sound-juicer tags mp3 files with incorrect musicbrainz ids

Yes, that's seriously wrong. Sound Juicer did this correctly in Intrepid. I just had a quick look myself, but couldn't find the cause for this behaviour.

This problem happens with vorbis files as well, so I assume it is general within soundjuicer.

Seems to be fixed with sound-juicer 2.28.0 (karmic beta).

I haven't tested this version, but given the source it does not look like it was fixed.

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy sound-juicer
sound-juicer:
  Installed: 2.28.0-1
  Candidate: 2.28.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.0-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

gives

Unique File ID: [http://musicbrainz.org] 777c3e8a-f3aa-41e9-8296-28d09bf42f18

UserTextFrame: [Description: MusicBrainz Album Id]
98862aec-2132-4407-bacc-508dbaddd3d8
UserTextFrame: [Description: musicbrainz_albumid]
98862aec-2132-4407-bacc-508dbaddd3d8
UserTextFrame: [Description: MusicBrainz Album Artist Id]
4bdcee62-4902-4773-8cd1-e252e2e31225
UserTextFrame: [Description: musicbrainz_albumartistid]
4bdcee62-4902-4773-8cd1-e252e2e31225
UserTextFrame: [Description: MusicBrainz Artist Id]
4bdcee62-4902-4773-8cd1-e252e2e31225
UserTextFrame: [Description: musicbrainz_artistid]
4bdcee62-4902-4773-8cd1-e252e2e31225
UserTextFrame: [Description: CDDB DiscID]
880ad70b
UserTextFrame: [Description: discid]
880ad70b
UserTextFrame: [Description: MusicBrainz DiscID]
rjqyEXrqEtGBetOV1A3dor6puHA-
UserTextFrame: [Description: musicbrainz_discid]
rjqyEXrqEtGBetOV1A3dor6puHA-

as reported by eyeD3 - looks OK for me ....

I've found the "fix". The package in Karmic uses the deprecated libmusicbrainz version 2 instead of 3 (the package of libmusicbrainz 2 is called libmusicbrainz4 in Ubuntu).

Jaunty switched from version 2 to 3, which introduced this bug. Now Karmic switched back, which "solves" this bug again. I've opened another bug report #455461, which explains why this is even worse than before.

I used Sound Juicer on Jaunty to rip the majority of my CDs, and then Picard to do some tag clean-up, so this bug got me. I wrote a small utility to fix the MusicBrainz tags (attached).

Note that you must have python and python-mutagen installed, and I only tested this code with python2.6.