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<p>Louis' recent patch brought something to mind. I recently ripped
the album "Closer" by Joy Division, & was prompted by abcde to
pick from 10 musicbrainz listings (!). It turned out the
differences were minor (the release year a.k.a. DYEAR, and the
comment indicating Disc length). But I know for some other
releases I've ripped, I've encountered more significant
differences & definitely had a preference.<br>
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<p>That leads me to ask: when many releases are returned for a disc,
how do folks decide which to pick? Do you use your terminal
window's scrollbar to repeatedly scroll up/down through the long
output, trying to eyeball the best one? Do you rerun abcde and tee
off the output to a file which you then pop around in with your
favorite text editor, trying to determine the best entry?
Something else?</p>
<p>What I've done lately is start another terminal, cd into abcde's
working directory, and then isolate the best one with this:</p>
<blockquote><font size="4" face="monospace">best=./cddbread.1<br>
for i in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'cddbread.*' | sort -t.
-k3,3n); do<br>
[ "$best" = "$i" ] && continue<br>
printf "Comparing $best to $i ...\n"<br>
diff $best $i<br>
printf "a or b? [abq] "<br>
read REPLY<br>
[ 'q' = "$REPLY" ] && break<br>
[ 'b' = "$REPLY" ] && best=$i<br>
done<br>
echo best is "$best"</font><br>
</blockquote>
Does anyone see value in something like that? If so I'll write a
patch & submit it.<br>
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