Local Freedb Errors

[LtData]

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.

Point CDGRab to it, I would assume. Click FreeDB --> Servers, then point it to the local database.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

to the individual files or the RAR file as a whole?

[9thlife]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Expect I'm being really daft here. But is it possible to point dbpowerAMP at a Linux 'box' set up on my LAN with Freedb installed.

Have managed to get CDex to work, but really would prefer to use powerAMP !

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Expect I'm being really daft here. But is it possible to point dbpowerAMP at a Linux 'box' set up on my LAN with Freedb installed.

Have managed to get CDex to work, but really would prefer to use powerAMP !

I don't understand your question.

[LtData]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

Expect I'm being really daft here. But is it possible to point dbpowerAMP at a Linux 'box' set up on my LAN with Freedb installed.

Have managed to get CDex to work, but really would prefer to use powerAMP !

As long as the file is shared and the computer can see it, I don't see why not.

[Spoons]

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.

dbpoweramp install options-->audio cd handling

[Spoon]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

In Audio CD Input >> Options >> select freedb line and click settings (or similar) set it to use the offline database at the location (BTW the Windows database is needed, not the linux database).

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

i got it to work. thanks

[9thlife]

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As long as the file is shared and the computer can see it, I don't see why not.

Sorry, seems I wasn't clear enough in describing what I would like to do.

I've built a computer out of left-over bits, installed RedHat / Fedora as the operating system, connected it into my Windows LAN, and got it all working okay.

I've downloaded the Linux database and installed that onto the Linux machine. This works fine from the Linux computer, AND is fine from a Windows machine IF I use CDex software.

It all goes pants when I try to go back to using dBpowerAMP Converter.

[LtData]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

...(BTW the Windows database is needed, not the linux database).

As Spoon says, you need the Windows database. Sorry.

[9thlife]

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As Spoon says, you need the Windows database. Sorry.

nah? surely you can't put the Windows database onto a Linux computer??

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

is it possible to use it under WINE?

[9thlife]

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is it possible to use it under WINE?

So I take a Linux database that's been hacked to death and severly compromised into a Bill Gates acceptable format, then emulate his systemas well; all on a UNIX machine, just so that db can see it?

[Spoon]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

The problem is (and this is why there are 2 databases), for older windows (and possibly any over the network), you cannot have more than 65,000 files per folder and the freedb data did. The windows db combines records to keep the file count down.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Local Freedb Errors

is that just a rule that Microsoft set in? only 65,000 files?