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An old request for metadata providers:
- Discogs
- Amazon (even with a nagging "If you like this album, we recommend [x, y, z], click to buy" if user chooses to use Amazon)
- I think I recall EliC has also requested Muze
- Multiple hits from all providers
A few related or semi-related requests:
1) A two-stage process where first, in the course of determining which CD (in case where there are two different titles matching) one disregards some typography (like, capitalization and non-alphanumeric characters are removed for internal purposes) and only in the second stage they are used to determine the exact spelling; this for example eliminates cases where GD and Freedb have the same title, overriding AMG, but different spelling of a track.
2) A user option for fussiness of spelling for first step in #1. Then a user option to disregard completely matches which are outvoted in the first step of the request in #1
3) A (regexp-based?) scoring system based on tags. Like, e.g.: My CDs are mainly rock to metal, so I would like to score up metadata hits which have that in a genre tag. Also, I would like to score down hits which have no tracktitle information at all or are incomplete in other ways (where user should be able to choose what constitutes incompleteness) -- it has happened that a CD gets artist and title from AMG and all track names from somewhere else because AMG has no tracktitle information. (Both these examples are for the stage one choice mentioned in #1.)
User should be able to store scoring system by profile.
4) For file formats which support freetext tagging (like Vorbis), an option to include a DBPOWERAMP_ALTERNATIVE_TAGSET tag including all retrieved tags for the disc -- and then a way to choose afterwards using dBpoweramp's tag editor. (OK, a proprietary solution off standards, but nevertheless better than nothing, and brilliant for Batch Ripper; if the user thinks (s)he got the wrong file from ripping, it can be fixed afterwards -- and also you might spread the gospel to users who buy ripping services by letting them now that with dBp they have access to alternative tagsets.)
- Discogs
- Amazon (even with a nagging "If you like this album, we recommend [x, y, z], click to buy" if user chooses to use Amazon)
- I think I recall EliC has also requested Muze
- Multiple hits from all providers
A few related or semi-related requests:
1) A two-stage process where first, in the course of determining which CD (in case where there are two different titles matching) one disregards some typography (like, capitalization and non-alphanumeric characters are removed for internal purposes) and only in the second stage they are used to determine the exact spelling; this for example eliminates cases where GD and Freedb have the same title, overriding AMG, but different spelling of a track.
2) A user option for fussiness of spelling for first step in #1. Then a user option to disregard completely matches which are outvoted in the first step of the request in #1
3) A (regexp-based?) scoring system based on tags. Like, e.g.: My CDs are mainly rock to metal, so I would like to score up metadata hits which have that in a genre tag. Also, I would like to score down hits which have no tracktitle information at all or are incomplete in other ways (where user should be able to choose what constitutes incompleteness) -- it has happened that a CD gets artist and title from AMG and all track names from somewhere else because AMG has no tracktitle information. (Both these examples are for the stage one choice mentioned in #1.)
User should be able to store scoring system by profile.
4) For file formats which support freetext tagging (like Vorbis), an option to include a DBPOWERAMP_ALTERNATIVE_TAGSET tag including all retrieved tags for the disc -- and then a way to choose afterwards using dBpoweramp's tag editor. (OK, a proprietary solution off standards, but nevertheless better than nothing, and brilliant for Batch Ripper; if the user thinks (s)he got the wrong file from ripping, it can be fixed afterwards -- and also you might spread the gospel to users who buy ripping services by letting them now that with dBp they have access to alternative tagsets.)
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