Hi there,
It's a great music database software you've developed! The best among i saw. Contratulations!
I'm a developer myself and want to suggest a feature with other users might appreciate -
freedb support for mp3 albums
I started to develop a similar music db program some time ago, but then I've lost most of my code, so i've decided to stop the project.
I had such feature for finding mp3 album info on freedb and it worked sutisfactory.
Here's how it worked:
1. Send selected mp3s (of a folder) to queue - sorted by track number.
2. Calculate diskid
- this one was a bit tricky, but i got a recognizable diskid at the end
3. Check diskid on freedb
4. Store song info
If you want i can e-mail you the code i had for calculating diskid for mp3s.
Note: Some CDs don't have any pause between track. Most of the CDs have a 2 sec pause. And this matters for diskid calculation.
So this can we either asked from the user in step 1,
or it can be done automatically: calculate 2 diskids (with pauses and without), check both and present all results to choose the right one.
Hope you can implement this feature in future versions of Song-DB.
Best regards,
Mikhail Diatchenko
mikhail@clc.co.nz