Wierd, I would have thought FreeDB would have that kind of metadata. In that case head on over to Music Brainz <http://www.musicbrainz.org/>. Legend has it when Gracenote claimed they owned all that metadata there were two open source projects to replace them, Music Brainz is the other one. The have a lot of advantages over FreeDB, honestly I think it's the 'z' on the end of the name that made them less popular.
They have libraries and lanquage bindings a-plenty, so you could even write your own app to query for a band's oldest album. I hope that works for you. On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:10:30 -0600 (MDT), Ross Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the process of organization my ever-increasing mp3 collection. One > thing I'd like to do is organize my music roughly by decades. freecddb.org > has failed me in trying to find, say, when the first album a band produced > was released, or what decade the majority of their releases appeared in, > etc. A quick google search doesn't find any comprehensive lists of bands > ordered by decade. Has anyone done something similar to this before? > > Any bright ideas? I could always just search the band name by hand on > amazon.com and look at the general spread of the years, but surely there > must be some automated way? > > ~ross > > -- > > This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Andrew Jorgensen ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
