freedb.org - How to query by artist/album without disc id

Question

I am working on a C# program that will (hopefully) standardize the genres in my mp3 files. To do it I am going to try and use last.fm, discogs, freedb, and any other online music database I can find to return genres for each album. I plan on taking the results between these databases to automatically calculate a genre/genre list for my mp3s.

It appears that freedb was intended to return data based on a disc id from a ripped CD. What I would like to do is query freedb in a similar way last.fm lets you query, by artist/album and then return results from matching entries.

My question is what is the best way to do this? It doesn't look like freedb allows REST calls. Would I need to do some web scraping to achieve this? Are there any open source applications scraping freedb data that I can look at?

Thanks! Jason

Answer 1

The freedb database is free to download and use however you would like. You could always download it, import it into a local db, and then query it however you'd like.

The database

Parser for the freedb database

Answer 2

Lastfm和其他一些音乐服务具有打开的数据表，我会尝试使用yql查询它们