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Best practices to display multiple copies of same album

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cinjin:
Arindelle....doesn't JRiver use FreeDB to look up cd rips and uses a discID and an "acoustic fingerprint" as a unique identifier to match and grab tags for that cd? FreeDB you know that user contributed database that both JRiver and Musicbrainz use to identify CD's. UPC numbers or barcodes are listed on Discogs (user contributed) and musicbrainz but rarely have I ever seen a barcode info on an allusic album page. I've seen catalog numbers which are also on musicbrainz and discogs. Allmusic also has user contributed editing for errors found there also. As for vinyl or downloads (hdtracks etc) i have found allmusic to be sorely lacking in any up to date info. Plus they have locked out all software from scaping any info from their (extremely slow)site. I used to use amg.pl created by mrC from here and it was wonderful for scraping info from allmusic but if you don't have any of the basic info of your albums (catalog#, Country or Label) how are you matching it to anything on any site?

JimH:
We use our own database, YADB, for lookup.  We believe the quality is better.  If we don't find a match, we also check FreeDB.

The acoustic fingerprint method is only used for track lookup.

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