Music genre in AMV info

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:08 am

I like the idea of tying into CDDB. That could really help with genre associations - and provide a good way to keep the artist/song entries pretty clean (the future ones, at least). If someone really can't find it on CDDB, then let them list under some other name - but don't add that name to the list. This would prevent mislabels and misspellings from encouraging further mislabeling and misspelling.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:52 am

rose4emily wrote:I like the idea of tying into CDDB. That could really help with genre associations - and provide a good way to keep the artist/song entries pretty clean (the future ones, at least). If someone really can't find it on CDDB, then let them list under some other name - but don't add that name to the list. This would prevent mislabels and misspellings from encouraging further mislabeling and misspelling.

Actually, we'd have to tie into freedb, I believe CDDB charges a licencing fee for commercial access to the Gracenote database.

Of course, as I've said already in this thread, none of this matters until the music database is cleaned up...

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:02 am

dokool wrote:Actually, we'd have to tie into freedb, I believe CDDB charges a licencing fee for commercial access to the Gracenote database.

The org qualifies as commercial?

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:14 am

Kalium wrote:
dokool wrote:Actually, we'd have to tie into freedb, I believe CDDB charges a licencing fee for commercial access to the Gracenote database.
The org qualifies as commercial?

Well, the 'org would have to integrate the CDDB database into the code, and I think that's where the fee comes in. It may be free for us to visit Gracenote and search for a song, but for software to include CDDB verification there's a fee. That's why DVD rippers all use freedb, because there isn't a licencing fee...