Rip Results Never Showing Up Over At Freedb

[mrcd]

I have noticed lately that over the last year or so many of the "secure but not in database" rip results never show up at freedb. I am beginning to wonder what the point of sending rip data is if it's never reflected. I am talking about several hundred CD's or more. Some of my rips were very rare. Just to try further I reripped those CD's from somewhere else months later and still those matches did not compare with my previous CD rip results I submitted. Anyone know what the issue is?

[garym]

Re: Rip Results Never Showing Up Over At Freedb

Where in dbpa does it allow one to submit metadata to online databases (it may be there, I'm just not aware of it). I do know that when we rip, we can submit data to the ACCURATERIP database, but that's different from something like freedb.

[schmidj]

Re: Rip Results Never Showing Up Over At Freedb

Gary,

When in the ripper main page, click the down arrow next to the Meta tab. In the dropdown list, the third from the bottom choice is "Submit Changes To". Hover the cursor over it, you'll see a box "Freedb". It will be greyed out unless you have typed something into the main ripper page, the Review Metadata/Review Perfect Matches page doesn't count. Since that is how I enter most of my metadata, I often add a space in a Composer field on the main page to ungrey it. Click on "Freedb" You'll get a dialog box looking for the Freedb category, then a box saying your data has been accepted and will appear in the database in a few hours.

I've entered a lot of data on uncommon Caribbean albums, it does make it into the database, after some indeterminate period. I can see it from within the ripper if I search metadata with the cache turned off, and from within Freedb's database on their webpage.

Be aware it is a pretty miserable excuse for a metadata database. No composers, etc. Only album title, artist, in one field separated by a delimiter; per track title and artist in one field separated by a delimiter; year and genre fields (text field) once for the whole album; and a provision for a comment. Go to their website and search some entries, you'll see what I mean.

Look at the Musicbrainz database, play with Picard, their free entry tool. Much more complete, unfortunately for far less albums. Even has a fingerprint sample of the audio of cuts for recognition, which then brings up the extensive metadata for the whole album. If you register with them you can submit metadata. I'm considering using Picard after the dBPoweramp ripper to submit metadata, I don't really have the time.

I wish the Musicbrainz people and Spoon could get together to allow metadata input to Musicbrainz from within the dBPoweramp ripper

John

[garym]

Re: Rip Results Never Showing Up Over At Freedb

aha. Thanks. Never noticed that!