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Topic: Mass-calculate CDDB ids and check for artist match  (Read 1173 times) previous topic - next topic
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Mass-calculate CDDB ids and check for artist match

- preferably "fuzzy".

What I "want": an application that for each folder
* tries to look up whether the files match a CDDB (yeah, gnudb nowadays) entry of at least the same artist (album too, but here we often run into spelling differences)
and if there is such a match:
* writes the CDDB ID to tag or some other reporting, but leaves other tags untouched. (The latter I can work my way around though.)

E.g., is there a way to get Picard to this, or to calculate CDDB ID from Musicbrainz ID?


Why, you may ask? I largely identify my CD rips by their 8-character CDDB disc ID (with some secondary characteristic to distinguish collisions yes, but those are manageable). I would later do some workarounds for lossless download purchases - and still those are largely CD masters (sometimes even CD rips with EAC/dBpoweramp tags in the files - that goes for some lossy purchases too).

And to the extent lossies are the same, I'd like that tag.

Also I have a lot of bootleg downloads, some of which come with "lineage" information, like "tape recorder RRR with microphone MMM --> cassette player PPP to soundcard SSS --> audacity normalization --> wave", some of which is made-up by someone who rips a bootleg CD, uploads it and pretends it to be their own recording. (Then on the other hand, there are enough bootleg CDRs burned from .shn downloads back in the day.)