Existing users, 
I tried this and it failed to find anything on 98% of my library. It only caught the Megumi Hayashibara [林原めぐみ] albums I converted to AAC, and about 10% of the material was suggested to be from popular US albums (of which I haven't encoded any, yet, since I can tune to a dozen different radio stations at the moment, for better and more random "playlists.").
On top of that, my 5,000 song library (of which only 2% of my CDs have been encoded, yet) cannot be imported into the Brainz system -- since there is no direct import feature for this software (and I keep getting told to go to freedb by the MusicBrainz website -- not very helpful). I spent thousands of hours typing the Kanji, German, Spanish, Cyrillic, and French titles in, and the service won't even take the information? (though wildly inaccurate, at least CDDB will display and take that info!) On top of that, the service doesn't even keep the original language available, but questionable translations into English? It should at least have fields for the original language on Titles and Artists. (Though this is not necessarily the service's fault, it is definitely a problem because I can't get my information in, and apparently not many other's who care about accuracy can).
I'm still waiting for the service that will actually include the Catalog Number of the albums listed. This one piece of information will guarantee correct selection no matter what language the material is in, and will help prevent bootlegger compilation discs and home-mixes from appearing in the database.
On a scale of 1-10, I'd give the software itself a 5 (it'd get a 7 if it had an upload function, and an 8 or 9 if it was faster).
The service, for my own personal use gets a 2 (if I was just a rap mogul or a common rocker, it'd be higher, but my tastes run all over the musical world and styles, and this service currently sucks for that
Overall, the service needs to be much better to make the software worthwhile, and additions have to be made available from the software. Also, a safe method of preserving old tags (in case of error) would be preferable to duplicating your entire library (especially since my backups are on DVD-Rs, because I don't have a TB of hard drive space).
Some of this may seem snobbish, but if CDDB can do it, why can't MusicBrainz?
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Version: 5.3.7
Great for popular US albums, SUCKS for rare international albums
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Aikousha Tuesday, December 14 2004 @ 09:11 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Software IS great - applestar
Seems that you just did not understand how the software works. CDDB only a general CD fingerprint with the music titles in the database. So as long as you ripped the music title including the original CD code CDDB will possible find a match.iEatBrainz does something totally different: It calculated a couple of fingerprints out of the music - it does not need the original CD identificator. The music pattern is the key to the fingerprint. Like everyone else I got a lot of MP3 music files without the proper original CD tag and with no title information. I had no idea how to find out the proper song names.
in the first test 16 out of 35 titles where found, 5 of them had to be manually specified out of 2 or 3 differnt titles, no problem.
This software is really great. It will rely on us all to add further music fingerprints. But I love this program.
Please, take some time if you review a program. "..sucks" "...doesnt work" blabla is not helpful at all, little script kiddies ...
Tuesday, December 21 2004 @ 12:40 AM PST
Ah, the barbed response ... - minton
I've seen too many people here demeaned as "little script kiddies", a worthless cliche that's better kept between you and your sys admin friends. She tried the program, it didn't work and she gave a good explanation why. 16 out of 35, wow, that's pretty good. Have fun listening to Lynard Skynard.Saturday, April 09 2005 @ 02:44 AM PDT
Great for popular US albums, SUCKS for rare international albums - jbtule23
<i>On top of that, the service doesn't even keep the original language available, but questionable translations into English? It should at least have fields for the original language on Titles and Artists. (Though this is not necessarily the service's fault, it is definitely a problem because I can't get my information in, and apparently not many other's who care about accuracy can).</i>You should rant about musicbrainz international support, on their international support mailinglist. http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-i18n
But when you are talking about rare international album, it's not that those who care about accuracy can't get their mods in, it's that there are less people moderating and importing rare internation albums. If you care about it do it.
<i>. Also, a safe method of preserving old tags (in case of error) would be preferable to duplicating your entire library (especially since my backups are on DVD-Rs, because I don't have a TB of hard drive space).</i>
Need the ability to write and read m4a tags before this can happen, sorry. Just be sure you want to update the tag before you do it. iEatBrainz these days has enough safeguards such that you won't have to worry about it updating the a song that you weren't expecting to receive the meta.
<i>Some of this may seem snobbish, but if CDDB can do it, why can't MusicBrainz?</i>
It is snobbish, and the reason is because CDDB is cd oriented, musicbrainz is music oriented. CDDB needs a cd hash before you can add it to the database, musicbrainz doesn't need anything, so they need to be a little more careful on adding song meta.
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