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[Marra]

Back on board, looking for help with MCUtils (2021-05-06-1638) amg.pl using strawberry perl portable. How do I copy error messages I'm getting with this new install.. "can't locate....file.pm in @INC".  Right click with mouse not giving option to copy text from the command line. Thanks in advance.

[MrBiff]

Check your messages.

[kliclick]

Hi, I'm just beginning with MCUtils, which seems to be a very nice work, but have a problem, maybe my English is too bad reading the manual.
I wanted to store in my database the Discogs ID, Master ID if present, Release ID and Artist ID.
In the Discogs ID I wanted to store the Release ID value since you don't always have a Master ID in Discogs database.
I run  the following command : "perl discogs.pl -VV --id r13123919 -T" which correspond to an album without Master ID. The passed id correspond to the Release ID.
The return was something unexpected (see attached image) :
- the returned discogsid is 13123919 (ok, it's the release id as specified)
- discogsmid is m13123919, but this is wrong since a master id does not exist, Discogs pages show only r13123919
- discogsmurl is https://www.discogs.com/release/13123919. This is the Master URL, pointing to a release address (not a master url)
- discogsrid remains blank
For such a case, I expected the master id and master url to remain blank, and the release id and url to be filled.
Using it with an album with both master and release id, no problem, the Release ID is stored as Discogs ID, and all master and release id are filled as expected (at least for me).
Did I something wrong, or does MCUtils supposed to work like this ? Thank you.

[kliclick]

Hi, I'm just trying to install the latest version (MCUtils_2022-05-27-1705) using Strawberry Perl and the "install_win.bat" batch file for the modules.
But when I try to make a new config I get errors (see attached image) and the result is an empty config file. Any ideas?
Thanks

[lepa]

Maybe some bug in code which sets username/passw. You can run it without username and password and then manually add those to minimal config file. There is also a converter for field overwrites you have possible made in the tools folder. Input is your old config file and it prints out changed fields in new format.

I just manually converted my old config in notepad++ by looking syntax from the default config files. If you are using everything as default then I guess all you need is the username/password in the config

[HansVanEijsden]

By the way, for those on MacOS using MacPorts: if you receive errors with missing modules, I've fixed those errors by running these extra commands (the install_osx_macports.sh script didn't install those in my case):
sudo port -N install p5-path-tiny
sudo port -N install p5-hash-merge

[lepa]

Hi Hans, Could you check your inbox here on the forum. When trying to send you a PM it says that your inbox is full.

[HansVanEijsden]

Hi Hans, Could you check your inbox here on the forum. When trying to send you a PM it says that your inbox is full.

Thanks, done! I had 5 messages there, didn't know that was the maximum. Deleted 4 of them.
By the way, the MCUtils developer contacted me, very kind and fast. My "issue" will be solved in the next release. 

[Outlaw Audio]

+1
Thats Mr C.  for ya!

Do read the user manual as well.  Lots of good tidbits in there as well

[jvthree]

+1 @kliclick same problem with adding new config
set the unm and pwd manually and moving to next step.

jv3

[BryanC]

Finally getting around to using discogs.pl on Linux to populate some particularly annoying to tag albums from discogs data. Toolbox makes this (sort of) a breeze for Perl and it had no problems with network or https for MCWS. Bravo! Is there a donation link and have you thought of repository-based hosting on Git* or elsewhere so I can stay up-to-date with your development without having to manually check?

A usage question: what's the fastest method of assigning discogs ids to my existing albums from within MCUtils/MC? If I have to do it externally (Musicbrainz, beets, etc.), I figure I might as well just apply the tags externally too and read them back into MC, but where's the fun in that? It would be cool if there was a semi-intelligent dicogs id assignment strategy as part of MCUtils, with user input as needed for edge cases and tag comparisons for overwrite/updates. Am I overlooking something or overthinking this?

[lepa]

There is no AI solution yet in the MCUtils  I use MC links to go release pages (MB/Discogs). I have set link query to also to include catalog # so I can get more accurate hit. There is also --search in mcutils which can help. For me as I need specific pressing page that search isn't what i use though. (For movies and series it is a gem)

My workflow is first try Musicbrainz as it may also contain discogs and AM ids (which MCUtils will then fill for you) so I can save some time there.

[lpas]

I have tried to install mcutils on macOS Sanoma folliowing instructions in the guide (installing Macports, Xcode and command line tools, placing MCUtils folder on Desktop). When I enter " source tools/install_osx_macports.sh" I get - after entering password -:

Error: Port perl5  p5-net-ssleay p5-lwp-protocol-https p5-lwp-useragent-cached p5-mojolicious p5-term-ansicolor p5-file-which p5-text-csv p5-xml-libxml p5-date-calc p5-uri p5-html-encoding p5-json-maybexs p5-json-xs p5-text-unidecode p5-file-slurp p5-ipc-system-simple p5-clone p5-term-readline p5-term-readline-gnu p5-roman p5-path-tiny p5-hash-merge p5-mac-pasteboard p5-future-asyncawait not found
Installation Done

What am I doing wrong?