"Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote:

>In news:igokl1dof4dcea03qn2ju43lnsupdq7ok6@4ax.com,
>Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>> I've just come across Foobar http://www.foobar2000.org/download.html
>>
>> Anyone here familiar with it please? I loaded a few MP3s. One had no
>> YEAR tag according to my other players (MediaMonkey, WMP9, WinAmp
>> etc). Yet in Foobar, R-click > Properties displays a 'MetaData' window
>> which does shows Year (= 1942). Several other fields in Foobar don't
>> square with tags in those other players, such as COMMENT, and GENRE.
>> That last for example is shown as 'Easy Listening' in Media Monkey
>> etc, but in Foobar it is 'popular music 1925-1955'
>>
>> Where can Foobar be getting this data from please?
>
>Checking the site's forum and wading through it (the search wasn't too
>functional so I guessed and seem to have been on track) took a few minutes
>but:
>
>http://www.freedb.org/

Thanks, but how do you reach that conclusion please?

The example I gave was Dinah Shore - Miss You; Track 3 from
'Great Romantic Memories of The War Years Disk 3'

If I go to the Advanced Search page at
http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search.php
and enter 'Dinah Shore - Miss You'
then these 6 albums are displayed

Dinah Shore All Time Greatest Hits - Volume 1
Dinah Shore Best Of Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore Fascination: The Encore Collection
Dinah Shore Love And Kisses Dinah
Dinah Shore Private Collection
Dinah Shore Sounds Of The 20th Century Disc 2
dinah shore the very best of dinah shore

The album I am seeking isn't included.

I gather from a reply in alt.music.mp3 that the data probably comes
from 'APE tags', but I can't say I yet properly understand this.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK