[mb-users] Convert CDDB discID to Musicbrainz discID

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/11/23, Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish at earthlink.net>:
>
> When I ripped my CD collection, I didn't know about Musicbrainz, so my
> collection is organized around the CDDB discID.  Now that I am switching
> to
> Musicbrainz, I would like to convert the CDDB discID to the appropriate
> Musicbrainz discID.  If CDDB stored the TOC, then I suppose it would be
> possible to use it to compute the Musicbrainz discID.  However, I haven't
> been able to find any evidence that CDDB has the TOC.  The next best
> solution that I can think of is to insert each CD in my collection in the
> CD drive so that I can read the TOC and compute both disc IDs.  Then I can
> modify my database appropriately to use the Musicbrainz discID without
> actually re-ripping the CDs.  Is there a better way that I am missing?



When you say "collection", I am not sure you are speaking of a series of mp3
files or of some kind of database. In the first case, if in your collection
albums are still separated, I would drag each album to Picard and let him
recover the MB info.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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