Tracks available on Musicbrainz and Spotify websites are missing in beets

[fetkitty]

When trying to search for a song I do get the corresponding album as a search result, however, the exact song I want to use is missing in beets. If I click on the provided link, the songs are available on the website. Here is an example:

C:\Users\User\Music\flac\Cham! (1 items)
Finding tags for album "マクロスMACROSS 82-99 - CHAM!".
Candidates:
1. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - CHAM! (59.2%) (missing tracks) (Digital Media, 2017, XW, Neoncity Records)
2. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - Aogashima Island ! (43.6%) (id, album, tracks) (Digital Media, 2017, XW)
3. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - Sakura (41.0%) (id, album, tracks, ...) (Digital Media, 2017, XW, Banana Network)
4. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - CHAM! (39.6%) (missing tracks, id, year) (Digital Media, 2015, XW)
5. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - CHAM! (36.3%) (missing tracks, id, label, ...) (Digital Media, 2015, XW, DaFuture, DFTR008)

(note the missing tracks annotation next to the first result)

If I then try to open the first result I get the following:

URL:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/bf96f898-83c6-48cc-90bd-4ddf493af9a9
(Similarity: 59.2%) (missing tracks) (Digital Media, 2017, XW, Neoncity Records)
Missing tracks (13/14 - 92.9%):
 ! Intro (w Kokayna)                      (# 1) (0:36)
 ! Rainbow Roads (w Timid Soul)           (# 2) (3:10)
 ! Peach (w Diana Shroomy)                (# 3) (2:07)
 ! Ash (w Libano)                         (# 4) (2:29)
 ! Whispy Woods/Game Over (w Strider Kun) (# 5) (5:37)
 ! Been Thinking About It                 (# 6) (0:46)
 ! I Miss You (w ローマンRoman)               (# 7) (2:46)
 ! Dark City                              (# 8) (3:26)
 ! In The Moonlight                       (# 9) (2:13)
 ! ごめんなさい                                 (#10) (2:32)
 ! Lost Without You                       (#11) (1:22)
 ! Perfect Blue                           (#13) (2:55)
 ! [unknown]                              (#14)

See how track 12 is missing? It isn't missing on the website itself. Is there any way I can fix this?

[sampsyo]

"Missing tracks" means that you don't have those files.

[fetkitty]

Alright I tried doing this and the same thing happened. Here's the output:

beet import "C:\Users\User\Music\flac\Cham!\MACROSS 82-99 - Fun Tonight.flac"

C:\Users\User\Music\flac\Cham!\MACROSS 82-99 - Fun Tonight.flac (1 items)
Finding tags for album "マクロスMACROSS 82-99 - CHAM!".
Candidates:
1. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - CHAM! (59.2%) (missing tracks) (Digital Media, 2017, XW, Neoncity Records)
2. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - Aogashima Island ! (43.6%) (id, album, tracks) (Digital Media, 2017, XW)
3. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - Sakura (41.0%) (id, album, tracks, ...) (Digital Media, 2017, XW, Banana Network)
4. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - CHAM! (39.6%) (missing tracks, id, year) (Digital Media, 2015, XW)
5. マクロスMACROSS 82–99 - CHAM! (36.3%) (missing tracks, id, label, ...) (Digital Media, 2015, XW, DaFuture, DFTR008)

Any ideas?

[fetkitty]

Also the directory only contains one file on purpose, it's just one song not the whole album

[sampsyo]

If the directory only contains one song, then beets will say "you are missing the rest of the tracks on this album." That's what "missing tracks" means.

If you only want to import one song, not the whole album, then you might want a singleton (-s) import. The autotagger guide has more details:
https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/tagger.html

[fetkitty]

Ah great thank you now it works! I have one more question that I would like to ask:

Is there any way to use Spotify first and Musicbrainz second? I don't want to open a whole new discussion just for one question so i'll just ask here.

Thank you again for helping me out!

[arsaboo]

@fetkitty You can use source_weight to configure the desired order.