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[Bogdan Butnaru]

I tend to agree with most of the discussion here. If anyone has any
more good sites, please tell us about them, I'll add a list on the
wiki page some time soon. I haven't seen any links for classical
databases, for example.

freedb I agree is quite inaccurate, I didn't even thought of
mentioning it. But I will add a note about it, often I see people
adding CDs from there thinking it proves something. However, it is
useful, when used carefully, because it actually has track times.

On the other side, I don't have a very good impression on official
sites. This is probably not universally true, but most of the time I
found them so-so on accuracy and not very detailed. A dedicated fan
site (though not every band has one) and a genre-specific site (like
Metal Archives) tend to have very detailed and accurate info, up to
things like the number of copies an obscure demo tape from 1982 was
released in. It's not always like that, true, but few official sites
I've seen are this accurate.

On 11/8/06, Edward Branham <ebb at usa.net> wrote:
> On artist sites I find one of three things:
>
> 1)  The artist is interested and it is pretty good re. history.
> (BobDylan.com for instance)
> 2)  The record company sponsors the site and is focused on the latest
> release
> 3)  The neither the artist nor the record company are very interested in
> the site.
>
> Most of the time, fan sites are much better sources, as fanatics whose
> lives revolve around getting everything and getting it right.  A
> question or two to the forum of a particular fan site will usually
> garner all the information you asked, and much that you did not!
>
> However ... very few sources seem to include track times.
>
> Rob Keeney wrote:
>
> > One other point. I actually trust AMG more than some of the artist
> > sites. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a general sloppiness
> > and 'I don't care about accuracy' attitude at artist sites?
> >
> > Rob............
> >
> > On 11/7/06, Steve Wyles <steve at inhouse.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Rob Keeney wrote:
> >>
> >> > Not sure where this fits into your list of Best to Bad but I like to
> >> > use AllMusic.com (AMG). I find it mostly reliable. I don't like that
> >> > user input is slow to implement (if ever) but otherwise a good
> >> > resource.
> >> >
> >> > Rob...............
> >>
> >> I would put AMG under So-So and I would add freedb (in all its guises)
> >> plus sites that get their data directly from there under bad.
> >>
> >> Steve

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