[Abcde-users] Abcde-users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1

[Pete Collins]

Re:  Failback for musicbrainz failure?

Hi Geoff,

Are the CDs definitely not in musicbrainz? Have you searched for them using
Musicbrainz Picard directly rather than through abcde?

Pete

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> Howdy all.
>   I'm progressing through a long process of ripping a couple thousand CD's
> into a digital collection. I've setup several old laptops to keep the pace
> going and abcde is KILLING it for me. Its such a great tool.
>
>   However some of my CD's are old and I've found several that aren't listed
> in musicbrainz but are listed in CDDB.  Currently I just wrap abcde around
> some bash scripting so that if it produces a "Unknown Artist" directory, it
> kills the autorip process.  I've noticed that in nearly all these cases the
> CD is discovered in CDDB.  Instead of creating a "one off" stack for a
> laptop that is configured to use CDDB, is there a way for abcde to
> fail-back onto CDDB in the event of a "not found" situation with
> musicbrainz. I was hoping it was as easy as overloading the config like so:
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> CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz,cddb
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> But that doesn't seem to work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff
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