This step of the wizard displays the details for a single release.
Note that if all the files in the current selection already have a common MusicBrainz id, the wizard will open immediately to this panel. If you want to look for a different release, you can click on the New Search button.
The table at the top of the window presents the type of data which can be imported from the release. The importing of each item type may be enabled or disabled by checking or clearing the Import column. Setting the Import value to - implies that the field should only be imported if the associated value in a file is not empty. ie. current non empty values will not be overwritten. The value associated with some items can be edited inline. Yate will retain an item type's enable/disable state until you change it again.
If all the files in the current selection have a consistant Import Settings value (discussed below), those settings will be used as the import values. If that is not the case, the last used values will be displayed. Import settings are saved and loaded via The MusicBrainz Import Settings Manager.
Further import granularity is available on a per file basis by means of The MusicBrainz Exclusion Window which is activated via the Actions menu.
The following items may be imported:
- Album
- The name of the album.
- Album artist
- The Album Artist name.
- Album artist sort name
- The sort name of the album artist.
- Album artist URLS
- URLs linking to the Discogs webpages referencing the album artist(s). View these items in the User Defined URLs table with names of MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUM_ARTIST_URL.
- Album disambiguation
- This item specifies whether available album disambiguation information is utilized. A - value in the Import column is equivalent to ☑.
- Artist
- The Artist name.
- Artist sort name
- The sort name of the artist.
- Artist URLs
- URLs linking to the Discogs webpages referencing artists. View these items on the UD URLs panel with names of MUSICBRAINZ_ARTIST_URL.
- Artwork
- This item specifies whether artwork is to be imported. Any artwork item can be marked for import via the artwork display. The number of artwork items pre-marked for import is controlled by the Import all artwork option in Preferences - MusicBrainz. The field displays for each of the Cover Art Archive and Discogs artwork items, the number of loaded items, items with errors, items to be loaded. In the case of Discogs artwork, it may also display the time at which the next artwork item can be loaded.
- Artwork URLs
- URLs to reference each of the release's artwork items on the MusicBrainz site. View these items on the UD URLs panel with names of MUSICBRAINZ_ARTWORK_URL. Note that this item may also produce an item on the same panel named DISCOGS_ARTWORK_URL.
- Barcode
- The barcode associated with the album. This item is stored as a UDTI with a name of Barcode.
- Catalog number
- The catalog number. This value is placed in the Catalog field. It is the catalog number associated with the first label associated with the track.
- Catalog number (per label)
- The per label catalog number(s). These items are stored as UDTIs with names of MusicBrainz Catalog Number. The value field will be label: catalog number
- Composer
- The Composer's name.
- Conductor
- The Conductor's name.
- Country
- The full country name associated with the release. Stored as a UDTI with a name of Country.
- Cover art URL
- This item controls the import of a URL linking to the MusicBrainz webpage describing artwork associated with the release. Note that the URL is synthesized and that artwork may not actually exist. The URL will be stored to a UDURL named MUSICBRAINZ_COVERART_URL.
- Disc Numbers
- The number of the disc which contains a track.
- Disc Count
- The total number of discs.
- Discogs release id
- MusicBrainz releases often contain a reference to the associated Discogs release. This item controls the import of the id used to reference the Discogs release. The id will be stored to a UDTI namedDiscogs Release Id. If you double click on this field, or use the context menu, the Discogs wizard will be opened with the associated release. Due to the nature of the extraction, it is possible that a Discogs Master Id will be saved. If this occurs, the Discogs Release Id will start with the letter m.
- Genre
- This item controls the import of the genre. MusicBrainz does not typically contain genre information. If you wish you can edit this field to specify a genre.
- Import Settings
- The import/don't import/only if empty state is automatically saved each time the wizard is run. By default, the same values will be displayed the next time the wizard is run. You can elect to save the current values within tracks so that the next time the wizard is run, the same set of import values will be used. The settings will be stored in a UDTI named MusicBrainz Import Settings. You can also elect to save and restore named copies of the current import values. See MusicBrainz Import Settings for more information.
- Involved People
- Yate will attempt to extract all non musician (vocal or instrument) credits from the MusicBrainz data. This information will be displayed in the Involved People field. Note that where there is a dedicated field for a credit it will be displayed in the field (eg. composer).
- ISRC
- This item controls the import of a track's ISRC code.
- Label
- This item controls the import of the name of the label.
- Label URLs
- URLs to reference the MusicBrainz webpages referencing labels. The URLs will be stored to UDURLs with names of MUSICBRAINZ_LABEL_URL.
- Language
- This item controls the import of the Language associated with the release.
- Lyricist
- The Lyricist's name.
- Media subtitles
- This item controls the import of a media item's subtitle. The values, if present, will be written to a track's Set Subtitle field.
