get data from freedb.org with kid3

Beginner

Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 1:04pm

hi!
i'm trying do get data from freedb.org for kid3. the program seems to get a connection and some data but i can't see any results.

i used the following settings:
server: freedb.freedb.org:80
CGI-path: /~cddb/cddb.cgi

kid3 works fine with musicbrainz but there i can only get data for seperate songs and not for a whole album.

i've no problems with freedb.org using KAudio-Creator.

does anybody know what's wrong?

thanks.

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ufleisch

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Monday, January 22nd 2007, 9:41pm

RE: get data from freedb.org with kid3

Get the latest version of Kid3 (0.8.1). With old versions, freedb.org import will not work because freedb.org was closed last summer and then reopened by Magix. Kid3 used the freedb.org web interface to query artists and albums, this interface is no longer there (now there is a new incompatible beta web interface). Kid3 0.8.1 uses the 'cddb query' of freedb2.org, I hope this will work for some time. I usually use freedb2.org, but other servers should work too (the artist - album query is always sent to freedb2.org, the selected server is used to get the tracks of the selected album).

If freedb should go down again, there are two new alternatives available in Kid3: Discogs.com and the MusicBrainz release database.

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zippo

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Tuesday, January 23rd 2007, 6:56pm

thanks for your answer!
unfortunately I'm using Debian etch and there hasn't been an official release of version 0.8.1 yet. I found only a version for sarge. or is there any other way I could run the latest Kid3 version on etch? I'm totally new to linux

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ufleisch

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Sunday, February 4th 2007, 9:40pm

RE: get data from freedb.org with kid3

Try the Debian experimental package:
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/kde/kid3

If it does not work, you can build you own package.
Install debhelper, libqt3-mt-dev, kdelibs4-dev, libid3-3.8.3-dev, libtunepimp3-dev, libvorbis-dev, libflac++-dev, libtag1-dev.
Download and extract the source package, the go into the debian directory and type:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -nc
Then install the generated deb-package.

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ipspeł

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Monday, February 5th 2007, 4:02pm

Did you try to dpkg -i the sarge package you found? It may just work...

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