Any one know a good music database?

[knutinh]

My premises are:
-Storage is cheap (keep as much info for every file as possible)
-Computing time is cheap (this is a one-time operation)
-The users free-time is expensive
-Good tags should never be replaced by bad ones

Since humans can do it, I have no doubt that it CAN be done computationally. I also guess that our human database is smaller than any FREEDB/CDDB. However, this is touching AI, and I guess that someone with actual experience in that field can crush all my hypothetical ideas? =)

In one perspective, one is doing an inverse lookup of the CD ID. When you are ripping a CD, FREEDB will do a database query based on a unique code on the CD. This gives very solid information. If only that ID can be found for a set of files forming a CD, then obtaining good tags is a piece of cake.

-k

[onkl]

The only tagger which works more or less by itself in my knowledge is the Picard tagger by musicbrainz.org (still in heavy beta, yet quite usable.) It scans your files, autotags files with a (useradjustable) overlap with known files and gives suggestions for other files.