- Media type
- This item controls the import of the release's media type. If more than one media type is available, they will be written as multiple values to the media type field.
- Mood
- This item controls the import of the mood field which can sometimes be extracted from Discogs.
- Musician Credits
- Yate will attempt to extract all musician (vocal or instrument) credits from the MusicBrainz data. This information will be displayed in the Musician Credits field.
- Original release date
- This item controls the import of the original release date.
- Part of a compilation
- This item controls the import of the part of a compilation value. The displayed field will contain a 1 if the release is part of a compilation, otherwise a 0.
- Recording id
- This item controls the import of a per track recording id. The item will be stored to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Recording Id. The Recording id field and/or the Track id field must be present in order to map a track with the Access MusicBrainz action function.
- Relationship URLs
- This item controls the import of URLs to sites which have a MusicBrainz relationship with the release. These URLs may reference purchase sites or other informational sources. The URLs will be stored to UDURLs named MUSICBRAINZ_RELATIONSHIP_URL_text where text is replaced with the name of the relationship.
- Release country
- The two character country code associated with the release of the album. The value is stored to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Release Country.
- Release group id
- This item controls the import of the id used to reference the release group associated with the release. The id will be stored to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Release Group Id.
- Release group URL
- This item controls the import of a URL to reference the MusicBrainz webpage describing release group associated with the release. The URL will be stored to a UDURL named MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASE_GROUP_URL.
- Release id
- This item controls the import of the id used to reference the release information without searching. The id will be stored to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Release Id. The field must be present in order to map a track with the Access MusicBrainz action function.
- Release status
- The status of the MusicBrainz data. The id will be stored to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Release Status.
- Release Track id
- This item controls the import of a release track id. The id will be stored to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Release Track Id. The Recording id field and/or the Release Track id field must be present in order to map a track with the Access MusicBrainz action function.
- Release type
- The type of the release. The id will be stored to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Release Type.
- Release URL
- This item controls the import of the URL linking to the MusicBrainz webpage describing the release. The URL will be stored to a UDURL namedc MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUM_URL.
- Remixer
- The name of the remixer.
- Script
- The script designation.
- Titles
- This item controls the import of track titles.
- Track Numbers
- This item controls the import of track numbers.
- Track Count
- The total number of tracks on a single disc.
- Track positon
- The symbolic representation of a track's number as optionally specified in the MusicBrainz data. The information is stored as a UDTI named Track Position. This information can be displayed in the main list of files by displaying the Position column.
- Year
- This item controls the import of the year of the album's release.
You can enable or disable the import all of the items at once by right clicking in the table and selecting the appropriate context menu item. You can also choose to import all items only if they are currently empty. Note that certain items may contain more than one value separated by the multi value delimiter. If an item's field value contains the text URL, you can open the associated web page by selecting Open URL from the context menu or by double clicking on the item. The context menu also allows you to copy a URL to the clipboard.
Using the context menu you can save the current Import column settings. These settings can be restored from the saved set.
The table at the bottom of the window displays the title, track number and disc number for each track in the release. You can edit all of the information inline. MusicBrainz information is submitted by users and as such various formats may be used to represent the information. All attempts are made to properly determine the correct track and disc numbers.
You can use the splitter bar separating the two tables, to change the size of the tables.
Various functions are available to you via the bottom table's context menu.
Set disc break is used to identify the selected track as the start of a new disc.
Clear disc break is used to merge the disc of the currently selected track with the preceding track's disc. The function will only do something if the selected track is the first on a disc.
Renumber within discs will renumber the tracks from 1 within each disc.
Renumber eliminating discs will renumber the tracks from 1 setting all the disc numbers to 1.
If this release does not meet your requirements you can click on the Back to Release button and choose a different release from the list. Note that all editing changes will have been lost if you subsequently choose the same release.
If artwork is available for the release, the View Artwork button will be visible. This will take you to the artwork display where you can view and manually save the artwork.
If there are artwork related functions which can be performed, there will be a disclosure button to the immediate right of the Help button. When clicking on the disclosure button, the displayed menu may contain the following functions:
- Show Discogs Artwork at Discogs
- If Discogs artwork is available, selecting this function will take you to the Discogs site where the artwork available for the release will be displayed. Images from the web site may be dragged into Yate's artwork panel or main file list.
- Load Unloaded Cover Art Archive Artwork
- If not all Cover Art Archive artwork has been loaded due to your preferences, selecting this item will start loading the artwork. If Cover Art Archive artwork is currently being loaded, this item will display so.
- Load Unloaded Discogs Artwork
- If not all Discogs Artwork has been loaded due to your preferences, selecting this item will start loading the artwork. If Discogs artwork is currently being loaded, this item will display so.
If you are satisfied with the release and its associated data you can click on the Continue button. This will take you to the File mapping display.