I have a problem that some of my albums are not identified by this scraper.
Example: Manfred Mann's Earth Band / Leftovers
The query issued to musicbrainz is:
10:35:55.640 T:1564 DEBUG: Thread MusicInfoScraper start, auto delete: false
10:35:55.640 T:1564 DEBUG: ADDON::CScraper::FindAlbum: Searching for 'Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Leftovers' using Universal Album Scraper scraper (path: 'C:\Users\JoScha\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\metadata.album.universal', content: 'albums', version: '2.7.3')
10:35:55.641 T:1564 DEBUG: scraper: CreateAlbumSearchUrl returned <url>http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?fmt=xml&query=release:%22Leftovers%22%20AND%20(artistname:%22Manfred%20Mann%27s%20Earth%20Band%22%20OR%20artist:%22Manfred%20Mann%27s%20Earth%20Band%22)</url>
10:35:55.642 T:1564 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x2560644b480)
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?fmt...20Band%22)
10:35:55.691 T:1564 DEBUG: CScraperUrl::Get: Using "UTF-8" charset for XML "http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/?fmt=xml&query=release:%22Leftovers%22%20AND%20(artistname:%22Manfred%20Mann%27s%20Earth%20Band%22%20OR%20artist:%22Manfred%20Mann%27s%20Earth%20Band%22)"
10:35:55.694 T:1564 DEBUG: scraper: GetAlbumSearchResults returned <results sorted="yes"></results>
10:35:55.694 T:1564 DEBUG: Thread MusicInfoScraper 1564 terminating
No info is found. The album exists here as CD1 of the 40th anniversary release:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/325c347b...449a7c6996
Unfortunately, "Leftovers" doesn't have a separate release ID, so it's correctly not identified as a release. Now my question, would it be possible to extend search to disc titles of releases, maybe as an additional option in settings (field: %discsubtitle%)?
UPDATE:
If I query for "Manfred Mann's Earth Band / 40th Anniversary", no results are returned as well...
UPDATE UPDATE:
Looks like there a weird kind of aposthrophe used in the band's name.
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (musicbrainz)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band (what one would expect)
Maybe this could be normalized in queries?