Has anyone noticed wrong results from freedb2.org? I get totally different and wrong results compared to freedb.org.

The only thing that's right is the number of tracks...

EDIT: Oh, well. Never mind. It was only that two albums in a row got me wrong results from freedb2 but correct ones from freedb... other albums got me quite similar results (and correct albums). I think it's only that their databases are diverging more and more. Pfft.

I haven't had that problem as of yet. The problem I'm having is it isn't available allot of the time and I have to keep switching back and forth between freedb.org and freedb2.org, and it's getting old.

Concerning freedb. read this

http://www.freedb.org/

I can imagine their struggles have an effect on the database.
Who knows what really goes on behind the scenes.
I still hope we end up with an equally good freedb. as the one we got used to.

This was going to happen sooner or later. The two databases will eventually give different results. Some (new) albums may only be found in old freedb and others only in freedb2, depending on which one was preferred by the contributor of that album.

I think the split between the people behind freedb.org marked the beginning of the end of freedb (and freedb2). Other metadatabases like Musicbrainz or even AMG and Amazon will replace it sooner or later. Mp3Tag's web sources already demonstrates that almost anything can be used as a source for metadata.

Can I ask what people are using (or suggest other people should be using) if ripping CDs at the moment?

The UK freedb mirror still works, but appears to be missing some CDs which IIRC were present in the main freedb database.

If the database is going to split, then there's a use for a meta-freedb service/tool which checks all the individual ones.

Of course the best option is to merge everything back again, but we don't live in an ideal world.

Cheers,
David.

In fact it is already possible to use most freedb enabled applications with MusicBrainz. See the details at:

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/CddbGateway

any questions, just ask!

Steve

I can only state what I'm being forced to do which is use both freedb.org and freedb2.org because both of them having findings and failings meaning when one can't find an album I have to switch to the other, and it usually finds the album info.

With that said during all this switching back and forth I did discover a problem in CDex 1.70 Beta 2 that maybe someone else can verify or disclaim, the problem is when trying to use freedb.org or freedb2.org it causes CDex to immediately crash, this only started happening recently so I'm wondering if it's related to either freedb services.

The CDex MusicBrainz add-in has never found one CD of mine and some of my stuff is at least 20-25 years old.

I wonder why there isn't a service like what Microsoft Windows Media Player uses which not only displays album art, but also allows for corrections/editing to be made via the media player to the website/host versus having 2 or more versions of CD info to choose from which may all be incorrect.