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+* Autotag
+** The Objective
++ Given a list of files, a album name and/or an artist name, find the
+  most apropiate release and apply its tags to the files.
+
+** The Problems
++ musicbrainz stores a lot of metadata for each release
++ the structure of the metadata is not clear
++ metadata is not always available
+
+** Implementation
++ autotag searches for all releases with a given name and prompts the
+  user to select one using dmenu. The id is kept.
++ the relevant release is looked up using the kept id. We do this in
+  order to include extra metadata that is not included in a mb-search
++ The metadata relevant to the whole release is kept while the
+  metadata for each track is retreived
++ The metadata is joined together.
++ Metadata is applied to the song files, the user is prompted each
+  time a unambiguous selection cannot be made.
+
+** FIXME
++ Check for musicbrainz errors
+** Ideas
++ add tag stack to reuse tags, usefull for manual tagging
++ manually give autotag a release id, might be useful later
++ add -f 'artist,album,track, ...' to control tags, implement more tags
++ export tags to stdout instead of just writing them
++ write scripts