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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Rooster6975 on February 15, 2003, 07:22:11 am

Title: Does YADB actually work for anyone?
Post by: Rooster6975 on February 15, 2003, 07:22:11 am

Hi,

I seem to have a problem with my existing tags.  YADB won't recognize any MP3 I try to look up.  After manually filling in all the info, including album, artist, and song, I finally got it to recognize something, but only 4 songs from the same album.  The other 14 songs from that same album (Very Best of Meat Loaf) were all unrecognized.

For the first time, YADB came back and said 4 of 18 updated.  The rest were unfound.  I went through about 12 albums of MP3s before YADB got it's first hit.  Every one of these albums were successfully found and tagged with MMJB.  And of the 4 it tagged, none were correct.  All were from the original album rather than the Very Best of.  This is despite the fact that when I look at the format tag, it says the album is The Very Best of Meat Loaf.

Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a setting I have to change to make YADB find the MP3s?

Thanks,
Rooster.

Title: Re: Does YADB actually work for anyone?
Post by: KingSparta on February 15, 2003, 08:02:24 am

if your using the YADB By file lookup and it sounds like you are, that data base is not the same as the YADB CD Lookup database and is very small.

you should rip all your CD's and when done taging all your files submit them to YADB. this is looking the files by looking at the song finger print and not the file tags.

Title: Re: Does YADB actually work for anyone?
Post by: kwake on February 15, 2003, 08:39:44 am

I have the same problem as Rooster - and notice that the online lookup db that Music Match Jukebox connects to doesn't have the same trouble finding the info for MP3 files.

Is there a chance that Media Center could include an option to choose which online song database to use, rather than only use YADB (which as you say, is small?)

Kwake

Title: Re: Does YADB actually work for anyone?
Post by: JimH on February 15, 2003, 08:44:55 am

There are no other options, but you may not have understood what KingSparta said.

Take a look at the stats page on www.yadb.com.  You will find about 600,000 CD's in the CD database.  This would have around 6,000,000 tracks in it.

There is also a track database that is much newer and much smaller.

Title: Re: Does YADB actually work for anyone?
Post by: zevele10 on February 15, 2003, 01:55:59 pm

if you use MM supertag ,it means you have the registered version.
Tags and sleeves you get from it are 100% compatible with MJ8 or MC9.
So just use it .
You may upload the song infos to YADB, as i do.
If anyone do the same ,i no time YADB would have a large tracks infos.
As you know it is VERY helpfull when using Hillary software.....

Title: Re: Does YADB actually work for anyone?
Post by: Rooster6975 on February 15, 2003, 03:56:03 pm

Yes, I have the registered version of MMJB.  The super-tagging option is terrific, it is what I use to tag all of my MP3s.

I can upload my tags to YADB, but will there ever be an option to select the online database as suggested by Kwake?  Or is there some licensing issues?

Title: Re: Does YADB actually work for anyone?
Post by: KingSparta on February 15, 2003, 04:48:10 pm

>> Is there a chance that Media Center could include an
>> option to choose which online song database to use
it does not work that way