Hello,
I have my collection pretty well tagged, so I tried to go one step further: I tried to know the albums I miss from my favourites artists.
To do so, I need a complete music database, with tons of artists and its albums names, with as much information as possible (at least: year and genre). So I decided to download FREEDB database and import it to a SQL Server database.
I did it. And the result was disappointing. FREEDB database is useless for my proposes. It has hundreds of duplicates, with missing tags and many erroneous tags albums. I am not talking about weird, unknown or non-comercial albums. I am talking about Michael Jackson, U2, Madonna, Bryan Adams or Beatles albums. It does not matter, anything that can be bad, it is done badly: Any album can be jazz, rock, misc, blues, classic, reagge and newage, and everything at the same time. And it can be released at 5 or 6 different years. It is a mess.
I know FREEDB database is build with anonymous collaborations, and I know it is the best way to have a huge database. But I thought some kind of cleaning was made. I thought album information that will be downloaded hundreds, thousands, or millions of times would be checked to ensure a minimum of quality.
For instance, “Bad” from Michael Jackson appears about 40 or 50 times, some misspell the artists, some misspell the album, some both, each “Bad” album has different songs, or belong to a different genre, and so on. Bad, very bad.
How many albums have released Michael? I can’t say looking at FREEDB database.
Well, I realize there is not any quality control. Bad luck.
Do you know an open database I can access to get the information I am looking for (every album of every major artist)?