Search MusicBrainz by CD ripper .log files

[shreyasminocha]

Picard lets you load a ripper log file from which it computes a disc ID and queries MB for releases that have that disc ID attached to them. Would be cool if we could achieve the same thing with beets. You could imagine beets bulk-processing all .log files in your library and flagging albums that are tagged with the wrong release, or albums that don't have their disc IDs on MB (and could be added by the user).

I'm wondering whether this in within the scope of the official musicbrainz plugin or if it should go in a separate, community plugin.

Searching for this feature request was tricky, so I'm hoping that this isn't a duplicate.

[wisp3rwind]

Sounds more appropriate for a separate plugin to me (whether official or in a community repo) rather than a direct part of the musicbrainz plugin. Getting metadata to search by and actually search on MB seem like separate concerns (consider also how there might be different rippers with different log formats: that complexity shouldn't be mixed with the musicbrainz code).

This has some similarity to the fromfilename plugin, which also seeds the initial metadata from an additional source beside the track's tags.