• From: Pittsburgh
  • Registered: 2012-06-11

Topic: Recommend 1st album song appears on instead of last

I 1st want to say this program has been amazing so far in handling all of my ripped CD collection.  I am now tackling the horde of one-off's and singles I've accumulated.  Besides navigating my way through the website database which has been very time consuming for every single track, is there a way for Picard to associate the album of a song with the 1st time or oldest dated album instead of the most recent??

The problem I am running into is that the songs are appearing on complication CD's, or other CD format's.  What I would like is for the recommended album based on the PUID, to be the 1st time the song appeared on the artist's original album release.  Is there a way to do this?  Also, it would be really neat if I could right click on a song, and it would list all of the albums that song has appeared on and choose it that way.

Thanks in advance for any help!

  • Registered: 2008-04-25

Re: Recommend 1st album song appears on instead of last

That's currently not possible. You can tell Picard to prefer studio albums to compilations though. Options -> Metadata -> Preferred releases.

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

Re: Recommend 1st album song appears on instead of last

recommended album based on the PUID

PUID/AmpliFIND is deprecated, often doesn't work due to lack of support from disGraceNote/Sony (who now own it), and support will soon be removed from Picard. You should try using AcoustID if you can - I believe it tends to behave better than PUID when dealing with individual tracks.

You can't right click on a song and choose an album from a list; but you can right click "lookup in browser" which does a much more powerful website search. This amounts to the same thing; but you see the list of possible matches in your browser, and select one using the "tagger" button.

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