Re: Website doesn't find album that is in the databse

Hello,

Monday, November 25, 2002, 9:26:51 PM, Michael Kaiser wrote:

> Quoting Colin Marquardt <[email protected]>:

>> I just encountered a pretty strange thing:
>>
>> $ mp3cddb *.mp3
>> searching for discid: 630a3309, total tracks: 9, total time: 2611 ...
>> trying freedb.freedb.org:8880...
>> match: rock    620a3609        Soilwork / The Chainheart Machine
>> saving information to cddbinfo.txt...
>> $
>>
>> Searching with the web interface on freedb.org, I get nothing for
>> that CD however. Isn't that... particular?

It is known, that the web-search interface is buggy. But given the
choice to have no web-based search or this one, we opted to use this
one till omeone comes up with a better solution.

> As far as I know isn't the web interface capable of accessing the "true"
> database. I don't now how many hours/days/month the web interface is
> behind the real database, but I guess it must be "some" ;)

It's updated once a day.

Joerg