Bad metadata being downloaded

[charles_cinci]

Hi,

Recently moved to a Win8.1 machine from a WinXP one. Also moved to 64-bit v2 version of Calibre. That all went very smooth.

However, as I've been adding books in the 64bit v2 Calibre I've notice that bulk downloading of metadata seems to return closer to 100% hits than v1 did. But that some of the hits are incorrect. And not just by a little either.

For example

		Original / Downloaded
Title: Darkness on a Pale Blue Stone / Stone Age Alpha
Author: D.T. Peterson / Edward N. Peterson
Identifiers: mobi-asin:B00BEBGYX6 / isbn:0952699818

Just downloaded metadata for 10 books, and 4 out of 10 including the example above had wrong metadata downloaded.

If I go back and download the metadata individually from the "Edit Metadata" screen, I can see and select the right set of metadata.

Is there anything I can do to better ensure the right meta data is downloaded. Or at least, that the wrong metadata is not. I've been making use of the "review downloaded metadata". Which is helpful, but I'd rather not get anything instead of a mismatch.

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

Check what metadata sources you have enabled. With the builtin ones of only Amazon and Google I get correct results for that particular book.

[charles_cinci]

I have:
Amazon
Goodreads
Google
ISBNDB
Open Library

I can remove some of the others I guess..

But that seems extreme....

Is there some way to adjust at minimum, the priority? Or better yet, anyway to configure how calibre choose which source to use?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Check what metadata sources you have enabled. With the builtin ones of only Amazon and Google I get correct results for that particular book.

[kovidgoyal]

You tell calibre which ones you prefer by disabling the ones you dont want it to use. You dont need to remove them, simply disable them temporarily.