cybermaven wrote:Can't there be another option of web search than amazon??

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... oo#p195396

Yes, an Addons forum full of options.

Can't there be another option of web search than amazon??

Just, to add that we are hoping that too.

Thanks for the information.
That is too bad. Like I said, amazon MP3 has appeared to be more complete lately. Oh well.
Hopefully that will change some day.

gpzbc wrote:I just figured out the using the ASIN number from Amazon mp3 results in a "No result was found" message every time. It appears that the search excludes Amazon MP3.

Is there any way to have the search include Amazon MP3 as well as Amazon CD format? Lately I have been finding a bit better results on the Amazon MP3 site.

There was a discussion about this previously somewhere, and basically the answer is no. The MM devs can't access the amazon mp3 data because Amazon doesn't provide an API to access that info.

I just figured out the using the ASIN number from Amazon mp3 results in a "No result was found" message every time. It appears that the search excludes Amazon MP3.

Is there any way to have the search include Amazon MP3 as well as Amazon CD format? Lately I have been finding a bit better results on the Amazon MP3 site.

Lowlander wrote:PS. You can also locate the album on the Amazon website and use the ASIN number in the Auto-Tag from Web search box. (ex. B000002MZ9)

Oh, great tip!! I didn't know that!

Mythobeast wrote:I'm currently trying to fill out a bunch of my music collection's albums, and the autotag from web does an amazingly bad job of it, and I'm curious about why.

I guess the main reason for the lack of "accuracy" in the results is that the search is for recordings available from Amazon.com, and not a search in a historical music database as such. They have never releases, sometimes with other covers and tracks, and are showing the year of that release, not the year of the first release of the original recording. Nor the first year of the release with that particular cover or track list either.

Using the ASIN # as the search string is a truly helpful, time-saving suggestion - thank you.

I also tried looking for neil young mirrorball and neil young mirror ball (manual typing as I don't have the album) and it found the correct album on both occasions. I'm using Amazon US.

PS. You can also locate the album on the Amazon website and use the ASIN number in the Auto-Tag from Web search box. (ex. B000002MZ9)

Thanks for your quick response. I checked the dropdown, but there were no other results.

But, an update: I was going to manually tag it from the Amazon listing, and discovered the correct name for the album is "Mirror Ball", so I tagged and renamed the files to match. When I again tried Auto Tag from Web, it used "Neil Young Mirror Ball" as the search string, then truncated it to "Neil Young" and again came up with "After the Goldrush".

BUT: when I manually typed in "Neil Young - Mirror Ball" (including the "-") as the Auto Tag search string, it finally found the correct album. Such are our little victories

I hope people find this useful.

Did you check the search drop-down? Often several results are returned and you might need to select the correct one. For me nearly all albums are found, although any improvements would always be welcome.

I agree with how incomprehensibly-bad Auto-Tag from Web is, like it can't even extract the already-tagged artist and album and use that.
I'm currently ripping CDs using dBPowerAmp, because it does native Apple Lossless rips (MediaMonkey: pretty please?), which just sound better than conversions from Mediamonkey FLAC rips. But then I load the untagged files into Mediamonkey and insert the artist and album manually, and I pick up the track # using autotag from filename.

But when I then attempt Auto-tag from Web... take a mundane, mainstream example: Neil Young's album MIrrorball. Auto-tag from web first searches for "Neil Young mirrorball", then it deletes "mirrorball" and just searches for Neil Young. Then (surprise) it finds "Neil Young - After the Gold Rush".

When I throw that away and explicitly type in "Neil Young - Mirrorball" as the search term, it can't find it, sigh. Auto-tag from web has been exactly like this for several years now. Mediamonkey is so amazing a program that I, a Scotsman fer chrissake, paid MONEY for it, and will again even if this annoying "feature" is never fixed.