Best way to import songs that aren't on MusicBrainz?

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I’ve got some tracks which aren’t on MusicBrainz and most likely don’t belong there (e.g. DJ sets which are in one audio file) - what’s the best way to get these into beets?

So far I’ve just been been using beet import --set with a bunch of different fields, but this doesn’t seem like the nicest way to do it (and I end up having a hard time merging multiple tracks into a single album, e.g. in the case of music events where 1 track is 1 artist).

How do other people deal with importing tracks like these? I’ve been thinking of writing my own little script that wraps beet import --set with some interactive prompts for fields, but I’d like to see if anyone else has tackled this issue.

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I use the edit plugin for this.

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I tag them first using a tagger tool like Kid3, then once everything is right, import into beets.

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I use a separate tagger app too like Meta and import afterwards.

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