Problem
The Tidal plugin assigns copyright.text directly to the label field. Tidal returns rights statements rather than normalized label names, so candidate output and imported metadata contain copyright markers, years, corporate relationships, and territorial boilerplate. Other autotaggers set normalized label.
Examples:
© 2011 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.© 2019 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States(P) 1992 Zomba Recording LLC
This affects both albums and tracks because both paths use _parse_label().
Expected behavior
Store a concise label name instead:
Motown Records- Either
Atlantic Recording Corporation or WEA International Inc.
Zomba Recording
When the rights statement cannot be parsed safely, retain a conservatively cleaned value rather than guessing or dropping the field.
Suggested fix
Add a reusable label normalization helper that removes leading copyright or phonographic copyright markers and years, then trims recognized corporate and territorial boilerplate at explicit phrase boundaries. Keep the transformation single-pass and conservative.
Add parametrized tests covering ©, ℗, (C), and (P) prefixes, the examples above, plain label names, missing copyright data, and ambiguous rights statements.
Problem
The Tidal plugin assigns
copyright.textdirectly to thelabelfield. Tidal returns rights statements rather than normalized label names, so candidate output and imported metadata contain copyright markers, years, corporate relationships, and territorial boilerplate. Other autotaggers set normalizedlabel.Examples:
© 2011 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.© 2019 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States(P) 1992 Zomba Recording LLCThis affects both albums and tracks because both paths use
_parse_label().Expected behavior
Store a concise label name instead:
Motown RecordsAtlantic Recording CorporationorWEA International Inc.Zomba RecordingWhen the rights statement cannot be parsed safely, retain a conservatively cleaned value rather than guessing or dropping the field.
Suggested fix
Add a reusable label normalization helper that removes leading copyright or phonographic copyright markers and years, then trims recognized corporate and territorial boilerplate at explicit phrase boundaries. Keep the transformation single-pass and conservative.
Add parametrized tests covering
©,℗,(C), and(P)prefixes, the examples above, plain label names, missing copyright data, and ambiguous rights statements.