Tristan Watkins a écrit :
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.
It does just that: import most data (even submitter, or number of people
on wants / possess a release!) and let you
map it to whatever tag you like.
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.
To tag a release you have to find manually the release id on discogs
using search. If the release URL is
http://www.discogs.com/release/346493, you'll have to enter 346493 as
release id. For the few programs allowing to tag
from discogs I tried , I found it was much faster to find the release
manually using a web browser rather than to go through multiple popups
which
can be error prone as like you say some releases are named the same.
Don't let you intimidate by the fact you have to find manually the
release id because after that the plugin is very powerful and configurable.
You have to enter the release id once as it's stored in a tag and used
for useful things like later fetch art, update tags etc.
Also the plugin will let you display the discogs www page for artist /
label / release / album art, and as it's bindable to keyboard!
If you got v0.25, please get v0.26 instead which fixes a few bugs:
http://bubbleguuum.free.fr/foo_discogs/foo_discogs_0.26.zip
