.

>line 2690 is:
>${MUSICBRAINZ} --command data --discid "${MBDISCID}" --workdir
>"${SOURCE_WORKDIR}" --start ${NUM_CDDB_MATCHES}
>
>${MUSICBRAINZ} resolves to abcde-musicbrainz-tool and the problem is the
>"--start" switch (because it doesn't exist in abcde-musicbrainz-tool).
>
>the error is:
>=====
>Unknown option: start
>Usage:
>     abcde-musicbrainz-tool [options]
>
>     Options:
>       --command {id|data|calcid} mode of operation (default: id)
>       --device <DEV>             read from CD-ROM device DEV (default:
>/dev/cdrom)
>       --discid <ID>              Disc ID to query with --command data.
>       --discinfo <F> <L> <LI> <LO> <TRK1OFF> [<TRK2OFF> [...]]
>                                  Disc information for --command calcid.
>       --workdir <DIR>            working directory (default: /tmp)
>       --help                     print option summary
>       --man                      full documentation
>
>[ERROR] abcde: abcde-musicbrainz-tool failed to run; ABORT
>=====

... but I forgot to update the usage text to mention the --start change.

>
>so, there's no --start switch... *HOW* has anyone gotten this to run???
>HOW has no one else noticed this???

I'm using this code every time I run abcde locally...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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