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abcde automatically searches MusicBrainz to find a match for the CD track tags. I've ripped twelve CDs in a row and it works fine, but now I have a CD for which no MusciBrainz data was found. However, I know that that CD is on MusicBrainz and that the data on the website is correct. How can I tell abcde to fetch that set of tags from a specified URL? This is the URL: https://musicbrainz.org/release/4f07f060-5485-43a4-b514-62f8e5f7aea0

The reason I'm not tagging the songs manually is because I was given a bunch of CD's by an elderly person who wants me to put them on a USB stick for her car. There are a few CDs which are not originals, and that's what's causing the problem. (They're all "Unknown Album by Unknown Artist".) That would take me a very long time, so I'd rather have it done automatically.

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye).

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    Unlikely, but do the failing CD's have a CD-TEXT file? In that case you could point abcde to it as a fallback. Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 18:06
  • Thank you for your comment. No, the failing CD's don't have CD-TEXT files. They've likely been copied by someone who had little knowledge of anything computer-related. Does there exist some utility which I could use to generate CD-TEXT files from MusicBrainz data (or another working service)? Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 19:30
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    I just discovered MusicBrainz Picard. It's a marvel. Would it be appropriate to answer my own question by telling myself to use Picard? Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 20:26
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    Definitely! Self answering helps the next person having this issue (or your future self). Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 22:24

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Given that the ultimate goal is tagging the songs on the CDs without having to deal with the issue manually and waste a lot of time, use MusicBrainz Picard, which is an automatic tagging tool. This must be done after the songs are ripped from the CD. The tool is very easy to use, and can tag whole albums in a single click. The documentation can be found here.

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