could a plugin be made/used to check "other sources" besides YADB?
I like your idea a lot !! I hope it is understood that I am a LONG time user of MC and of course long before there was MC wtih JRiver.
No criticizing MC here, just discussing different thoughts which I think is in sync with MCs commitment to "continuous improvement".
I use a simple, but highly functional label program called "AudioLabel". I particularly use them because I do a lot of direct printing to writable CDs and DVDs and they have the software that supports my printers.
http://www.audiolabel.com/ They have an option in their label print that I find is a excellent model for bringing in CD data.
There is a button they have called "Disk". When selected, a Windows comes down that will show what the user selects:
- FREEDB
- CD-TEXT
- CDPlayer.INI
- MP3 Files
One can select all, or one.
Then all of the hists come down and the window is big enough to quickly scan the the contents of each "hit". When selected, it
puts the found replies on a potential label in a way that the user has laid out (or the default).
It might be interesting for someone to download the demo of this small program AudioLabel to see what I mean.
This is from Audiolabels sales pitch about this feature. The "MP3" feature of this is new and I have never used it.
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Automatically Finds Album InformationThere's no need for typing when AudioLabel can recognize your CD and download the album information from the Freedb internet database. This database is enormous, and most likely contains every album in your CD collection. For mixed CDs, the album information can be found by searching the CDPlayer.ini file, or by reading CD-TEXT directly from your CD. And for MP3 enthusiasts, our cd label maker can even read and label your MP3 CD using the ID3 tag and filename"There is no perfect way of course. Sometimes it is good to look at some ideas that other software developers have and approaches can be influenced by the creativity of our peers.
Jon