discogs plugin doesnt find anything using auto import on beets latest commit

Problem

I am using beets on the latest commit on the master (link).

the auto importer does not yieldany candidate for any album on discogs. here is a trivial import output in verbose:

root@beets:/media/music/tag# beet -vv import -t 1967\ -\ Blowin\'\ Your\ Mind\ \(2008\ Remaster\)/
user configuration: /beets/config.yaml
data directory: /beets
plugin paths:
/src/beets/beets/mediafile.py:19: UserWarning: beets.mediafile is deprecated; use mediafile instead
  warnings.warn("beets.mediafile is deprecated; use mediafile instead")
inline: adding item field multidisc
inline: adding item field disc_number
inline: adding item field disc_and_track
Sending event: pluginload
library database: /mnt/efesto-data/beets/library.db
library directory: /media/music-library/library
Sending event: library_opened
Sending event: import_begin
ignoring b'@eaDir' due to ignore rule b'@eaDir'
Sending event: import_task_created
Sending event: import_task_start
Looking up: /media/music/tag/1967 - Blowin' Your Mind (2008 Remaster)
Tagging Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind (2008 Remaster)
No album ID found.
Search terms: Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind (2008 Remaster)
ignoring b'@eaDir' due to ignore rule b'@eaDir'
Album might be VA: False
Evaluating 0 candidates.

/media/music/tag/1967 - Blowin' Your Mind (2008 Remaster) (13 items)
Sending event: import_task_before_choice
Sending event: before_choose_candidate
No matching release found for 13 tracks.

The release is correctly found if i explicitly provide the discogs ID.

Setup

• OS: beets running on a custom docker container running on Synology NAS DS918+
• Python version: 3.7.3
• beets version: beets master at latest commit
• Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no

Date of the container is correctly set. Discogs plugin is correctly authorized and working. I am running on the latest commit cause i really need musicbrainz to be disabled. bandcamp plugin works correctly and yields candidates.

My configuration (output of beet config) is:

directory: /media/music-library/library
library: /mnt/efesto-data/beets/library.db


# files/directories matching one of these patterns are ignored during import
ignore:
- .*
- '*~'
- System Volume Information
- lost+found
- '@eaDir'
ignore_hidden: yes
clutter: ["Thumbs.db", ".DS_Store", "*.m3u", "*.pls", "*.db"]


# replace special characters in generated filenames
# replace:
#     '[\\/]': _
#     '^\.': _
#     '[\x00-\x1f]': _
#     '[<>:"\?\*\|]': _
#     '\.$': _
#     '\s+$': ''
asciify_paths: yes
art_filename: cover  # results in "cover.jpg"

# use mutliple threads during import
threaded: yes

# on multi-disk releases, assign track numbers for the whole album. If enabled, make sure tracknames do not collide ("paths" setting).
per_disc_numbering: yes
# use the release-date of the original (first) release of an album?
original_date: no

aunique:
    keys: albumartist album
    disambiguators:  catalognum label year albumtype albumdisambig releasegroupdisambig
    bracket: '[]'

## UI options
ui:
  color: yes


import:
  # write metadata to music files
  write: yes
   
# move imported files from source to the music directory
  move: yes
  copy: yes
  delete: no

  resume: ask
  incremental: yes  #-i
  incremental_skip_later: yes
  from_scratch: yes
  quiet: no #--quiet
  #quiet_fallback: skip

  timid: no
  log: /mnt/efesto-data/beets/beets-log.log
  detail: yes
  group_albums: no # if yes, search for different album in the same directory through metadata
  bell: yes

  # set_fields:
  #   genre: 'to listen'
  #   collection: 'unordered'

musicbrainz:
  enabled: no
  # host: localhost:5000
  # ratelimit: 100
  # searchlimit: 1


match:
    strong_rec_thresh: 0.07      # match 90% or better for auto import
    medium_rec_thresh: 0.25
    rec_gap_thresh: 0.25
    max_rec:
        missing_tracks: medium
        unmatched_tracks: medium
    preferred:
        media: []
        original_year: no
    ignored: []
    ignore_video_tracks: yes
    ignore_data_tracks: yes
    ignored_media: ['Data CD', 'DVD', 'DVD-Video', 'Blu-ray', 'HD-DVD', 'VCD', 'SVCD', 'UMD', 'VHS']



    # default: Album/%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}/[$original_year] %lower{%asciify{$albumartist}} - %lower{%asciify{$album}} %lower{$atypes} %lower{%aunique{}}/%if{$multidisc,$disc}$track %lower{%asciify{$artist}} - %lower{%asciify{$title}}
    # default: 'Albums/%the{$albumartist}/$album (%if{$original_year,$original_year}) 
    #   %aunique{albumartist album year, albumdisambig}%if{$albumdisambig,($albumdisambig $year) }%if{$is_flac,($format $bitdepth-$my_samplerate),($format $av_bitrate)}/
    #   %if{$multidisc,$disc-}$track - $title'

