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Topic: how does the freedb taging work (Read 2897 times) previous topic - next topic
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how does the freedb taging work

well it works! but how? i dont understand how it finds the right album artist song track number? how does it know which album it is?

I only player a little bit around and there are some limitations arent there?

what cant it do?

how does the freedb taging work

Reply #1 –
I was wondering about the same thing. I assume it works based on the length of individual tracks. Could it be made so that it could output a CUE sheet based on freedb query? Does the freedb information store gaps between tracks?
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how does the freedb taging work

Reply #2 –
freedb stores only tracks' offsets (including lead-out offset), and that's the basic information which allows to identify albums. Of course combination of offsets is (almost) unique for albums with ~10 tracks, but if you try it on albums with 1-2 tracks (like singles) you'll see that it's not the best possible key.

There's no gap info in freedb entries, but of course some kind of cue sheet could be generated from it (there's online tool that does the job: http://www.cuesheet.info/).

how does the freedb taging work

Reply #3 –
So does a freedb query give sufficient information to completely determine track layout and therefore the CUE sheet? If so that'll be a handy feature to have.
The object of mankind lies in its highest individuals.
One must have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

how does the freedb taging work

Reply #4 –
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So does a freedb query give sufficient information to completely determine track layout and therefore the CUE sheet?

Almost. You cannot figure out INDEXes, so something like:
Code: [Select]
    TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "foo"
    PERFORMER "bar"
    INDEX 00 03:48:64
    INDEX 01 03:54:33

would become:
Code: [Select]
    TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "foo"
    PERFORMER "bar"
    INDEX 00 03:48:64