Mark Lanctot;193042 Wrote: 
> 
> There is a URL that allows musicbrainz.org access that was mentioned
> somewhere in this forum, can't find it right now.  I like using that
> because it's VERY accurate, but the coverage isn't as great.  Which is
> confusing because I can find the disc just fine in musicbrainz's web
> interface but not through the lookup URL?

Musicbrainz doesn't always have a disc-id attached to a release.  (And
it may not have -all- disc id's attached... it is scary sometimes how
many distinct disc id's a given release can have.)

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/CddbGateway for info on the cddb-protocol
gateway.

(This is one of those confusing things, which gets into the history of
FreeDB... The original Compact Disc Database was at Sunsite.unc.edu,
but was sold to Gracenote.  Freedb is a fork of the original data files
and lots of updates.  The protocol is still called CDDB.  I am not sure
what Gracenote calls their service.)

There is also FreeDB2.org, which is a fork of the FreeDB database from
a few months ago, when a fight occured at FreeDB...

I only use FreeDB for inital tags/naming, but polish all the tags with
MusicBrainz.  (And, yes, I add DiscID's as I go.)


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