Talk:CDDB

message: I'd be interested to know when the idea of CDDB and its first implementation were released. The article should probably include this info. Graham 02:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: first released when?

message: I've removed this:
The AMG metadata database is generally recognized to be more comprehensive and of higher quality, because of quality controls that CDDB lacks.
It sounds more like a commrecial endorsement more than anything else.  It certainly doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article about CDDB.  Please discuss any reversions here first!
-Wpegden 20:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CDDB Quality Issues

message: Apple's iTunes uses CDDB. I often find errors and correct them and then click on "Submit CD Track Names", which I assume sends my updated info back to the CDDB organization. Does anyone have any info on what happens to my submission? Does someone review it, or is it automatically made available? And in the case of multiple submissions, how do they decide what to put out. Is there any editorial review policy?
In the Classical Genre, which I do a lot of work with, there seems to be a great deal of variety of ways to express the same piece and no standardization. I have my own standard, so I change them and then resubmit the results. In my experiece a large number of albums in this genre have been apparently entered by non-classical musicians who don't understand the importance of various things. Is there anywhere even a minimal written style guidline for this, let alone any editorial policies?
:I don't know the true answer, but I suspect that CDDB works like wikipedia - the latest submission goes into the database and that's what is current. There can't be any review/quality control because there are so many errors that get through - not just spelling and capitalisation, but whole fields swapped (there must be at least one popular app out there that incorrectly switches the artist and title fields because these are frequently found in the wrong places). With iTunes, I usually correct any info before I do an import, but rarely bother to submit it back. iTunes will use the locally corrected copy from then on so for me at least it stays accurate. Perhaps I should be more community minded. Graham 00:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  User update policy? 

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message: There is no pause before the first track of the CD, so the XX becomes "00".
You can check that by creating a cue sheet from any CD. I actually calculated a checksum with Excel and compared it to that provided on an EAC Cue sheet => It must be 0 for the first track.
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thread_title: Example Calculation

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message: This article is a stub and rather confusing to read. It needs major improvements, esp. regarding the history of the (non-)accessibility of the CDDB database and its forks/clones, the current state and the future of the project. PS: It's also a bad joke to describe the CD format, which was a fully digital, computerized format right from the start, as the successor to the grammophone ... totally inaccurate!-- Alexey Topol (talk) 08:27, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements needed