# Plans for matching MusicBrainz using disc\_id?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/plans-for-matching-musicbrainz-using-disc-id/2010>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 30, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/plans-for-matching-musicbrainz-using-disc-id/2010 "2022-01-30T15:46:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![dlevy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/dlevy/32/619_2.png) [@dlevy](https://discourse.beets.io/u/dlevy)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/plans-for-matching-musicbrainz-using-disc-id/2010/1 "2022-01-30T15:46:53Z")

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Are there any plans to add a feature to match MusicBrainz or CDDB disc\_id signatures calculated from the raw CD?

I like to rip my CDs to an archival format. This means a lossless encoding and including absolutely no information not included on, or visible on, the disc. So I limit the metadata tags to only include MusicBrainz disc\_id and CDDBID both of which are hashes calculated from how the tracks are layed out on disc. I then would like to use beets to fill in all of the metadata. However beets doesn’t seem to query MusicBrainz with MUSICBRAINZ\_DISCID at all. It only uses MUSICBRAINZ\_ALBUMID.

Does the community think adding this feature makes sense? Would it be more appropriate as a plugin or as an addition to the AutoTagger functionality?