[Abcde-users] Anybody considered adding Discogs as yet another CDDB source?
Steve McIntyre
steve at einval.com
Wed Sep 7 15:56:30 BST 2016
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 04:43:31PM +0200, Johannes Gernemann wrote:
>Discogs as another cddb method for abcde would be great! Many open source
>tools already support their API. Have a look at
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discogs#Discogs-aware_Meta-Data_Software
>They also have lots of album art / cover pictures in their database. If
>anyone could add discogs to abcde I will be happy to update the getalbumart()
>section
>
>Yet another great database is gracenote (even though there is some
>controversy in the foss world about it). My bluray player is using the
>gracenote database and has never failed looking up a CD. As far as I
>understand it, they have an open API and wrappers for different programming
>languages, but you need a developer ID
>https://developer.gracenote.com/web-api
Patches welcome, I guess. :-)
Hoping to look at Gabriel's ordering patch ASAP, then we could allow
for calling a whole sequence of cddb methods.
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