1 Topic by voiceinsideyou (edited by voiceinsideyou 2012-07-17 03:58:22)

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Topic: Picard "Couldn't load album" errors - PLEASE READ FIRST

If you get "Couldn't load album errors" for releases in Picard, this can occur for a number of reasons. Check the following things:

1. Is the problem persistent for a given release?

Try waiting a minute or two, or even a bit longer and then try again with a right click, "Refresh". Sometimes the servers are just overloaded and temporarily reject requests. This is much less of a problem than it used to be in 2009/2010 and will hopefully happen less over time as MB gets more capacity.

2. Has the release been deleted/removed from MB?

If you are re-tagging files previously tagged with Picard, and get this error; the release has possibly been deleted. Try to right click and use the "Lookup in browser" option ("Lookup" button on bottom right in Picard versions earlier than 1.0) to view the release on the website - if you can't find it, it may have been deleted. This could be because you tagged a pending release that was voted down, or tagged against a release that was deleted because editors decided it wasn't a valid release. (Can happen for homebrew compilations, bad torrent or pirate rips, "advance" releases or very poorly added releases) Usually there will be an alternate release you can tag against you can find by searching or doing another clustered lookup from Picard. If you can't find a replacement and believe it has been deleted unfairly, submit a new release, supplying evidence of the tracklisting and as much information as possible to prove it is genuine and it may be accepted again.

3. (Picard 0.15 only) Does the release have a disc with a format of "8cm CD" or "CD-R"?

Picard 0.15 did not properly support these disc formats. This was fixed in Picard 0.15.1. Upgrade to this or a later version.

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2 Reply by koxel (edited by koxel 2012-03-29 12:55:12)

  • Registered: 2012-03-28

Re: Picard "Couldn't load album" errors - PLEASE READ FIRST

I aleady tried this post and another ways. But It don't work.
I am using Picard 0.15 on ubuntu.
It aleady turn off 'use folksonomy tags as genre', and turn off track relationship. I had checked release data.
But, some release could load persistantly. Not randomly. These can get few month ago. But now, these releases couldn't load metadata.
It can found on site tag search page. But Picard tool can get information and put error "Could not load album [MBID]"

3 Reply by soulsearchingsun (edited by soulsearchingsun 2012-03-29 13:04:40)

  • Registered: 2008-01-25

Re: Picard "Couldn't load album" errors - PLEASE READ FIRST

full edit: Have you tried the steps above and ensured that the release in question still exists?
edit2: (release in question=MBID that cannot be loaded)
edit3: Please post some of the affected MBID's here, otherwise we can't help with that issue.

4 Reply by koxel (edited by koxel 2012-03-29 13:15:20)

  • Registered: 2012-03-28

Re: Picard "Couldn't load album" errors - PLEASE READ FIRST

I tried debigging and found error message on picard 0.15 version. And i gooled it.
It aleady reported to tracker. (http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/ … 19653.html). That is aleady fixed. i added musicbrainz-developers ppa and update picard on my ubuntu machine.
Updated picard 0.16 was work well.

In this post, normal users couldn't know this problem.
So, please keep this reply or update content of this topic.

5 Reply by soulsearchingsun (edited by soulsearchingsun 2012-03-29 13:18:53)

  • Registered: 2008-01-25

Re: Picard "Couldn't load album" errors - PLEASE READ FIRST

Yeah. I mean no. Look again here (same bug that you mentioned). The bug was closed (almost 2 years ago) on version 0.12.1 already because it couldn't be reproduced. Those bugs come up from time to time. Most get closed, because bug reporter doesn't give enough information.
But if it works now, everythings fine.

6 Reply by koxel (edited by koxel 2012-03-29 13:35:40)

  • Registered: 2012-03-28

Re: Picard "Couldn't load album" errors - PLEASE READ FIRST

soulsearchingsun wrote:

Yeah. I mean no. Look again here (same bug that you mentioned). The bug was closed on version 0.12.1 already because it couldn't be reproduced. Those bugs come up from time to time. Most get closed, because bug reporter doesn't give enough information.
But if it works now, everythings fine.

This bug reproduced on picard 0.15 on my  ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot machine. :)
And reported on 0.15 version. (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.au … bugs/15069)

But, It work fine on 0.16. Everythings fine.

Ps. I have a mistake. I posted wrong link on my previous reply. (http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/ … 34520.html)
Sorry for soulsearchingsun.

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Picard "Couldn't load album" errors - PLEASE READ FIRST

I have updated the post.

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