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Musicbrainz works ok, but it lacks support for full albums.
I would like to see a freedb, cddb, and amazondotcom(co.uk, etc) support added for tagging albums. What do you guys think? |
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+1, would definitely like to see some freeDB support added - if Amarok can sort my music collection by renaming and moving files, it'd make sense for it to be able to set tags as well... at the moment I'm using easytag, and though that works it would be great to have the functionality built into Amarok.
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+1, retrieve tags from freedb would be just great.
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My biggest gripe with freedb is the lack of quality control. At least on musicbrainz there is peer review facility - where spelling mistakes are corrected for example. With freedb, the organisation of albums is such that if some moron decides to submit something that's completely wrong (ie, that doesn't match ANY known release of an album) there's no way to correct it - so you end up with 15 instances of the same album, each one different, and not always easy to work out which one is most correct.
The other problem is it really bites for individual track lookup - which is the facility I use most with musicbrainz Hands down, the BEST way to verify information is to manually research it, rather than rely on someone else's **** typing
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Freedb's quality is indeed inferior to musicbrainz's -- stupid typos, capitalization errors, really weird genre tags, multiple entries for a single album, horrible Various Artist handling, etc. But having support for it wouldn't harm IMO. On the other hand, I use freedb on the ripping stage (with kaudiocreator) and then corrent using musicbrainz |
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