[solved] Ripping CDs no longer retrieves artist or track name (2 Viewers)

[IllustriousGuru]

Now that ripping CDs no longer crashes Mediaportal with a special release of 1.39, it seems that Mediaportal still tries to access freedb.freedb.org to retrieve artist and track names. This site was retired in 2020 and no longer works. Can we access another online database to replicate what freedb used to?

 

[ajs]

Can we access another online database to replicate what freedb used to?

Like what, for example? Well, something that would let you retrieve the information from a CD using a mold.

 

[IllustriousGuru]

Like what, for example? Well, something that would let you retrieve the information from a CD using a mold.

Further research uncovered MPTagThat which rips and recovers info for the tracks so I'm going to use that instead

 

[ajs]

Further research uncovered MPTagThat which rips and recovers info for the tracks so I'm going to use that instead

That's one way to do it. But if you find a reliable data source, we can try adding it to MP.

 

[IllustriousGuru]

Well, there's MusicBrainz and Gnudb.org

 

[ajs]

MusicBrainz and Gnudb.org

As far as I recall, they can't obtain data from a CD mold—only from tectonic data—and they usually return not just one precise result, but a list of possible ones.

 

[ajs]

freedb.freedb.org

We could try switching to gnudb.org, but I understand we'd need to register MediaPortal there. @high , is there any way we can do this officially? So we don't have to pretend to be, say, CDex or something like that.

gnudb.org CD database developer info

gnudb.org technical info

gnudb.org

 

[high]

No idea, just send them an email, I guess

 

[ajs]

No idea, just send them an email, I guess

They want us to send an email from our official email address... It's really strange why, but that's just how it is.

 

[high]

np, just send me the text by pm