Local Freedb Errors

[max]

Hi Guys,
In these days I have to rip 200 CD's and i don't want to stay always connected to the Internet (for the album track info) so i download and install the offline freedb Database (freedb-win-20050104.rar).
With some CD i experience some problem in CD Recognition (i receive wrong artist/title information). For a test I try to go to the online database at freedb.freedb.org and..... the title from the Internet is ok.
I try also with other rippers (like aud*o*r*b*er) and the behavior is the same.
Is an offline database problem or the problem is in the search algorithm for the offline database?

[ChristinaS]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Hi Guys,
In these days I have to rip 200 CD's and i don't want to stay always connected to the Internet (for the album track info) so i download and install the offline freedb Database (freedb-win-20050104.rar).
With some CD i experience some problem in CD Recognition (i receive wrong artist/title information). For a test I try to go to the online database at freedb.freedb.org and..... the title from the Internet is ok.
I try also with other rippers (like aud*o*r*b*er) and the behavior is the same.
Is an offline database problem or the problem is in the search algorithm for the offline database?

Either the offline database isn't up to date, or indeed there may be a slightly different search algorithm.

[max]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

i think the DB is the newest downloadable (http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/fre...n-20050104.rar) from the main site.
The problem occurs more frequently if the disc has many entries in the database.

[Spoon]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

It might not be using the offline database (using old cds from cdplayer.ini), check the path is correct for offline freedb.

[max]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

I checked out the path and it seems to be correct (the database is installed on another drive) ant for many cd's it was the first time that I play them.
Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance
MAX

[Spoons]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

i now use my offline databse on my external USB drive. it's working ok so far.

do you still have the database archive? if so extract it again. or perhaps better to down load the update file from freedb and then runthe up dater for it. i am thinking your offline database is corrupted somewhere.

[ssuyk]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

I am having similar problems with using an offline freeDB database.
I have a utility for searching the database as well, and I can see that the CD I want track names for is in there.

But the total disc time is about 3 seconds different than what it says in the dbPowerAMP window.

I checked for three discs that dbPowerAMP couldn't name, and it was 3 seconds difference for them all.

Any ideas why this would be happening?

A nice feature would be to let the user search for an album name in the offline freedb, and use it to name the CD tracks.

[ChristinaS]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Does the information otherwise agree? like artist, song?

[ssuyk]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Yes - all the track names are right. I will have a closer look at the detail of what is in the freedb and what DbPowerAMP thinks the CD looks like - offsets/tracktimes etc. and post it here tomorrow.

[max]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

In my case the mistake is also on artist/song name. I found that the error happens if there are many entries in the database for that Disk. (Because other programs list me multiple entries).
If I go on-line I have only one (correct) match.
If you are interested i can upload somewhere an ISO image of the wrong Disk.

[Spoon]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Both make sure that the Options Menu >> Standard CD Player emulation >> TAble of contents detection is unchecked.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

How do you use the offline CD database (that bigarse RAR file in the first post)?

[Spoons]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

yes, you download it from here: http://www.freedb.org/modules.php?na...ticle&artid=12

[Spoon]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

and have to extract it.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

i already extracted and I got these folders that are named by genre. How do I USE them exactly? Razgo, that link you gave me doesn't teach me how.