Canonical Metadata in Picard

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While tagging my music collection using Picard, a few titles were identified as being part of compilations.

I would prefer to use the canonical data, i.e. the first album a title was released on instead, and the MusicBrainz Canonical Data Dumps would help with that:

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MetaBrainz Blog – 12 Jun 23
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New dataset: MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata​


The MusicBrainz project is proud to announce the release of our latest dataset: MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata. This geeky sounding dataset packs an intense punch! It solves a number of probl…


https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Canonical_MusicBrainz_data
https://metabrainz.org/datasets/derived-dumps#canonical

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canonical-data-example

GitHub - metabrainz/canonical-data-example: Example code that shows how to use the MusicBrainz...​


Example code that shows how to use the MusicBrainz canonical metadata


However, this doesn’t seem to be used by Picard. When I use the option “Search for similar tracks…”, dozens of entries are shown, but no canonical version.

Will this be integrated into Picard at some point, or is the only use case writing one’s own tagger (or using the example provided on GitHub) ?

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