[mb-users] Is it time to stop auto importing from FreeDB?

[Dave Evans]

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Alexander Dupuy wrote:
> Just to check on this - are you only suggesting turning off the
> import of albums; in those cases where the FreeDB entry matches an
> existing entry, will the disc id still be automatically added (by the
> FreeDB moderator)?  I think that adding disc ids (as opposed to
> importing albums) automatically is still useful.

Hmmm, you've lost me there.  Automatically adding disc ids?  I can't
think of anywhere in the system where that happens.

Quoting the synopsis of
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/wiki.pl?AutoInsertFromFreeDB :

> 1. A web service request is made (via libmusicbrainz) for the
> "GetCDInfo?" call.

No change.

> 2. The requested discid is looked up in MB; if it is found, the
> matching album is returned, and the process ends.

No change.

> 3. Otherwise, MB does a "fuzzy" lookup on the track lengths (i.e. it
> looks for an album in MB which has the same number of tracks, which
> has a disc ID, and where the lengths of all the tracks are about the
> same). If it finds a matching album, it is returned, and the process
> ends.

Due to patent issues, we'll almost certainly have remove this step.
We're currently collecting data so we can analyse (in a week or so) how
much this will actually affect things.

> 4. Otherwise, MB looks up the album on FreeDB. If it is not found in
> FreeDB, then a "not found" result is returned, and the process ends.

No change.

> 5. If it is found, then the FreeDB album data might be automatically
> added into MB. Or it might not. Either way, the FreeDB album is then
> returned.

The proposed change is that the found FreeDB album would NEVER be
automatically added to MB.  The found FreeDB album would still be
returned to the caller though.

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Dave

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