[mb-users] Convert CDDB discID to Musicbrainz discID

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/11/24, Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish at earthlink.net>:
>
> Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You are essentially correct.  In my sound archive, the tracks from a CD
> are
> stored in a directory whose name is the CDDB discID of the CD.  Tracks are
> ogg files.
>
> I managed to get PicardQt to run on my system, but I am still trying to
> figure out how it works.  Are you suggesting that I use the Scan function
> to identify the album from a PUID?  Assuming that the album is in the MB
> database and the fingerprinting works correctly, I can see that this
> technique would work.  However, I fear that many of my albums are not in
> the MB database because they are classical.


Well, MB does have some classical releases, although not as many of them as
some of us would like. You are definitely welcome to add the missing
releases!


-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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