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I am a heavy user of your software. Overall, it kicks ass!
(I'm actually writing a book on music collecting and plan to write a section specifically about this software).
Here's a situation I face often.
I have an Asian or Russian CD which I rip. Either dbpoweramp can't find disc information through the known sources. Or, it finds it through FREEDB, which often has the wrong encoding on it. Because I know Russian (barely!) I can often type metadata by hand (very slowly!), but I have noticed cases where DISCOGS has the CD listed while the others don't.
For example, this CD http://www.discogs.com/%D0%98%D1%80%...elease/2601476
Just wondering why dbpoweramp doesn't also search this database. Are there licensing/cost issues? I know foobar2000 lets you do this (a plugin, I thinK). Is there a way that I could import the metadata through a text file?
In this particular case I was able to use Foobar2000 to query discogs, and it found a correctly encoded metadata set.
Finally, another question. I often have to manually type in metadata manually for my CD. Often the CD is not in any of the databases (not just for Russian or international stuff, but obscure US stuff as well). Dbpoweramp lets you submit changes to freedb, but as far as I can tell, it has no way to submit a new CD via dbpoweramp to freedb. Am I missing something? Or was this a design decision?
(I'm actually writing a book on music collecting and plan to write a section specifically about this software).
Here's a situation I face often.
I have an Asian or Russian CD which I rip. Either dbpoweramp can't find disc information through the known sources. Or, it finds it through FREEDB, which often has the wrong encoding on it. Because I know Russian (barely!) I can often type metadata by hand (very slowly!), but I have noticed cases where DISCOGS has the CD listed while the others don't.
For example, this CD http://www.discogs.com/%D0%98%D1%80%...elease/2601476
Just wondering why dbpoweramp doesn't also search this database. Are there licensing/cost issues? I know foobar2000 lets you do this (a plugin, I thinK). Is there a way that I could import the metadata through a text file?
In this particular case I was able to use Foobar2000 to query discogs, and it found a correctly encoded metadata set.
Finally, another question. I often have to manually type in metadata manually for my CD. Often the CD is not in any of the databases (not just for Russian or international stuff, but obscure US stuff as well). Dbpoweramp lets you submit changes to freedb, but as far as I can tell, it has no way to submit a new CD via dbpoweramp to freedb. Am I missing something? Or was this a design decision?
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