Can't force a specific MusicBrainz release ID for an unknown disc

[enveeed]

One of my CDs comes up as unknown when trying to rip it:

Opening drive...
Unable to find release info for this CD, and metadata hasn't been manually added!
Please help improve the MusicBrainz DB by submitting the disc info via the following URL:

However, I do know exactly what release it is and I also have the MusicBrainz release ID for this disk.

I thought I could use the -R <string> option to force the usage of a specific release, but this just causes the same error as above. I've had this option work before in a situation where there were multiple matching releases, but it does not seem to work if there aren't any.

Is there any other way I can set the release ID?

[cyanreg]

I wrote something which works, but unfortunately, if the release has no mediums at all (such as one without an associated discid), then it has no mediums, and without mediums, we can't get the tracklist (different mediums can have different tracklists, the tracklist you see on a release is more of a stub from which to create mediums, and can't be accessed from the API). So only the cover art, and album-specific metadata will be filled-in, with all tracks having "Unknown title" as their title.

Would that be useful at all? For most albums with a medium, the medium will already be the CD itself, which makes it pretty useless.

[meersjo]

I occasionally run into this, or even a disc id that's already attached to another release. I find that opening the disc in Picard and from there doing "lookup on website" lets me work around it and add the disc id to the correct release. After that, either cyan works, or does present me with the url to add the track timings.

Would be nice to have something similar here, though.

Edit: in limited cases, I feel like #32 may also be helpful for this :-p