Gracenote data is based on the former cddb, so it contains LOTS of junk information and returns bad data more often than not. The database is apparently quite big, so it sometimes returnes a result when MusicBrainz fails.
Still, MusicBrainz is edited by humans and music enthusiasts, so the data quality is usually much higher. And yes, it’s open and constantly expanded. So I’d recommend using one of the MusicBrainz-capable taggers (Picard, Jaikos, etc.) and use their PUIDs as unique IDs. You will also get much better tagging results. Anyone who wants to help is invited to become an editor himself, scan his/her tracks and submit the PUIDs (for instance using Picard), and also check in his/her Disc IDs, so MusicBrainz' cddb interface gets better too. Adding missing releases and correcting errors in MB is heartily appreciated — for the benefit of all of us :-) Using Gracenote would also cripple SC: Their license explicitly forbids using -any other other tagging information source except Gracenote (!)- and you have to show their logo in the user interface. Yuck. Another bad example of letting a big user base invest thousands of man-hours work for free (entering their data) then taking it over commercially and restrict it. Well, 'nuf said. I think it pays investing some time in -initally- adding (tag) data to one's music (i.e., when ripping an album), then never have to do it again. I invested 9 years in my ~27k file collection, but it paid off. Really. Even entering all that stuff into MB, and only -then- store it into the library… Some self-control is needed for that, of course ;-) -- Moonbase Moonbase: 'The Problem Solver' (http://www.kaufen-ist-toll.de/moonbase) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Moonbase's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62556 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
