> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Pujos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 December 2006 22:26 > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: (313) foo_discogs, a tagger plugin for foobar2000 > > Hi people, > > I've been developping a plugin for the foobar2k audio player > (http://www.foobar2000.org/). > I thought this could be of interest to some of you. > > Features: > > - tag files using discog data. Retrieve more info than most taggers. > Goes to extra length to make sure retrieved data is correct > and well formatted > - retrieve all available album art > - flexible tag mapping allows you to write only what you want > where you want > - use of meta data in tags to display artist / label / > release discogs www page > - able to later update specified tags and update album art > (useful to update rating and fetch new art) > > Current version: 0.25 > Download: http://bubbleguuum.free.fr/foo_discogs/foo_discogs_0.25.zip > Some needed DLLs if you don't have them (or too old versions): > http://bubbleguuum.free.fr/foo_discogs/libcurl.zip. Unpack > this in fb2k > root directory > Screenshot of the plugin in action: > http://bubbleguuum.free.fr/foo_discogs/foo_discogs.png > Screenshot of fb2k using extensively discogs data: > http://bubbleguuum.free.fr/foo_discogs/foo_discogs2.png > > Official thread: > http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50523 > Discogs thread: http://www.discogs.com/forums/topic?topic_id=118729
That looks brilliant! Although I've been pleasently surprised by the availability of most things on the CDDB-type databases that are out there already, it would be fantastic to have the ability to link up the tags with the database that is most used for the music that most of us have. And I could even see a future inversion of this where you can import albums to drafts on discogs from the fully tagged mp3s. One of the things I like best about foobar are its tagging features, particularly mastertagger's ability to guess the tags from the filename. Saves loads of time manually entering tags. Anyway... one question I have about your system is how it would work with inconsistencies or multiplicities in the discogs database. For instance, if you are trying to tag your ripped copy of Depeche Mode's "Speak & Spell", which has been released on 15 million labels and umpteen formats, how does foobar know which one of the releases to use as its referent? This is inherently a problem with (mostly) duplicate (and sometimes discrepant) data in the discogs database which I'm sure no one has found the best way around yet. While much of this problem is about there being 30 different releases of the same work, there are also issues like the Japanese import on CD, which has four extra tracks that would need to be accounted for. I'm just curious how this would accommodate that. Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/580 - Release Date: 08/12/2006 12:53
