Oops, looks like MusicBrainz (or parts of) are non-free; whereas FreeDB is well, free... ;-)
Quoting "Gerald B. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use GRIP which still utilizes FreeDB for tagging. I'm not familiar with > MusicBrainz, but the concern would be for providing compatibility with > files which are > tagged using FreeDB or another method. Providing local file support > of course definitely > helps to mitigate that concern. I have seen postings regarding GRIP > and providing the > capability to use MusicBrainz, but nothing about whether this is > actually being worked. > > Quoting Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 1/23/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This sounds like a very interesting addition to RB's album art plugin... >>> >>> Andrew Conkling wrote: >>> > Any plans to pull this from MusicBrainz when the tracks are already >>> > tagged as such? >>> >>> When you say "suitably tagged" do you know what tags Banshee uses to >>> determine the album cover? I would guess the MusicBrainz DiscID should >>> be used: >>> >>> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/DiscID >>> >>> Do you have some suitably tagged example files (even silent dummy tracks >>> would be great for testing)? >> >> I don't know offhand, but I have plenty of files (all tagged with >> MBz's Picard). Let me know how and I'd be happy to supply the tags >> here. >> >>> According to these blog posts, the MusicBrainz covers come from Amazon >>> anyway - but using MusicBrainz's cover mapping would probably be better >>> than a simple Amazon search: >> >> Oh, absolutely; I listen to mostly classical which doesn't search well >> on Amazon, but even still I've had Björk tracks (just to name someone >> who I'm assuming is sufficiently popular) with incorrect cover art. >> >>> I guess we could use the MusicBrainz XMLWebService to get the release >>> information - in particular the Amazon ASIN (which we then use to get >>> the correct cover from Amazon): >>> >>> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XMLWebService >>> >>> > After noticing that Banshee pulled the right cover all >>> > the time when it was set on MBz, I was disappointed to find that >>> > Rhythmbox was doing its own (often incorrect) search. >>> >>> Looking here, at the Banshee Album-Art plugin, I can see no mention of >>> MusicBrainz: http://code.google.com/p/album-art-plugin/ >> >> That's a random third-party plugin, but not one that I use. >> >>> Could you give some more information about how album cover art works in >>> Banshee with MusicBrainz? >> >> I'm not exactly sure; even with all the Banshee plugins off, it still >> retrieved the cover art (which is not saved locally, by the way). >> _______________________________________________ >> rhythmbox-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
