Fdbgrabber From Websiteam To Grab Data Related To Music Cds

WebSiteam releases an update of its application that provides for getting album and artist information from freedb.org database. With FDBGrabber you can sort the collected information by artist, year, genre etc. and have it on your hard drive for further reference.

If you’re searching for a full discography of a ensemble or a performer that you have encountered accidentally or want to be sure whether the discography of albums by your favorite performer is complete FDBGrabber can be of use to you. This program retrieves information from freebd and introduces it to your desktop. Freebd is a big web database to browse for CD information. All the information provided by freebd service is subject to general public license, which assumes it’s costs nothing.

FDBGrabber does the search by performer or by album and displays the data in a sortable list of expandable items representing bands/singers and names of albums correspondingly. The application makes use of ‘search within results’ function allowing to find a certain name or an album/song title by typing and submitting it in the corresponding field. The collected CD data can be kept with a native extension or saved as an RTF file, which is useful indeed.

Now for the downside. The information in freedb database is submitted by lots of regular users so incorrect entries are unavoidable. Freedb personnel make use of automated instruments to work with them, however, as they claim it in their own words, they can’t guarantee that all submitted information is correct. This leads to duplicate entries, titles confusion, and even typos in the musician’s names. While it’s obvious that it’s freedb.org not the software developer who should cope with the problem, it can’t spare FDBGrabber users the confusion of choosing among ‘RHCP’ and ‘Red Hot Chili Peppers’ or ‘Nirvana’ and ‘Nirvanna’.

Still, FDBGrabber is a nice tool for collecting quick information related to musical CDs. Exporting function provides for sharing of the results with others and making discography for reference. The program is a lightweight one, requires no installation, and free to use.

There’s also a version for portable devices called FDBMobile which has the same practicability and features except for storing as RTF.

By: Websiteam Software

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WebSiteam software Gmbh, based in the Russian Federation, has been granting software solutions since 2006. WebSiteam specializes in building cyberspace and multimedia applications for GPU. The list of its software products includes but not limited to SmarFTPPlayer, Tag2File, FreeDBGrabber, and MPTree Lite. You can find more information at www.websiteam.com