Anyone who wants to write foo_accuraterip_db?, Plugin for checking any tracks Options

[Fandango]

Hi,

why is there no plugin that checks any selected tracks as an album using AR checksums for comparing the results with the AR database?

That would be handy, since foobar2000 would do all the conversion.

Anyone who wants to write such a plugin? Would be awesome!

EDIT: Thanks for moving the thread and giving it a better title.

Some things to consider...

• There shall be no any limitation regarding the source of the tracks used. So lossy files get decoded to PCM, just like losslessly encoded files. It doesn't hurt if the plugin is held dumb enough to not be bothered whether the source was lossy or lossless. In fact this might even be useful to verify that a false entry based on a non-CD-source has made it into the AR database, in case someone has a hunch that a specific "release" has made it into the database.
  
  Of course, checks on the decoded output must apply, namely that it is 16bit, 44.1kHz PCM. And maybe it's also wise to not allow internet radio streams as input for this plugin, in case it's possible to check this. Or else the user who accidentally chose such a playlist entry might wait forever for the plugin to finish.
  
  
• Don't object: "but why any tracks? you mean you want to select some lossy files and see if they make up an album that is present in the AR database?" -- No, I don't want to do that, maybe once or twice just for the fun of it. But although it doesn't make sense to check random tracks as one album, there's also no reason why this shall not be possible.
  
  To make myself clearer: I think the grouping of tracks for an AR check should be implemented more or less exactly like the grouping for replaygain was done... i.e. "treat selected tracks as one album", "treat selected tracks as album(s) (using tags)".
  
  
• There should be a log output, that can be copied and pasted or even automatically written to a file using tagz script for creating that file's name. Not just a window that says "Album was verified as being accurately ripped."/"Album couldn't be verified as being accurately ripped."
  
  The log output should resemble the output of the AR.dll for the time being... and maybe later, even better it could be written using user-defineable templates.

Any more ideas? Objections?

This post has been edited by Fandango: Aug 1 2007, 04:04

[Jose Hidalgo]

+1 : Fandango, I can assure that I have ripped ALL of my CDs (and I mean more than 1.000 legally-bought CDs) myself, with EAC and Accuraterip (who calculated my drive's offset automatically based on 3 different CDs).

However, I agree with odyssey : I have ripped some of my CDs at a friend's appartment who as a different drive with a different offset. Besides, in the near future, I may also want to change my drive for another model with a different offset.

And of course once you mix up all those ripped CDs in the same hard drive, you don't necessarily remember what CDs have been ripped with what drive. Of course I have most of the EAC logs, but again, having a look manually at more than 1.000 logs doesn't look like a good solution to me...

As for the AR logs, I have very few of them. Why ? Because with EAC 0.95b4 a year ago, it was a bit of a pain to manually copy/paste them in individual files. So I did it only when they indicated no confidence (CD not in database, or incorrect results).

Voilà.