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Use MusicBrainz artist IDs to distinguish artists with same name

Philipp Wolfer requested to merge phw/lollypop:mb-artist-id into master

This PR attempts to extract MusicBrainz artist IDs from scanned files, if available.

  • The main use of this is to distinguish between different artists with the same name
  • The MB artists IDs are also used in ListenBrainz submission

The following screenshots illustrate the effect on similar named artists. Without this patch you see below one artist entry "Paradise Lost" with two different albums. But actually these are two distinct artists.

screenshot-2019-03-26-11-18-05

With the patch there are now two separate artist entries for the different "Paradise Lost", with the one album by a different band split out.

screenshot-2019-03-26-12-13-58

TODO: I have to check how to handle the case of multiple (album) artists and therefor multiple MusicBrainz album IDs, but I have to setup a proper test case for this.

Edited by Philipp Wolfer

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