# AcoustID Recording Information Panel

This panel displays information acquired from acoustID.org via track fingerprint matching. The window presents items in a tree format with the following hierarchy:

- A track
- One or more possible recording matches for the track
- One or more potential MusicBrainz releases for the Recording

Tracks are displayed in blue. A recording item will display a column in red when its value differs from that of the track.

The following Columns are displayed:

Filename
  This column displays the file name of a track or Recording or Release.
Album
  This column displays a track's album name.
Title/Detail
  This column contains a track or recordings title. For releases it contains detail about the release.
  Release information is encoded as: CC-YYYY-T#-M#-(RC). CC is the country code of the release. YYYY is the year of the release. T# is the number of tracks in the release. M# is the number of media items in the release. (RC) is the number of displayed tracks which are contained in the release. The country code will be preceded by a check mark (✓)if the release is estimated to be the earliest release of the track in the available data. If the release has been determined to contain all of the current tracks the display text will be preceded by a ☆ or a ★ if it has been determined to be the best release match.
Artist
  This column displays an artist name.
Time
  This column displays the duration information in seconds. This column is empty for releases.
ID or Rec/Rel ID
  This column displays the presence of a MusicBrainz release ID or recording ID. A R character is displayed to indicate that the ID exists. If you resize the column, the actual ID will be displayed.

One purpose of this window is to import album, title and artist information associated with information in MusicBrainz. Note that this process does not require accessing MusicBrainz. Along with the album, title and artist information it is possible to import MusicBrainz track (recording) and album (release) IDs. These IDs assist in Yate's MusicBrainz matching algorithms.

Another purpose of this window is to display a MusicBrainz release in the MusicBrainz Wizard. When this is done, all displayed tracks in the launched release will be mapped. Note that when the MusicBrainz wizard is launched in this manner the Auto add files option is disabled. However you can manually perform the operation by using the context menu in the wizard's mapping display. Note also that the automatic execution of an action, post importing is disabled.

This window can also be used to extract earliest release information. The algorithm weighs track contained title fields against recording title fields looking for the earliest year information. The earliest release is the release which has the best score. Note that releases with durations that differ more than five seconds from the track's duration are ignored. Also recordings with no available release year are also ignored.

The window's context menu supports six different import variants. All these functions work on the currently selected items in the table. At most one instance of each metadata type will be imported to a track for each operation. That means if you're importing the Album and multiple releases are selected for the same track, only the first album name will be imported.

The following functions are available from the table's context menu.

Select Current Release Where Possible
  When a single release is selected this will select the same release in all tracks.
Select Best Release Containing All Tracks
  Whenever this window is opened a test is made to see if there is more than one track. If that is the case, a further attempt is made to determine which releases contain all of the selected tracks. If there is more than one possible release candidate, the Preferred Country Codes preference is used to determine if a preferred match can be found. If a preferred match cannot be found the preferred match will be an arbitrary release which contains all the tracks. This function will select all the tracks in the best release or display why there is none. Once a best release is selected you can use the various Import functions to import the associated data.
Import Album
  This function will import the name of the album from Release items.
Import Title
  This function will import the name of the title.
Import Artist
  This function will import the name of the artist.
Import Year
  This function will import non zero years from Release items.
Import MusicBrainz Recording Id
  This function will import the recording id.
Import MusicBrainz Release Id
  This function will import the release id from Release items. Note that the MusicBrainz Release Country and the MusicBrainz Release Group Id are also imported if available.
Import MusicBrainz Release and Recording Ids
  This function will import the release and recording ids from Release items. Note that the MusicBrainz Release Country will also be imported if available.
Import All Metadata
  This function will attempt to import the album, title, artist, year, Ids and country code. What actually gets imported depends on the selected items.
Show MusicBrainz Release in Wizard
  This function launches the MusicBrainz wizard for the selected release. Note that all tracks in the release will be selected and an Import Row will automatically be performed on the tracks in the release in order to assist in the wizard's mapping process. All tracks and recordings not in the selected release will be collapsed in the tree. All selected rows must have a consistent Release ID.
Goto MusicBrainz Release in Wizard
  Same as the 'Show' variant except the AcoustID window will be closed.
Show Recording on MusicBrainz Site
  This function will open the MusicBrainz web page for the selected recording.
Show Release on MusicBrainz Site
  This function will open the MusicBrainz web page for the selected release.
Show Earliest Release for Track
  If an earliest release has been found for the selected track, it will be displayed and highlighted.
Import All Early Release Metadata
  Each track which has an associated earliest release will have the its metadata imported. This includes the Original Album, Original Artist, Original Filename/Title, Original Release Time and the MusicBrainz Original Album Id UDTI.
Import Earliest Release Metadata
  The selected release will have the its metadata imported as earliest release information. This includes the Original Album, Original Artist, Original Filename/Title, Original Release Time and the MusicBrainz Original Album Id UDTI.
Expand All
  Expand all items in the window.
Collapse All
  Collapse all items in the window.