- MusicBrainz does not contain any genre information
- MusicBrainz does not contain any composer information
- The release dates are broken down by country
MusicBrainz vs. FreeDB
MusicBrainz vs. FreeDB
I'm in the process of changing the FreeDB support in Max over to MusicBrainz. I have never really used MusicBrainz before, but as can probably be expected, it offers different types of data than FreeDB. I've noticed the following main differences:
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Re: MusicBrainz vs. FreeDB
With many of my CDs I've found that Freedb isn't likely to have this information either - at least, it might have "genre" and might get it right; it probably won't have "composer".sbooth wrote:Is the lack of downloadable genre/composer information something that concerns people?
I haven't used MusicBrainz and so can't comment on it. But if the only drawback is lack of information for those two fields, I think there's no problem, because I don't think anyone can count on them being populated correctly, or at all, with Freedb.
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Genre is so subjective and the freedb taxonomy such a horrible mishmash, that unless genre comes from a more semi-authoritative source (like allmusic even though I question some of their choices as well), I'm not missing anything. I don't often make playlists based on genre.
As for composer, I don't currently have tons of classical or baroque style music in my collection aside from a few favorite pieces. As I hope to purchase more eventually, this might become an issue but in the meantime, I am sure my uptake of this style of music will be slow enough a few more handwritten tags are probably no big deal.
As for composer, I don't currently have tons of classical or baroque style music in my collection aside from a few favorite pieces. As I hope to purchase more eventually, this might become an issue but in the meantime, I am sure my uptake of this style of music will be slow enough a few more handwritten tags are probably no big deal.
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Are you able to query MusicBrainz by pressing the button in the toolbar? (You might have to delete your preferences file to have it show up.)chicken wrote:hi there. I just joined this forum but have been a Max-user for at least a year now. I just downloaded Max-982 and neither MusicBrainz or FreeDB will work when I insert a CD. Is anyone else having this problem?
i think i messed up the query settingssbooth wrote:Are you able to query MusicBrainz by pressing the button in the toolbar? (You might have to delete your preferences file to have it show up.)chicken wrote:hi there. I just joined this forum but have been a Max-user for at least a year now. I just downloaded Max-982 and neither MusicBrainz or FreeDB will work when I insert a CD. Is anyone else having this problem?

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This is something I am trying to figure out. MusicBrainz stores release dates by country, so I'm not sure how to determine which one to grab. However, as best I can tell there are no dates for tracks, only for albums.shanecavanaugh wrote:Can Max grab the year information for albums and individual tracks?
I've been thinking about this, and I've come up with a proposal. Because Max only handles dates in the YYYY format, not YYYY-MM-DD, I think things becomes slightly easier. Anyway, this is what I've been thinking, there are four possible situations:sbooth wrote:This is something I am trying to figure out. MusicBrainz stores release dates by country, so I'm not sure how to determine which one to grab...
(1) There is no release date set on MB -> Max doesn't need to retrieve anything.
(2) There is only one release date set -> Max retrieves the year.
(3) There are multiple release dates but they all have the same year value -> Max retrieves any of them, because they all yield the same year.
(4) There are multiple release dates with different year values -> three possibilities (I think):
- a Pop up a window asking which date to choose
- b Have a preference option in the 'Musicbrainz' panel for which country to choose by default
- c Choose the earliest date listed.
The other thing I thought of was to make the 'Year' field a popup the same way the 'Genre' field is. That way the user could just choose the release date they wanted.
Just my two cents,
Nils