Access MusicBrainz series (releases, release groups, recordings)

[Freso]

See https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Series

It would be great if beets could pull series information so you could sort e.g. podcasts like https://musicbrainz.org/series/f158ad31-bc44-4b22-94a4-025a8d6375cf into their own folder, using the ordering number in the filename, also releases/release groups that are part of a series could be sorted into some folder structure using the series or something. Either way, it would great to at least have the information handy. ;)

One caveat:

• Entities can be part of multiple series, so some way to select/prioritise between them will be needed.

[sampsyo]

Interesting. Shall we make a list of useful information to pull from the series?

• ordering number
• series name?
• series MBID?

[johtso]

This would be a great addition! Here's an example of some pain that would be alleviated by support for series :) http://musicbrainz.org/edit/31856400

[Nippey]

Hi I just tried to find out what is necessary to achieve this functionality. But I had no success getting series information from the MB API.
Maybe you do already have this information?

I have put some questions here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37991148/how-to-get-information-about-the-series-a-release-belongs-to-via-musicbrainz

If you can help me, I will help you :D

[jackwilsdon]

You might be better asking in the MusicBrainz IRC channel (#musicbrainz on freenode.net) 😄.

[Nippey]

Good point! You'll hear from me if I had success

[johtso]

Any thoughts how this might work?

I guess one approach is have some configuration where the user can list MBIDs of series they want to have grouped. Each MBID can also optionally have a flag indicating that all the recordings should be in one directory (often each release just contains a single recording, e.g. a podcast and you wouldn't want them to be in separate directories), possibly also overriding the album tag with the series name.

In the rare case a release belongs to more than one series that is listed in the config, throw an error?