Primary aliases being ignored in MusicBrainz?

[djl]

Problem

Last week I ran an mbsync over my library and noticed a ton of artists no longer use their locale-specific aliases.

Two example artists and their aliases:

• 東京酒吐座 which should be "Tokyo Shoegazer"
• دمار which should be "Damaar"

No config changes made on my side. I suspect this might be a side-effect of dropping the old musicbrainzngs library for fetching data but I've not had a chance to fully debug this yet, so pure speculation on my part.

Setup

• OS: Linux
• Python version: 3.14.2
• beets version: latest git
• Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no

Relevant part of my configuration:

import:
  copy: no
  move: yes
  timid: yes
  write: yes
  from_scratch: yes
  languages:
    - en
  ignored_alias_types:
    - 'legal name'

[eramdam]

I'm seeing the same thing but I'm not aware of whether this was working properly before or not.