Bad Song Matching/How to Fix a Song Mismatch

[Timothy Fowler]

Hi,

I am trying to match some old Cypress Hill albums, that have bad or non-existant ID3 tags and it worked well for all of the albums except for Skull & Bones. For some reason, I get the song matches below for that album. The song order is partly broken, for example matching "a_man" with "Another Victory" and vice versa. Given that the strings are nearly identical, any insight into why the match is bad? And, is there a mechanism for fixing the song ordering? It's mostly right, and the fixes are simple so it seems like a waste to not use beets for this album. I tried singleton matching, but that causes issues with songs on different albums and stuff like that and I tried other albums but they're always the same mismatch.

tfowler@krakatoa:/mnt/HD_a2/media/music$ beet import -C Cypress\ Hill/2000\ -\ Skull\ And\ Bones/

/mnt/HD_a2/media/music/Cypress Hill/2000 - Skull And Bones

No matching release found for 17 tracks.

For help, see: https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/wiki/FAQ#wiki-nomatch

[U]se as-is, as Tracks, Skip, Enter search, enter Id, aBort? E

Artist: Cypress Hill

Album: Skull & Bones

Finding tags for album "Cypress Hill - Skull And Bones - ".

Candidates:

1. Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones [Columbia, 2000] (35.5%)

2. Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones [Columbia, 2000] (35.5%)

3. Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones [Columbia, 2000] (35.5%)

4. Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones [Columbia, 2000] (34.2%) (partial match!)

5. Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones (bonus disc) [2000] (12.8%) (partial match!)

# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Enter search,

enter Id, aBort? 1

Correcting tags from:

    Cypress Hill - Skull And Bones -

To:

    Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones

(Similarity: 35.5%)

 * 01-intro.mp3 (0) -> Intro (1)

 * 04-a_man.mp3 (0) -> Another Victory (2)

 * 03-(rap)_superstar.mp3 (0) -> (Rap) Superstar (3)

 * 01-valley_of_chrome.mp3 (0) -> Cuban Necktie (4)

 * 05-dust.mp3 (0) -> What U Want From Me (5)

 * 06-stank_ass_hoe.mp3 (0) -> Stank Ass Hoe (6)

 * 05-what_u_want_from_me.mp3 (0) -> Highlife (7)

 * 07-highlife.mp3 (0) -> Certified Bomb (8)

 * 09-can_i_get_a_hit.mp3 (0) -> Can I Get a Hit (9)

 * 03-can't_get_the_best_of_me.mp3 (0) -> We Live This Shit (10)

 * 11-worldwide.mp3 (0) -> Worldwide (11)

 * 04-cuban_necktie.mp3 (0) -> Valley of Chrome (12)

 * 02-get_out_of_my_head.mp3 (0) -> Get Out of My Head (13)

 * 10-we_live_this_shit.mp3 (0) -> Can't Get the Best of Me (14)

 * 02-another_victory.mp3 (0) -> A Man (15)

 * 08-certified_bomb.mp3 (0) -> Dust (16)

 * 06-(rock)_superstar.mp3 (0) -> (Rock) Superstar (17)

[A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Enter search,

enter Id, aBort?

Thanks,

Tim

[Adrian Sampson]

Hi, Tim,

In this case, the songs are missing title tags (perhaps missing tags altogether?), so beets is trying to use song lengths to get a match. (It doesn't (yet) try to use filenames for matching.)

Consider using fingerprinting for this and other albums that are missing tags:
http://beets.readthedocs.org/en/1.0b15/plugins/chroma.html

There is not currently a way to manually reorder tracks, but star this issue in the bug tracker to vote for it:
http://code.google.com/p/beets/issues/detail?id=377

Adrian