hi!

i'm using tellico for my CD collection. i use this great feature where i
can import data from freedb.org just by putting a CD in the tray. but if i
try to add data searching the internet, i can only access discog and
musicbrainz, which are all but useless for the kind of CDs i'm
cataloguing. is there a reason why i can only retrieve information from
freedb if the disc is in the drive? i'm asking for several reasons, one of
them is that i often have to have to catalogue a CD using a netbook without
an optical drive.

thanks for your attention!

theloni0us wrote:i'm using tellico for my CD collection. i use this great feature where i
can import data from freedb.org just by putting a CD in the tray. but if i
try to add data searching the internet, i can only access discog and
musicbrainz, which are all but useless for the kind of CDs i'm
cataloguing. is there a reason why i can only retrieve information from
freedb if the disc is in the drive?

As far as I know, the Freedb/CDDB API interface doesn't really have free searching by album or artist, for example. It uses a hash of the disc contents to search, which is what Tellico implements. I'll poke around and see if it's possible to do a free search. I know freedb.org has a text search on the website, but that's different from the interface for applications.

You might also check to see if the freebase data source might provide some of the info you need.

robbystephenson wrote:I know freedb.org has a text search on the website, but that's different from the interface for applications.

thank you robby for the clarification, i had no idea of the internals. i guess for the moments this feature will remain in the wish list of uncertain fulfillment...

You might also check to see if the freebase data source might provide some of the info you need.

thanks for the tip! i had never tried freebase before, and it certainly proved to be useful in many cases. i can even retrieve the CD covers. a few quirks, though:

- the database isn't nearly as complete as freedb, and i could only find a small amount of the CDs i tried to catalogue;

- for some reason, in many cases the list of tracks is in a completely wrong order;

- also for some mysterious reason, in many cases when i tried to update an existing entry from freebase (to retrieve the cover, for example), this crashed tellico... i tried launching the application from a terminal (gentoo linux here), but the messages were rather terse. could i possibly help with a bug report?

thanks again for your contribution to the free software community with this great app!

theloni0us wrote:- also for some mysterious reason, in many cases when i tried to update an existing entry from freebase (to retrieve the cover, for example), this crashed tellico... i tried launching the application from a terminal (gentoo linux here), but the messages were rather terse. could i possibly help with a bug report?

If you can compile with debug support and then generate a backtrace from the crash, that would be the best. And if you can reproduce the crash, let me know what steps it takes and then I can take a stab at fixing it.

I don't know much about Gentoo, but from a search, perhaps something in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml can give you a pointer about generating backtraces?

Thanks very much!