Gracenote queries

Is there a way to query, or a utility that will take a bunch of flac files and query gracenote? Some of my discs are not in freedb, so grip can't find track names.

Probably not. Gracenote has banned all unlicensed clients from accessing their data.

However, since all Gracenote products must be licensed, it's easy enough to find all Gracenote clients.

yea.. most are just ripers/enocders.. I was hoping to get a reccomendation for tag maintence so I wouldn't have to try every single app on the page

I use jack, probably the only ripper that supports both freedb and cddb/gracenote. Jack allows you to create your own freedb definition, which not only specifies the url and such, but also the program name it should report.

Reporting "xmcd" as the client program name does the trick. xmcd was the first cddb client ever, in fact its author created cddb.

Pim

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jack, probably the only ripper that supports both freedb and cddb/gracenote

Interesting. That's explicitly disallowed by the Gracenote license.