Attn Dale FreeDB and iTunes

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John Lockwood - 30 Mar 2007 16:29 GMT

I know Dale, that you prefer FreeDB over Gracenote CDDB and that over [yuck]
the Microsoft database.

I cam across this utility recently and while it is not a perfect solution
for you, I thought you might be interested.

There is now a new utility available for use with iTunes called "CD Stack"
which is designed to rip a bunch of CDs as efficiently as possible. It
encodes them using LAME MP3 (regarded as the best MP3 implementation), and
it looks up track details from the FreeDB database (not Gracenote or other).
It will then optionally automatically add the results to your iTunes
library.

What's the catch you may ask?

Answer: its only available for the Mac.

Note: in theory you could use this on a Mac and share the iTunes folder to a
PC, or have the Mac directly save to a PC shared folder.

Details are available here http://www.kapraet.com/

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Dale - 31 Mar 2007 02:42 GMT

Interesting - and thanks for thinking of me.

Apple publishes an iTunes API similar to the WMP APIs from Microsoft. I
suppose it would be easy enough to port that to Windows or to write an
application to do that in Windows but writing workarounds for the problems
in WMP is a big enough job that it takes up every minute that I have for
doing free development work. I doubt I would ever find the time to take on
a whole new set of problems. :)

Dale

>I know Dale, that you prefer FreeDB over Gracenote CDDB and that over
>[yuck]
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> Details are available here http://www.kapraet.com/

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