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Hi
I want to connect to freedb or freedb2 to retreive song info, I was wondering if anyone knows of a free library to do this, I have seen a c# example on the code project, but this uses cdid and I want to get results for tracks, by searching by their artist, album ect.
thanks in advance
Do they provide a Web Service you can consume?
im not sure, I will look into that now.
No... As far as I can find there is only one way of retreiving info from freedb2 (without paying for a thrid party DLL, as i cant find any free ones), and that is to send the request using the freedb protocol, I am only interested in freeDB2 because as far as i could find it is the only one where you can query for results by artist/genre/album etc rather than a unique disk ID...
I have had a breif look at the example on the code project
located here
NOTE: FreeDB2 implements the freedb protocol with some modifications, (namely for the purposes of what I am trying to acheive)
Also there is a little bit of info at this site
tracktype.org
which is the freedb2 site, you can also search this site for album/track info...
Althaugh FreeDB2 implements the freedb protocol , I am not sure of what to do to query for artist/album etc. There is a serious lack of info on this. please help...
thanks in advance