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.

[Morikko]

Do you mean specifically on albumartists_credit / artists_credit or also on artists / albumartists ?

I wanted to mbsync some songs and I realized that albumartists_credit / artists_credit would be un-aliased while artists / albumartists kept their alias.

[djl]

@Morikko All of the fields mentioned are affected.

$ beet ls -a -f '$albumartist // $albumartist_credit // $albumartists // $albumartists_credit' دمار
دمار // دمار // دمار // دمار
$ beet ls -a -f '$albumartist // $albumartist_credit // $albumartists // $albumartists_credit' 東京酒吐座
東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座
東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座
東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座
東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座 // 東京酒吐座

[djl]

Something I've just noticed is that primary aliases are not ignored for releases.

[Morikko]

Do you have ?

plugins:  musicbrainz

[Morikko]

I implemented releases support recently and it is using the same code than artists so it should behave the same.

At least, my issue seems different than yours. For sure, artists_credit is not aliased. It might behaved differently before #5748 or #6052 but not sure how.

@snejus If you agree than artists_credit and co deserve to be aliased, I can make a PR.

[djl]

I do have musicbrainz in my plugins. I'll do some debugging later.

How difficult would it be to support ignored_alias_types on a per-entity basis? E.g. a user would like aliases enabled for artists but not for releases, groups or anything else.

I think it should be do-able but I haven't properly looked at that part of the code since I added the original ignore functionality.

[snejus]

@Morikko of course, go ahead! Note I've just merged a huge refactor of this plugin - hopefully you will find it a bit easier to navigate it now.