Re: FreeDB
- From: "Darragh Ó Héiligh" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:57:23 +0100
I could see the need for this on a PC that wasn't connected to the
internet. As it stands, most media players that support CD wripping
can look up CD's from online CDDB's.
2008/10/10 Nick Stockton <nstockton@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Yes. It's just a database of the track and artest titles.
> it's used in most cd rippers to automaticly label your tracks with the track
> name and artest name when ripping a cd to mp3 files on your hard drive so
> you don't have to label them manualy before putting them on your mp3 player.
> also some media players can access the database when you use them to play a
> cd which is very useful when you otherwise wouldn't have an easy way of
> finding out the track names with out spending time googling for the cd info.
>
> Nick Stockton
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 5:55 AM
> Subject: Re: FreeDB
>
>
>> Oh, ok -- but I still am not understanding something -- you say what is in
>> the "database" is actually templates of cd's that you use to label tracks
>> --
>> that being the case, is the music ever ripped onto a hard drive, or is the
>> info in the database only text labels of tracks plus relational info, and
>> you have to fumble with cd's in order to hear the songs?
>> --le
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 4:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: FreeDB
>>
>>
>> it's not a database of audio files.
>> it's a database of cd info like track and artist info so that when you pop
>> your cd in the drive your music playing software can automaticly label the
>> tracks and tag them.
>>
>> Nick Stockton
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 5:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: FreeDB
>>
>>
>> Wow, so you're saying it already has a music database built up for
>> download.
>> Isn't this piracy? (Of course everyone copies files, but this seems like a
>> major operation.) I say this because I recently spent money on a couple
>> of
>> collections from Time Life that I'd like to rip onto my computer. It was
>> not
>> cheap but I have listened to it and like the selections. I am of the
>> opinion that good artistry should be rewarded and if you like a piece of
>> music it is a good thing to pay for it -- but as I said, we all copy stuff
>> off the net. Just musing.
>> That also brings me to the subject of audio described movie soundtracks,
>> which are available freely for download on the net if you know where to
>> look, but are copyrighted. I have a bunch of them that people have given
>> me, but I handle the piracy issue this way: I listen to the movies and if
>> I
>> like them I order a copy of the full DVD from AudioVision for my
>> collection,
>> otherwise if the movie stinks, I delete it.
>> Just a thought. Comments?
>> Anyway, thanks for the link.
>> --le
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:55 PM
>> Subject: FreeDB
>>
>>
>> Hi All. If like me, you are a music fanatic, have a vast music
>> collection
>> which ranges from classical to Jazz to Pop to Rock and would like to have
>> them organized and propperly tagged so you can find them whenever you want
>> them, then I'd like to recommend a free, open source, programmable music
>> database called FreeDb www.freedb.org
>> If you visit it's download page, You'll find the following:
>> 1. complete database files which are updated from month to month.
>> 2. Update files which when you download accompanying utilities, and
>> together with the update files wich are smaller in comparison, will update
>> your database so you don't have to download the complete files which are
>> rather large, upwards of 500 MB every month.
>> 3. An accompanying howto that will help you to develop stand alone
>> FreeDB
>> related software, for example software that will update, submit or mirror
>> your database in a network.
>> 4. A server that will allow you to submit and retrieve database updates
>> as and when you like. However, the server software requires some
>> technical
>> know how to build and configure as it is not a straight forward gui
>> software.
>> The files are in the unix format by default, but you could change them to
>> the windows format via a utility called mkfreedb.exe. If anyone wants to
>> host this utility on their server, let me know and i will send it along as
>> the website for this utility is rather obscure and I came across it only
>> after a thorough search of google.
>> Here is a synopsis of the steps you'll need to take to download the
>> database and the utilities described.
>> 1. Go to www.freedb.org and click the download page. By default, you'll
>> land on the server download page. Click parent directory. Unfortunately,
>> this directory has no headings to mark where each subsection exactly is,
>> so
>> use your tab and arrow keys to find what you need.
>> If you want to download the complete database, then you'll need to look
>> for files with words "freedb-complete" followed by the year month day date
>> format.
>> so, for example, if you want to download the complete database for
>> october, then you should look for the file tagged as:
>> freedb-complete-20081001.tar.bz2, which translates to year 2008, month
>> october, and date as the first of that month.
>> If you downloaded the complete database for september for example, and
>> you
>> want to update your database to october's, just download the:
>> freedb-update-20081001.tar.bz2 which is consideraably smaller, about 7 mb
>> in size.
>> Once you have those, download a zip file called freedb-updater.zip which
>> contains a freedb.exe updater file. All you need do then is to unpack the
>> complete september database files into a directory, say music-database.
>> Then double click the updater.exe and browse to your music-database
>> folder,
>> then browse again to your updater file, freedb-update-20081001.tar.bz2,
>> then
>> tab to the start button and your september database will be updated to the
>> current one. Btw, be prepared to give your database folder at least 4 gb
>> of
>> disk space.
>> Now, if you wanted to change the format of your database files from the
>> unix format to the windows format, just do the following.
>> 1. create a folder. We'll call it music-windows-database for
>> clarification.
>> 2. copy and paste the complete database file, and the mkfreedb.exe which
>> i
>> will send along to any one who wants it to your music-windows-database
>> folder.
>> 3. open your command prompt and cd to your music-windows-database
>> directory, so assuming your directory is on your C drive, the command is:
>> cd c:\music-windows-database
>> Now, all you have to do is to issue the command
>> mkfreebd, and your windows database will be built with all its default
>> structure, and the database files copied to the appropriate
>> subdirectories.
>> Your music-windows-directory will then contain the following
>> subdirectories and a log text file.
>> 1. blues where all the blues music data files will be copied.
>> 2. Classical where all the classical music data files will be copied.
>> 3. country where all the country music data files will be copied
>> 4. data, where all the data files necessary for the database to function
>> will be copied
>> 5. folk where all the folk music data files will be copied
>> 6. jazz, where all the jazz music data files will be copied
>> 7. misc where all the miscellanious music data files will be copied.
>> 8. newage where all new age music data files will be copied.
>> 9. reggae where all reggae music data files will be copied.
>> 10. rock where all rock and pop music data files will be copied.
>> 11. soundtrack where all film soundtrack music data files will be copied.
>> 12. a log file will be created to tell you how the build process
>> transpired
>> Warning: please note that the conversion of files from unix to windows
>> format takes hours. I did my conversion yesterday evening my time, and
>> the
>> conversion process is still going on as i write this email. This is
>> hardly
>> surprising as there are millions of cds floating around in the music
>> market
>> out there.
>> Once you have organized your database, You can then use programs such as
>> mp3 tag
>> www.mp3tag.de to tag and organize your music. You can even store the
>> music data in the recognized dbms like mysql, microsoft access or any dbms
>> of your choice.
>> first create the following tables.
>> 1. artist
>> 2. title
>> 3. album
>> 4. year
>> 5. publisher
>> 6 track number.
>> Give the files in your database the sql extension, then load them as a
>> dump into mysql or the dbms of your choice.
>> If you need any more clarification, please let me know. Cheers and happy
>> tagging.
>>
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