Dear King,
You know, I was pretty much aware that I was wasting my time with the post, because their have been many similar and I said "hated" a emotional word, but it seems like the objection to Freedb is rather passionate. Sorry if I was a bit too strong.
My hope is that MC, which I love, could possibly be a little more flexible on this issue.
I do not understand the need for control of Freedb. Usually it is a matter of someones style of entering the songs might be different than another listing,. but I can't remember when I couldn't find an accurate listing. What is great about MC is that anything that comes down can be easily edited so that any of the data can be easily edited.
So many applications use it and it seems to have about everything. That saves me a lot of time. Why would MC want "control" over Freedb, to be honest, I have found it to be more accurate than YADB. Then again for every CD that Freedb has and YADB doesn't, is the biggest type of inaccuracy, it is saying that it doesn't exist.
Would an option to be a choice, I have seen that on so many applications. I listed some applications that I have on my original post. It doesn't seem to be a problem for them. I could get a more complete list and I would bet that I would find that most highly distributed open source/freeware application (like Cdex) as well as popular applications like Nero all using it or giving the user a choice of CCDB or another method.
Even looking in the CD-Text itself and CDplayer.ini ?
I usually print my own labels either to print directly on my media (usually) or to some Neato Matte labels. I don't really want to type up a song list and times of songs.
Jon
I think you may have wasted 5-10 Min's of your life typing above.
It is not that they hate FreeDB, It is More Like They Wanted More Control Over The Application.