mbsync doesn't handle merged albums

[emiham]

Problem

I noticed I have different artist for VULTURES 1 and VULTURES 2, so I ran mbsync to try to fix this:

% beet -vv mbsync VULTURES

The output looks fine, but I was confused that nothing seemed to change:

...
Sending event: library_opened
Parsed query: AndQuery([AnyFieldQuery('VULTURES', ('artist', 'title', 'comments', 'album', 'albumartist', 'genre'), SubstringQuery), NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([AnyFieldQuery('VULTURES', ('album', 'albumartist', 'genre'), SubstringQuery)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Requesting MusicBrainz release 3e62072c-2c9d-45e7-815e-9746a72591e7
Sending event: mb_track_extract
...
Sending event: mb_album_extract
Sending event: albuminfo_received
mbsync: applying changes to Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign - VULTURES 1

It turns out the release I used in the beginning has been merged into another release, which mbsync doesn't seem to notice. Original url: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release/3e62072c-2c9d-45e7-815e-9746a72591e7 New url: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release/ac54ae52-6423-4835-952c-9a320d442f13

I don't know what the cleanest solution would be, but one approach could be checking if the url redirects and in that case update the ID to match the new page.

Setup

• OS: Arch Linux
• Python version: 3.12.5
• beets version: 2.0.0
• Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): didn't try