Guide me for unorganized import

[Eric Douglas]

I tried a few imports, and get several unrecognized, might be too difficult to find and add to MusicBrainz.

What is the best options, plugins, and settings needed for a massive import for nested directories of unsorted, and messy duplicates copied from old hard drives to save into the collection?

I would think the default would be fine, but I had issues, and keep skipping some, then found it was giving me options with blank filenames with _ and # asking to keep both, with different sizes.

I have tried Picard, but too many files, and I can't organize them into sets with a few folders at a time, because they have been split by other music programs trying to auto-organize.

I imagine beets system uses the AcouticID, and the MusicBrainz, and folder naming, to give smart possibilities, and then auto select the standardized selection with the highest % match.

I tried the interactive, the quite mode, and a few configs, with plugins on and off.

I tried Album Grouping, and Singleton mode.

What is your latest config for to cluster like Picard first the pile of music files to be imported, then Scan the singles after?

Thank you for helping out.

[Eric Douglas]

Some of my music is from https://archive.org/details/etree

Is there a selection or db to scan to get these tags?

They don't pickup well on Picard.

[Adrian Sampson]

I tried Album Grouping, and Singleton mode.

What is your latest config for to cluster like Picard first the pile of music files to be imported, then Scan the singles after?

`--group-albums` is indeed like that. I’d try that! And probably enabling the `chroma` plugin.

Some of my music is from https://archive.org/details/etree

Is there a selection or db to scan to get these tags?

Not currently, no.

Adrian