Cddb (freebd lookup)

i currently have a number of older albums that i am just having fits with when trying to get album info.

ex. quiet riot greatest hits, remo williams the adventure begins soundtrack.

now while my id3 tag info is correct i find that the search for album info is shadey at best even on a manual search. yet i can goto freedb and do a search for "remo williams" and it gives me 2 options, the first of which is my album. when i put the exact entry in the manual search i come up with 7 pages of garbage that arent even close to what i have.

so is there a method we can tweak this search or an alternate ip (i refer to the one in xboxmediacenter.xml) to see if we can ge this a little closer to the actual album?

the quickest way i have found is using dr tag. you can download a trial for free that will let you make 50 saves before restarting it (which is plenty for about 2-3 albums).

if you find a track listing anywhere on the web (i use amazon.co.jp for mine) then save it as a text file.

dr tag allows you to import track listings from a .txt file and will rename all the tags accordingly.

sometimes it makes a mistake, but you can swap different fields with the click of a button.

i can't remember the url of the dr tag website off my head, but a quick search of google should sort you out.

thanks tom. i will google it tonite. i have the text i need to put for the track. like you said, i will try to import that using this tool. afer this, when u click info on xbmc for the track, will it still go to website to lookup? how do u make sure it does not do that and instead read this imported text?

thanks
v

album info is done via allmusic.com. it searches on just the album name - not sure whether this can be changed. we'd need to find out the syntax for the search by album name and artist name (if available).

afaik, xbmc won't rename the tags. the cddb database only does that when you insert a cd i think. at least, it has never done it for me.

usually if i copy a cd via xbmc, i like to edit the tags manually afterwards anyway. because the cddb is edited by the public, there can be a lot of mistakes with grammar, punctuation and capitalisation etc... still, it's a good start.

hey tom

i have a similar need. once you find the cd info, how do you put that on your info file for the track?

i need to add some custom track info for some compositions that are not listed on allmusic or freedb. any suggestions?

actually scrap that request... after checking freedb, it seems that the japanese track listings are written mostly in english, not japanese and so i would have to trans/'>translate them myself anyway. it's easier to just do it myself with the album info from amazon.co.jp

yeah, is there a way to switch getting the track listings to freedb? i know that allmusic is a much 'neater' site, but freedb seems to have a lot more listings (although no reviews)... also, if it doesn't have something, then it's at least possible to upload the details (something that you can't do on allmusic i believe).

anyway, the reason for my asking is that i have a lot of japanese cds. both mine and my girlfriends and some of hers are relatively old. i can find the information on freedb no problem, but i can't find anything relevant on allmusic.

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