Today, I’ll share one of the greatest secrets ever concealed. It makes you able to
- use the freedb lookup function in your cd ripper, while
- avoiding freedb’s crappy (euphemism here) data
- and using MusicBrainz‘ good quality data instead.
How that, you ask ? Well, as per musicbrainz.org/doc/CddbGateway musicbrainz.org/doc/FreeDBGateway:
The
mb2cddbmb2freedb gateway […] can be accessed using the following settings:
host
www.mb.inhouse.co.ukfreedb.musicbrainz.org
via http
port 80
path /~cddb/cddb.cgiIt should be just a matter of changing the host and possibly the path, as the other settings are standard for most applications.
Enjoy.
Yes, this is well hidden since its running on a test server in someone’s house. 🙂 Once we have this running somewhere where it can handle more traffic we’ll make lots of noise about it!
So for now, let’s leave the info on this obscure blog so that no one can find it… hey wait, how did *you* find this post only 8 hours after its creation? You’ve got a big radar. 🙂
Google Alerts. I have one set for musicbrainz and I get a daily mail of new sightings of that term on the web. Quite useful.
Yeah, I use it on some keywords too, but, wow… they index fast! Maybe they index blogs more frequently… and maybe they know mine is one to keep on close watch. 😉
Updated with new host