## PLUGINS
plugins: [
   albumtypes, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/albumtypes.html
   # bandcamp, # https://github.com/snejus/beetcamp
   bpd, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/bpd.html
   convert, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/convert.html
   discogs,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/discogs.html
   duplicates, #https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/duplicates.html
   edit,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/edit.html
   export, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/export.html
   fetchart,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/fetchart.html
   fromfilename,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/fromfilename.html
   hook, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/hook.html
   info, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/info.html
   inline,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/inline.html
   mbsync,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/mbsync.html
   # mpdupdate, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/mpdupdate.html
   missing , # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/missing.html
   rewrite, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/rewrite.html
   # scrub,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/scrub.html
   types, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/types.html
   web, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/web.html
   usertag, # https://github.com/igordertigor/beets-usertag
   # spotify, # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/spotify.html
   copyartifacts,
   fromfilename
   # bpsync,  # https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/bpsync.html
 ]


paths:
    singleton: Non-Album/%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}/%lower{%asciify{$artist}} - %lower{%asciify{$title}}
    comp: Compilations/%lower{%asciify{$album}} %lower{$atypes} [%lower{%asciify{$catalognum}}] %lower{[%aunique{}]}/%if{disctotal>1, $disc}$track %lower{%asciify{artist}} - %lower{%asciify{$title}}
    default: Album/%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}/[$original_year] %lower{%asciify{$albumartist}} - %lower{%asciify{$album}} %lower{$atypes} [%lower{%asciify{$catalognum}}] %lower{%aunique{}}/%if{$multidisc, disc $disc_number/}$disc_and_track %lower{%asciify{$artist}} - %lower{%asciify{$title}}
    # default: Album/%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}/[$original_year] %lower{%asciify{$albumartist}} - %lower{%asciify{$album}} %lower{$atypes} [%lower{%asciify{$catalognum}}] %lower{%aunique{}}/$disc_and_track %lower{%asciify{$artist}} - %lower{%asciify{$title}}
    # ext:jpeg: $albumpath/images/
    # ext:jpg: $albumpath/
    # ext:gif: $albumpath/images/
    # ext:png: $albumpath/images/
    # ext:URL: $albumpath/others/
    # ext:url: $albumpath/others/

copyartifacts:
    # extensions: .jpg 
    print_ignored: yes
    
edit:
  itemfields: track title artist album disc disctitle disctotal tracktotal
  albumfields: album albumartist

item_fields:
    # initial: albumartist[0].upper() + u'.'
    # myDisc: ('' if disctotal == 1 else str(disc) + '. ')
    multidisc: 1 if disctotal > 1 else 0
    disc_number: |
      if disctotal > 1 and disctotal < 10:
        return '{:01d}'.format(disc)
      elif disctotal > 9:
        return '{:02d}'.format(disc)
    disc_and_track: |
      if disctotal > 1 and disctotal < 10:
        return '{:01d}.{:02d}'.format(disc, track)
      elif disctotal > 9:
        return '{:02d}.{:02d}'.format(disc, track)
      else:
        return '{:02d}'.format(track)

albumtypes:
    types:
        - ep: 'EP'
        - single: 'Single'
        - soundtrack: 'OST'
        - live: 'Live'
        - compilation: 'Compilation'
        - remix: 'Remix'
    ignore_va: compilation
    bracket: '[]'

discogs:
   user_token: ooHXaLXOGeUMHJjWRRcPyysAtSElUskaehzHcmVq
   index_tracks: yes
   # source_weight: 0.0

bandcamp:
  source_weight: 2.5
  preferred_media: Vinyl,CD,Cassette
  include_digital_only_tracks: true
  search_max: 5
  art: yes
  comments_separator: "\n---\n"
  exclude_extra_fields: []
  genre:
    capitalize: yes
    maximum: 0
    always_include: []
    mode: progressive # classical, progressive or psychedelic

spotify:
    source_weight: 0.7
    mode: open
    show_failures: on
    tiebreak: first

duplicates:
    checksum: no  # expensive

fetchart:
    auto: yes
    cautious: true
    cover_names: cover
    quality: 100
    store_source: yes
    sources:
        - filesystem
        - coverart: release
        - coverart: releasegroup
        - itunes
        - '*'
types:
    rating: int

web:
    host: 192.168.1.20




    # regex: [
    #     {
    #         field: "albumartist", # Field in the item object to regex.
    #         search: "Something", # String to look for.
    #         replace: "Replaced" # Replacement value.
    #     },
    #     {
    #         field: "title",
    #         search: "Something Else",
    #         replace: "AlsoReplaced"
    #     }
    # ]

[emanuele-virgillito]

I can close the issue, indeed part of the answer was that of @snejus. After thousands of tagged albums i used as test the worst one. The outcome was actually a mix of subtle problems with that and my docker configuration. Thank you!

[rezaisrad]

I’ve made a few changes to the API call for search as I found the current form was missing metadata for a lot of my requests: https://github.com/rezaisrad/beets/blob/41f17beb237cc9bc1fd91431db95abdb070c0b50/beetsplug/discogs.py#L287-L386

Still a work in progress but my discogs searches have improved so far