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Topic: Submitting to FreeDB from already compressed albums? (Read 2314 times) previous topic - next topic
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Submitting to FreeDB from already compressed albums?

I found no possibility to submit tag infos to FreeDB from already ripped/compressed albums. No program I tried does that (EAC, foobar2000, CDex, Tag&Rename, ...) - you obviously can only submit to FreeDB while ripping from CD (with rippers like EAC or CDex), but all tagging apps I tried only support reading from FreeDB, not submitting to it. And rippers won't understand the compressed files at all....

Does anyone know any app that will do this?

Submitting to FreeDB from already compressed albums?

Reply #1 –
I'm not sure what you are trying to do here, but FreeDB is strictly intended for use with standard redbook CDs. It is based on information about the CD that is missing from the individual files, whether compressed or not.

Submitting to FreeDB from already compressed albums?

Reply #2 –
Since apps like Tag&Rename, MP3Tag, etc. can get the tags for compressed albums from FreeDB I thought it would be the same in the other direction. If I understand correctly, FreeDB only uses CRC sums for the tracks, not offset information like it is stored in CUE sheets. So I thought it doesn't do any harm to the integrity of FreeDB and does not falsify the album information. But that seems to be a wrong assumption, as you said.

I only want to upload the tags for CDs I borrowed from friends, since I had no internet connection when I ripped them with EAC. I gave the CDs back already, so my encoded versions is all I got left.