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I love Musicbrainz for the service they offer, but the following is happening at KUBE and I'm currently ripping everything into OGG format. So far I've got through K&L (don't ask, it was just completely random).

I'm now reflecting on the whole system, musicbrainz made the whole inputting artists a breeze, I have photos of all CD's which are semi useful but no website seems to want to take them (copyright issue etc).
I also question if using OGG is best, though the only format higher than OGG is FLAC, given K&L have taken up 462MB and we have 750GB to spare, so I could use FLAC but it'll probably get tight after a year or so but hard drive storage is cheap.

After Easter at KUBE we're finally dumping a purely CD based system in favor of using playout software on our computer, given other great changes concerning our funding has made this a reality.

The whole process could be made incredibly simplistic by the record industry if the following was observed:

Submit fingerprints to databases

This pretty much precedes all problems, if every CD produced for promotional purposes had it's fingerprint submitted to all databases then everything would be accurate. The absolute lack of the record companies to build this functionality into their systems baffle me, well unless they already do it but I have to be paying them off for access to such information.

CD text

Whilst wikipedia *reliably* informs me that CD text is the solution to unnamed CD's, nobody uses it. Sometimes the correct name of the artist will occur but nothing reliable enough to script for.

Graphic design

I'm not entirely sure why any effort is spent on promotional CD's to have any graphical design, because I'm having to manually enter all the CD details then I'm have to read all the song names. I only have the CD's, before the CD goes into the drive I take a photo and read the details off that, but if I have to keep zooming in then it just slows the process.

I also wish to know why they need any graphic design, does a really fancy design of CD get it played on the radio? All the CD's I've been through so far have a completely different design to that of the retail single. It's probably just yet another source of wasted money from the record companies.

All Moby CD's should be destroyed

No this isn't a Enimmen statement, I don't know what exactly is wrong with the freedb CDDB database, but it's just odd how so many CD's are identified as Moby tracks.

Maybe a deeper thing concerning that Moby uses every musical feature found in most songs? I'd look deeper into the issue but I've got about 800 CD's to get through.