Automated Allmusic lookup
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:25 pm
My main problem with CDDB or freedb or similar services is that I almost never have entire CDs on my hard drive - I only have songs that I actually like. As such, I can't look up any of my music on CDDB or freedb, which require an entire album. I'd like a service that can fill in missing ID3 tag information track-by-track. I've tried Moodlogic and MusicBrainz etc, but, well, they suck. Also, it shouldn't be necessary to develop an "audio fingerprint" if, for example, the "artist" and "song name" ID3 tags are there - everything else about the track should be able to be filled in just from that (if the program can assume you want info from teh earliest album on which the song appears).
To my knowledge, no such database exists without using the abovementioned audiofingerprints that take an unnecessary lot of time and processing power to develop the fingerprint and search it against an online database.
However, allmusic.com is a very extensive 'database' of artist, song, album and other related information, just waiting to be tapped. But as of yet, there is no program that can automatically do this - you'd have to look up the songs one by one in a browser and manually add the track information. For a few tracks, this is no problem. For thousands, this is totally impractical.
So, I'm wondering: first, is there a program that miraculously does what I've described already that I for some reason haven't heard of? And if not, would it be possible to use MediaMonkey scripts to do this (albiet, it'd be a very complicated script), or are MediaMonkey scripts simply not powerful enough for this?
I don't know anything about MediaMonkey scripts yet, so that's why I'm asking - perhaps the rest of you might know something.
To my knowledge, no such database exists without using the abovementioned audiofingerprints that take an unnecessary lot of time and processing power to develop the fingerprint and search it against an online database.
However, allmusic.com is a very extensive 'database' of artist, song, album and other related information, just waiting to be tapped. But as of yet, there is no program that can automatically do this - you'd have to look up the songs one by one in a browser and manually add the track information. For a few tracks, this is no problem. For thousands, this is totally impractical.
So, I'm wondering: first, is there a program that miraculously does what I've described already that I for some reason haven't heard of? And if not, would it be possible to use MediaMonkey scripts to do this (albiet, it'd be a very complicated script), or are MediaMonkey scripts simply not powerful enough for this?
I don't know anything about MediaMonkey scripts yet, so that's why I'm asking - perhaps the rest of you might know something.