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I open a FLAC file with Tag. I enter the year. I select a genre. I enter a composer. I save the file. I quit Tag. I open the same file with Tag and the composer field is blank. I find that if I do not click in another field after entering data in a field, then the data entered in that field is not s...

My desire is that when I rip to FLAC, I get the most/all/best data into the FLAC meta.

After that (this week), I don't care.

You decide what is best as you pay much more attention to this that I do.

Did I tell that I LOVE Max.

sbooth wrote:It would not be difficult to add the FreeDB code back in if people wanted support for both.

That would be very nice.

It is clear to me that FreeDB has a better database design (not necessarily better data) than MusicBrainz.

Well, I just ripped/encoded an album (Dreamgirls, 2CD, soundtrack) using Max 0.7. MusicBrains stinks. I am not blaming SteveB for anything, as I understand the issues around music databases. MusicBrainz stinks because: The database does not have enough fields. For example: artist. Who is the artist?...

FreeDB appears to be alive.
"It's alive."

So, can we have a choice in Max?

No.

1. I have found that genre info is not very accurate for jazz albums.

2. The composer data on freedb is worthless most of the time. I usually take composer info from the liner notes and manually enter it for each song into FLAC files usinig Tag and into AAC (mp4) files using iTunes.

,dave

Imam299,

Yes.

If the album cover art exists at Amazon.com

If the art at Amazon is the quality that you desire.

,dave

From a comment at SlashDot. "I am the author of freedb2.org. It currently supports a subset of the old freedb protocol, enough to rip your CD's. Just point your software at http://freedb2.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi [freedb2.org]. There are also some new features which I will be documenting shortly. For some...

Sithgunner, 0. Start with a CD that you know has cover art on the website you plan to use. 1. Insert CD. 2. Launch Max. 3. Click on the "Album Art" icon and a side window opens. 4. Go up to the main Max menu and select "Compact Disc" and then select "Download Album Art..." 5. Click on "Use Selected"...

Have not.
Don't know what "svn" is.
Am waiting for beta version of Max.

JadeNB's remarks are much more useful than mine.

aBrowser,

I can't respond regarding MP3 as I never use it.

With regards to FLAC. FLAC does not support "art" as part of its meta data, as far as I can tell.

,dave

arrakian,

I am not an expert, but I looked up AIFF at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIFF and it does not appear to support artwork as one its "chunks".

,dave

I am not having a submit problem, I am having a query problem with FreeDB. I always use the default of CDDBP, Port 8880 and did not have a problem until today. Happened with 2 different CDs. Changed to HTTP, Port 80 and it worked. I found this on the FreeDB website: In the past few days we did some ...

herman, I was somewhat confused. Now, I am not. 1. a. Rip to FLAC for archival purposes. FLAC because it is an open-source standard. I save my FLAC files (along with artwork (i.e., album cover) and lyrics) on 2 separate hard drives. b. Don't save the .wav files. No point. FLAC takes half the space a...