Freedb

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It is not a Messer plugin port. So function available are different.
The selected songs must be into the commercial order of the album to make freedb work.
With discogs you can tag albums even with missing files or incorrect order as long as you know the name of the artist and the album.

You have some old files encoded with no tags and now that you have thousand of tags to enter manually, you are desparated? This page should help you a bit to have all the work achieved in only several minutes.

Configure

You must enter an adress, but the default one is perfect. It's only because the freedb server needs an adress.

Use the default server. If you experiment some problems or if you are chauvinistic, choose a specific server to avoid problems.

Use

Select the whole album.
The selected songs must be into the commercial order of the album or it won't work.
You must have all the songs of the album.
Use the contextual menu. Then a status bar will appear, and finally that window:
If no matching album has been found, or this window:
You will be able to choose which tags you will get if several tags are available for the same album. You can correct them or delete some directly.
Various artists will be checked for compilations or you can check it by yourself.
Use Wipe out existing tags to delete all other tags. It could delete your playcount, composer performer tags etc.. So use it with caution.

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September 26 2007 00:26:43.