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  1. May 3rd, 2007, 12:04 AM #1
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    FreeDB and FreeDB2

    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.

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    Re: FreeDB and FreeDB2

    im not sure, I will look into that now.
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    Re: FreeDB and FreeDB2

    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...

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