From abcde at laubster.33mail.com  Thu Mar  2 05:49:00 2023
From: abcde at laubster.33mail.com (Dave Laub)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 22:49:00 -0700
Subject: [Abcde-users] comparing many cddb entries for a disc
Message-ID: <a2958503-c8ab-488b-afdd-56c60520093a@laubster.org>

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.

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?

What I've done lately is start another terminal, cd into abcde's working 
directory, and then isolate the best one with this:

    best=./cddbread.1
    for i in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'cddbread.*' | sort -t. -k3,3n); do
     ??? [ "$best" = "$i" ] && continue
     ??? printf "Comparing $best to $i ...\n"
     ??? diff $best $i
     ??? printf "a or b? [abq] "
     ??? read REPLY
     ??? [ 'q' = "$REPLY" ] && break
     ??? [ 'b' = "$REPLY" ] && best=$i
    done
    echo best is "$best"

Does anyone see value in something like that? If so I'll write a patch & 
submit it.
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