#music-brainz #album #artist #search #save #string-search

app musicbrainz-release-grabber

Check if there are new albums on the musicbrainz release. Give it a folder and it will check the artist ids and save it. Now you can just ask for new releases whenever you want. Don't forget to edit the artists.

45 releases (4 stable)

1.0.3 Sep 28, 2025
1.0.1 May 8, 2025
0.17.3 Mar 15, 2025
0.17.1 Dec 5, 2024
0.2.4 Mar 27, 2023

#435 in Command line utilities

GPL-3.0-only

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musicbrainz-release-grabber

Finds new albums released on musicbrainz from a given directory.

Usage

  • Load your music directory with init -d
  • Remove directories you do not want to include.
  • Get the ids from musicbrainz (init -f). This will output artists where the musicbrainz artist does not match your search string. These might be wrong artists or just different spellings.
  • Use new to get new albums.

Notice the last step will take a while rougly 2 seconds per as per musicbrainz throttling restrictions. This will also obviously give all possible information you are searching for to musicbrainz.

Dependencies

~15–32MB
~459K SLoC