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Can anyone explain to me what I need to do to submit a CD to the CDDB?
I've done a little research and found a few applications that are
supposed to allow you to submit, however when I download and install the
applications it is not quite clear. The documentation on the
applications I have downloaded is terrible.

Anyone have a good, straight forward application that they can recommend?

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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:45:39 +0000, EricK wrote
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Can anyone explain to me what I need to do to submit a CD to the CDDB?
I've done a little research and found a few applications that are
supposed to allow you to submit, however when I download and install the
applications it is not quite clear. The documentation on the
applications I have downloaded is terrible.

Anyone have a good, straight forward application that they can recommend?


You can do this in iTunes. I've never tried it, but the window that comes up
when you access the menu item looks very straightforward.

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John Adair wrote:

You can do this in iTunes. I've never tried it, but the window that comes up
when you access the menu item looks very straightforward.


Interesting, I don't know much about iTunes. I'm on Windows, but I
assume they have a Windows version of iTunes.

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EricK wrote:
Can anyone explain to me what I need to do to submit a CD to the CDDB?
I've done a little research and found a few applications that are
supposed to allow you to submit, however when I download and install the
applications it is not quite clear. The documentation on the
applications I have downloaded is terrible.

Anyone have a good, straight forward application that they can recommend?

Thanks,



I think most of the programs mentioned in the recent thread
about CD ripping will do the job. More detailed info is in
the FAQ at freedb.org.
http://www.freedb.org/modules.php?na...artid=26 #2-1
I went with "Easy CD-DA Extractor" and it seem like all you have to
do is fill out your track info then hit submit.

I think they are having issues with the database currently so accessing
the database may be spotty.


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EricK wrote:
Can anyone explain to me what I need to do to submit a CD to the CDDB?


The whole CDDB thing sounds a bit like a privacy invasion thing to me
(if I see any reference to it in any program that I have, I turn it
off) so I've never dealt with it. But while I don't know how it works,
CDEX (CD Extractor) has a "Submit to Remote CDDB" (also a local CDDB if
you maintain one) on a menu.

It's a handy program, and free. Check it out if you're on Windoze.



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Mike Rivers wrote:
The whole CDDB thing sounds a bit like a privacy invasion thing to me


That's why you can turn it off, if you don't trust it. Realistically,
however, there's no evidence that they're tracking submissions on more
than a rough-statistical level. I'm not particularly embarassed by
anything I listen to, so I decline to worry about it. Your milage may vary.
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Joe Kesselman wrote:

The whole CDDB thing sounds a bit like a privacy invasion thing to me


That's why you can turn it off, if you don't trust it. Realistically,
however, there's no evidence that they're tracking submissions on more
than a rough-statistical level. I'm not particularly embarassed by
anything I listen to, so I decline to worry about it. Your milage may vary.


I'm not embarassed by what I listen to, either, nor am I in the habit
of ripping CDs. But I suspect that most people who use CDDB don't use
it to submit their works to the data base, but use it in the other
direction - you rip a CD, then rather than typing in the titles, you
submit it to the great data base in the ether and let it do the work.
Isn't that what it's all about? My concern is that one of these days
the lobbyists are going to be strong enough to get the law changed and
make copying music from one medium to another illegal. And to support
that, they'll use the number of times that the data base is queried to
identify music that has been copied to a computer.

I'm not paranoid, I just don't like where this might go.

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Mike Rivers wrote:
But I suspect that most people who use CDDB don't use
it to submit their works to the data base, but use it in the other
direction - you rip a CD, then rather than typing in the titles, you
submit it to the great data base in the ether and let it do the work.


Works in both directions. If it doesn't know about the CD, then after
you type in the data it becomes available to others.

that, they'll use the number of times that the data base is queried to
identify music that has been copied to a computer.


Not evidence by any means. There *ARE* folks who use CDDB just to index
their physical recordings; I believe that's actually where it started.
You'd need other information to prove what the ratios are, and if you've
got that source of data you don't need this one.
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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Joe Kesselman wrote:

The whole CDDB thing sounds a bit like a privacy invasion thing to me


That's why you can turn it off, if you don't trust it. Realistically,
however, there's no evidence that they're tracking submissions on more
than a rough-statistical level. I'm not particularly embarassed by
anything I listen to, so I decline to worry about it. Your milage may
vary.


I'm not embarassed by what I listen to, either, nor am I in the habit
of ripping CDs. But I suspect that most people who use CDDB don't use
it to submit their works to the data base, but use it in the other
direction - you rip a CD, then rather than typing in the titles, you
submit it to the great data base in the ether and let it do the work.
Isn't that what it's all about? My concern is that one of these days
the lobbyists are going to be strong enough to get the law changed and
make copying music from one medium to another illegal. And to support
that, they'll use the number of times that the data base is queried to
identify music that has been copied to a computer.

I'm not paranoid, I just don't like where this might go.



Hi Mike,

I've usually like the CDDB just because I can pop a CD into my computer to
listen to it, and Windows Media Player with display the artist name, album
title, song titles and even artwork on the screen. It's very nice . .
unless it can't find the album or the connection/server is slow and your
system seems to hang for a minute while it tries. I go through phases of
having it enabled and disabled.

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