CPAN has lots of modules for querying FreeDB.
The problem you'll find is that they tend to need the DiscID or
the cdrom available as /dev/cdrom etc...
Searching through CPAN modules with freedb id3 finds
WebService::FreeDB which looks like it
will do the trick.
However accuracy may be a
Musicbrainz often has that information, the catch is you may not agreee
with their definition of release date.
(ie, re-issues and remasters are supposed to get a new release
date...)
Allmusic.com may also have it, but they want a license signed before
using their data.
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Over the weekend I spent a little time trying to figure out a way to
populate the year field in ID3 tags where it's missing.
I wrote a Perl script (on Linux, but I think it's portable to other
OS's) to zip through my collection, find files with missing year tags,
and output the results
fantastico, radish! That looks like it might just work.
cheers,
#!/ben
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Discogs.com? They have a fairly google like search engine and the DB is
pretty damn extensive. In fact, the biggest problem you're likely to run
into is narrowing results down - even a pretty specific query like
this:
Discogs has an API. Doesn't look too bad.
http://www.discogs.com/help/api
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bklaas;238755 Wrote:
Digging my old CDs out for this would take WAY more time then just
manually searching google for album release year. CDDB is not a good
solution here, esp. because I don't have DiscIDs saved into the tags
either. I started ripping music well before I understood why
Benway;238717 Wrote:
CPAN has lots of modules for querying FreeDB.
The problem you'll find is that they tend to need the DiscID or
the cdrom available as /dev/cdrom etc...
Searching through CPAN modules with freedb id3 finds
WebService::FreeDB which looks like it
will do the trick.
Thinking about it, Amazon Web Services might work well too - I know a
lot of apps use it for getting cover art, you can give it some pretty
vague queries and it will do it's best to match. The advantage that
would have would be that parsing neat XML is typically easier than
scraping HTML, in my
