Sony to Buy Gracenote 146
Ian Lamont writes "Sony is buying Gracenote for $260 million. Sony will use Gracenote's online music database in its own digital content and devices, but Gracenote will operate separately and keep its own management. It's an interesting move, because many other entertainment companies and services depend on the Gracenote database, including iTunes, Yahoo, Winamp, and even the onboard stereo system used in some new Cadillacs. Gracenote has been criticized for turning the once-open CDDB project into a 'quagmire of heavy contracts, licensing fees, forced user registration and anti-competition clauses.'"
Re:You've Got It All Wrong! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:You've Got It All Wrong! (Score:5, Informative)
Musicbrainz (Score:5, Informative)
Seriously. Musicbrainz was created after the CDDB fiasco (and FreeDB had its own share of problems). It operates under a non-profit organization to guarantee its freedom.
And on that feature bullet-point list, they add an API to recognize what that "Unknown Artist - Unknown Title.mp3" file you have.
Re:You've Got It All Wrong! (Score:4, Informative)
In fact, it's downright weird to find proprietary things on the PS3 - GHIII's proprietary wireless dongles just make no sense in the context of how the system operates.
Re:Musicbrainz (Score:2, Informative)
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/FreeDBGateway [musicbrainz.org]
Re:Musicbrainz (Score:1, Informative)
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload
I have to agree with the parent poster, MusicBrainz is by far the best thing going ethically and practically. Enjoy!
Re:SHIT!!! (Score:3, Informative)
(See Point 4 here. [freedb.org] )
Re:freedb (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Musicbrainz (Score:4, Informative)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ieatbrainz/ [sourceforge.net]
Re:freedb (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Musicbrainz (Score:1, Informative)
1A) my taste in music is apparently more obscure than other musicbrainz users' and
1B) If Picard can't figure out the album, I can't figure out how to just tag it myself and move on, while I can type in the fields displayed on the screen, there's no "save" button, and whatever I entered just disappears when I switch to another track. Helpfully it lets me know that I can go to their website and submit the information and in one or two days it will be approved and I might be able to actually tag my music, eventually.
2) I also seem to be unable to override the tags when musicbrainz CAN find the album... despite their "style guide", I still get multi-cd sets with tags like "The Foobars: The Footastic Years" "Foobars: Footastic Years CD 2" "Footastic Years" (with track numbers starting from 53) Even when they ARE consistent, their style guide conflicts with MY style guide.