CDDB replacement?
So Gracenote (formerly cddb) stopped offering their free online album database, effectively making their website worthless.
But is there any replacement? What do you guys use (if anything)?
For those unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, it was basically a site where you could type in an artist, and see every album/single/whatever that artist released as well as track listings. It even had album art for more popular ones (though I'm less interested in that).
But is there any replacement? What do you guys use (if anything)?
For those unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, it was basically a site where you could type in an artist, and see every album/single/whatever that artist released as well as track listings. It even had album art for more popular ones (though I'm less interested in that).
That's not quite what I was looking for, but is cool nonetheless.
So you can just grab any song and listen to it? Pretty sweet.
I'm looking for more of an organizational structure. Like you type in a band name and it tells you all the released albums (and possibly year of release - but that would be sugar)
Grooveshark seems to be a dump of all the songs it has available, not really all the songs that X band released. There's lots of duplicates, it's not really organized, etc.
Still, very cool link.
Any other suggestions?
So you can just grab any song and listen to it? Pretty sweet.
I'm looking for more of an organizational structure. Like you type in a band name and it tells you all the released albums (and possibly year of release - but that would be sugar)
Grooveshark seems to be a dump of all the songs it has available, not really all the songs that X band released. There's lots of duplicates, it's not really organized, etc.
Still, very cool link.
Any other suggestions?
I know about freedb.org. It seems more like an automated site that CD players and the like connect to download album info. It's not set up well for user browsing.
Take one specific example. Right now I want to find an album list for The Delgados.
What I would like is:
- Go to a site
- Search for Delgados
- Get a list of all bands with names similar to Delgados
- I pick which band I want
- It gives me a comprehensive list of albums released by that band
CDDB was the closest thing I've ever seen to this.
freedb just throws all sorts of crap at you and leaves it to you to figure out which entries are real, which are duplicates, which are from the band you're actually looking for, which are just plain wrong, etc.
Can you elaborate further?
Take one specific example. Right now I want to find an album list for The Delgados.
What I would like is:
- Go to a site
- Search for Delgados
- Get a list of all bands with names similar to Delgados
- I pick which band I want
- It gives me a comprehensive list of albums released by that band
CDDB was the closest thing I've ever seen to this.
freedb just throws all sorts of crap at you and leaves it to you to figure out which entries are real, which are duplicates, which are from the band you're actually looking for, which are just plain wrong, etc.
| youtube.com + a bit of screwing around with the browser. |
Can you elaborate further?
At some point, the data from a website has to enter the browser in a form that can be rendered into an image + sound. Safari (and maybe some other browsers, I'm haven't tried this with Firefox, IE, or Chrome) have an activity monitor which can be used to monitor the loading of individual elements. Since Youtube movies are generally larger than most of the other page elements, they're easily distinguishable, and with enough clicks, they can be recorded to a specified downloads folder.
From there, you can convert the FLV into an MPEG, strip the image and convert it into a standard audio file.
EDIT: It turns out I misunderstood the question. Apologies, all!
-Albatross
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