[Abcde-users] comparing many cddb entries for a disc

[Bodnar, Jason]

Whenever abcde finishes I pull the tracks into Musicbrainz Picard and
lookup the release and retag as needed if the I picked with abcde was
incorrect. This also adds additional tags abcde does not support.

On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 11:43 AM Snild Dolkow <snild at dolkow.se> wrote:

> On Thu Mar 2 05:49:00 GMT 2023, Dave Laub wrote:
> > Louis' recent patch brought something to mind. I recently ripped the
> > album "Closer" by Joy Division, & was prompted by abcde to pick from
> > 10 musicbrainz listings (!). It turned out the differences were minor
> > (the release year a.k.a. DYEAR, and the comment indicating Disc
> > length). But I know for some other releases I've ripped, I've
> > encountered more significant differences & definitely had a
> > preference.
> >
> > That leads me to ask: when many releases are returned for a disc, how
> > do folks decide which to pick? Do you use your terminal window's
> > scrollbar to repeatedly scroll up/down through the long output,
> > trying to eyeball the best one? Do you rerun abcde and tee off the
> > output to a file which you then pop around in with your favorite text
> > editor, trying to determine the best entry? Something else?
>
> As a new user, trying to (re)start a CD collection and rip it all, I've
> just defaulted to picking the first option, unless I see some very
> obvious difference. If it turns out to be the wrong one (and the only
> way I have to detect that is getting the wrong cover art), I press ^C
> and `rm -rf` the abcde tmp dir.
>
> Trying to pick the right match for my wife's "More ABBA Gold" CD
> finally frustrated me enough to start looking for a better way to
> disambiguate, possibly by changing the script -- my idea was to show at
> least the year, and maybe a link to the DB entry. That's what brought
> me into the mail archives, where I found this email and necro'd its
> thread. :)
>
> The ABBA CD in front of me is dated 2008, and the four candidates are
> 1993, 1996, 2008, and 2014, so just having the year shown would've been
> very helpful in this case.
>
> As suggested in https://abcde.einval.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98 ,
> an indication that diffing entries is an option might also have been
> helpful in some past rips. I had no idea that this existed (and I will
> now immediately set DIFFOPTS=-y).
>
> ...and it turns out that the diff actually shows the year as well. Even
> more reason to document this feature's existence.
>
> >
> > What I've done lately is start another terminal, cd into abcde's
> > working directory, and then isolate the best one with this:
> >
> >     best=./cddbread.1
> >     for i in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'cddbread.*' | sort -t. -
> > k3,3n); do
> >          [ "$best" = "$i" ] && continue
> >          printf "Comparing $best to $i ...\n"
> >          diff $best $i
> >          printf "a or b? [abq] "
> >          read REPLY
> >          [ 'q' = "$REPLY" ] && break
> >          [ 'b' = "$REPLY" ] && best=$i
> >     done
> >     echo best is "$best"
> >
> > Does anyone see value in something like that? If so I'll write a
> > patch & submit it.
>
> Optometrist-style. Sure, that'd be more convenient than keeping track
> of the best-so-far myself and manually triggering each diff.
>
> //Snild
>
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