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Man, i haven't posted in a long time. Anyway...is there a way we could get a freedb replacement to work? Like gnudb.gnudb.org or whatever Windows is using? I know Windows Media Player on a Windows 10 OC still downloads songs/titles. I really wish i could get this going again because i got stuff to enter.
Thanks for any help on this issue.
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The method I described above (#2) does work.Originally Posted by slaKfish
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Very disappointed that OCD has virtually stopped allowing any new albums to be catalogued.At least Andrei could have given us an alternative or some advice-especially those who aren't brilliant at this technolgy. Have read about Collectorz,etc. but i really don't know where to begin.
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How is it not working for you? I added a couple of CD releases using Discogs yesterday and some downloads last week. I tend to use Discogs no matter whether I am adding a new cd or a new download because the Discogs entry often has lots of data already filled in. Once I have the properties to my liking I then link to the actual digital files using Misc - Album Path - Add. Because Discogs provides, in my experience, a lot more useful data than freedb ever did, I am not missing freedb at all. I have tried out several other cataloguers and found none as easy to use as OCD, none to provide as much information, and none to be as adaptable.
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Use Add from Discogs under album.
1) Search in the Add albums from discogs box using artist or keyword (use album title here)
2) Select the entry that matches your cd release code (discogs usually has several entries for any album)
3) Might also check for which discogs entry has the best credits, musician and recording data (discogs is much better on this than freedb)
4) Change the format to CD if it isn't that already
5) Under the Misc tab add the album path
I was using this even when freedb was still available as discogs provides more - and more accurate - information than freedb
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Thanks guys. I actually finally stumbled on adding via Discogs. At first i didn't like it, but once i got a system down it wasn't much slower. I usually enter the label # from the spine. The only issues so far is 2CD's take some extra steps to break in to two discs. (i have to add the album twice and edit the tracks.) The other issue is unlike before where i put in the CD for freedb there seems to be no record of the actual physical CD. So i can enter it in and get duplicates if it has been entered previously. So now i've added the step of checking my catalog first to see if it's already been entered. Hopefully that made sense to you.
Have a nice day wherever you are!
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An alternate to entering it twice from Discogs (which is what I interpret you doing), you can duplicate the album - it's under Tools. You then have to do all the things you do when adding it twice plus making sure the titles of the two albums are the same (OCD adds a (1) to the duplicate). One of the longstanding, never fulfilled, requests was to have a function that would break an entry into separate discs.
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OH, thanks!
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