Cuyler
Bright colored pinwheels go 'round in my head.
Hi everyone.
I hope you are all well. I will disclose first that I am a member of the MusicBrainz community but do not have any fiduciary/financial interest in that company; I'm a contributor in the same way I contribute to Wikipedia and A&M Corner.
I am currently going through the Carpenters' releases on MusicBrainz, and oy vey it is a mess. I have various CDs that are AM+ Series linked to the 2009 Japanese SHM releases, Remastered Classics CDs linked to heaven knows...
If you are interested in an open-source discographical resource (think Discogs and Gracenote in one, but open service), I highly encourage you to check it out. The most helpful feature, in my opinion, is MusicBrainz Picard. It is a metadata tagger (which is how I found MusicBrainz in the first place). Long story short, if your iTunes Library is disorganized, or you have a bunch of CD rips with no artist, album, or year, MusicBrainz Picard (available for Windows and Mac) can tag all of your music with granular detail (i.e. composer, release date, catalog number, barcode, etc.).
On MusicBrainz Picard, I use the "Lookup CD" feature to associate the CD TOC (Disc ID) with the proper release. This means that, in theory, if I stick a Remastered Classics CD, the result that pops up should be the Remastered Classics version (with the year being ca. 1998). However, there remains a lot of work to be done... if anyone is interested in adding granular detail, please feel free to check it out and help me! I don't have all versions of Carpenters CDs, so I definitely can't do it by myself!
MusicBrainz works with CD rippers like XLD (for Mac) and VLC (for Mac and Windows). It's much better than FreeDB, in my experience. MusicBrainz data tend to be highly standardized (each artist has a unique identifier, each release has a unique identifier, even each recording is supposed to have a unique identifier, etc.), and album/track names are capitalized with title case. (FreeDB sometimes gives me wacky title outputs.)
Best,
Cuyler
I hope you are all well. I will disclose first that I am a member of the MusicBrainz community but do not have any fiduciary/financial interest in that company; I'm a contributor in the same way I contribute to Wikipedia and A&M Corner.
I am currently going through the Carpenters' releases on MusicBrainz, and oy vey it is a mess. I have various CDs that are AM+ Series linked to the 2009 Japanese SHM releases, Remastered Classics CDs linked to heaven knows...
If you are interested in an open-source discographical resource (think Discogs and Gracenote in one, but open service), I highly encourage you to check it out. The most helpful feature, in my opinion, is MusicBrainz Picard. It is a metadata tagger (which is how I found MusicBrainz in the first place). Long story short, if your iTunes Library is disorganized, or you have a bunch of CD rips with no artist, album, or year, MusicBrainz Picard (available for Windows and Mac) can tag all of your music with granular detail (i.e. composer, release date, catalog number, barcode, etc.).
On MusicBrainz Picard, I use the "Lookup CD" feature to associate the CD TOC (Disc ID) with the proper release. This means that, in theory, if I stick a Remastered Classics CD, the result that pops up should be the Remastered Classics version (with the year being ca. 1998). However, there remains a lot of work to be done... if anyone is interested in adding granular detail, please feel free to check it out and help me! I don't have all versions of Carpenters CDs, so I definitely can't do it by myself!
MusicBrainz works with CD rippers like XLD (for Mac) and VLC (for Mac and Windows). It's much better than FreeDB, in my experience. MusicBrainz data tend to be highly standardized (each artist has a unique identifier, each release has a unique identifier, even each recording is supposed to have a unique identifier, etc.), and album/track names are capitalized with title case. (FreeDB sometimes gives me wacky title outputs.)
Best,
Cuyler