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zxsix

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find albums I don't have by artists in library
« on: December 18, 2018, 07:48:44 pm »

Is there any way to query allmusic, musicbrainz, or any other online catalog to identify if I don't have a specific album for each artist in my MC library?
i.e. I have all album releases from a specific artist.  artist released a new album last month that I don't have yet.  I'd like some way to identify that I need to consider purchasing that album that I don't have in my library currently.
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Re: find albums I don't have by artists in library
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2018, 01:24:05 am »

Interesting.... :o
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Re: find albums I don't have by artists in library
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2018, 02:09:49 am »

I think Discogs has an open API that could enable such things  :)
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Re: find albums I don't have by artists in library
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2018, 04:15:48 am »

This would be a great thing to add ...
Just a hint :)

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Re: find albums I don't have by artists in library
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2018, 08:55:32 am »

On many artists I would get a FLOOOOD of albums with such a function hehe. Browsing AMG or Discogs you realize how big many older artist's back catalogs are.


But I like services where I enter a list of artists and they ping me when there are new releases out. Spotify does it.
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Re: find albums I don't have by artists in library
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2018, 08:57:15 am »

I agree that it should be a user configurable list of artists to search for.

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Re: find albums I don't have by artists in library
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2018, 09:11:19 am »

The buttons with the current artist as a target when going to a bunch of different web sites is a very nice and effective (but still manual) helper:

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zxsix

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Re: find albums I don't have by artists in library
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2018, 09:25:42 am »

The buttons with the current artist as a target when going to a bunch of different web sites is a very nice and effective (but still manual) helper:



That's what I use now, though it's usually when I'm playing an artist and realize the newest album I have is 2 years old.  Do they have anything new out?  Click on that link and get a quick look at their discography.

Looking for a script or plugin that I can run every once in a while that will do a comparison of their main album releases.  Don't want to see singles, live albums, or greatest hits.
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