GRACENOTE FOR WINAMP PLUS

Its pretty much the ultimate iTunes plugin you could say, plus it shows you when the artist youre listening to is having a concert near your location so that could be a boon to wash away the pains of knowing youll need iTunes to use it.

GRACENOTE FOR WINAMP WINDOWS

Supposedly it can work with Windows Media Player but personally thats never worked for me (but then again the last time i tried it with WMP was in 2011) But anyways, this one also gets you album art from amazon. Theyve recently had their own internal limbo like Winamp has and almost shutdown, now theyre back, and their service still works, however their client isnt how i remember it being, iirc it used to have the ability to give you multiple choices in the gracenote results, or maybe not.

That was in 2011, since then ive heard theyve bought something similar to Gracenote's ability to detect a song's acoustic fingerprint to identify it, i guess that gives it an edge over FreeDB which arguably isnt as sparse as MusicBrainz since FreeDB has been around as long as CDDB has iirc.įor those who still want to use Gracenote's service, theres five options. Ive gone through pretty much every tagging app with online DB functionality there is and Picard has to be by far one of the worst, if not THE worst in usability. Maybe the same way the Autotagger currently is but with improvements? (like being able to have multiple choices for one)Īnd hopefully not limited to being capable of searching just by the album name, since the album field is usually the tag field thats never everrrr filled in mp3's. I really hope however way Winamp decides to implement MusicBrainz is better than the pain in the ass way MusicBrainz's own client Picard does. and it's not like people need to rely on the information which is pulled down from whatever service(s) end up being used since most aspects can be manually overridden (just like has been able to be done for years).Īll great things must come to an end i suppose, and CDDB was THE greatest of great things to me :'(Īs my previous posts show, the Autotag feature was the main and for a time the only reason i used Winamp, it was the reason i eventually got hooked to Winamp and the reason why my annoyingly large media library is no longer filled with 'unknown track' or 'track 01' or with horribly incomplete metadata or non at all.

GRACENOTE FOR WINAMP SOFTWARE

last.fm coverart lookup), even just getting the basic tag handling support into the player for handling will be a bonus to start with as that opens up a number of possibilities as well as interoperability improvements with other software / services which we weren't able to do previously.Īnd i know that whatever we do, there are going to be people who despise it, but as the Gracenote termination applies to _all_ Winamp clients (even those on 2.x installs), sometimes a change and a fresh start on what is used will be better in the long run, though only time will tell. and with so many things using musicbrainz ids now (and having done so for ages e.g. That probably is true, especially in the early days (along with other services that helped fill up that system - which is why it generally does so well for old material). Musicbrainz seem to have made a good start. Arguably it was the users who built up the tagging/fingerprint Gracenote database and we will just need to build up another one.

Gracenote for winamp