What tagging options are available for new CDs?

Now that freedb is shut down what is everyone using? What options are available? Self-tagging the new Dylan set was murder.

 

What program do you use to rip CDs? I use dbpoweramp and most of the time for new CDs I use the manual feature to copy the disc info over from Discogs.

 

http://gnudb.org/

MusicBrainz Picard

 

I thought somebody else started hosting freedb...? New location...?

 

That's GnuDb
The new freedb

 

Many of the ripping and tagging programs that are still in active development have updated to switch to using GnuDb instead of Freedb. For example, the latest version of EAC has switched over to GnuDb. The GnuDb How To page explains how to direct Freedb aware applications to use GnuDb instead. GnuDb How To.

Freedb and now GnuDb are nice because they're so easy to add new releases to. However, they have no standard or convention for naming. No editors looking out to make sure the database and naming conventions are consistent. GnuDb is a wild west of naming conventions. Especially for classical.

MusicBrainz has editors and a style book for how to submit. The data is very consistent for naming conventions and what each field is for. Makes the data much more usable. But makes submitting new entries for new CDs a PITA. I love MusicBrainz for getting data. I dislike MusicBrainz for when I want to submit a new CD. I'm learning. I managed to submit a classical CD recently. When I get the hang of it I'll submit more. But dang, submitting to MusicBrainz is difficult enough that it is bound to discourage people from adding to their database.

MusicBrainz Picard is designed to help you use the MusicBrainz database to tag your files and submit new entries. But Picard itself is a confusing application to use. It does not work the way I think it should. MusicBrainz has a quick start guide on how to use Picard. That guide helps you get started. But I still don't like the way the program works or the way the program forces you to work to be able to use it.

I'm making an effort to contribute to MusicBrainz. I don't want to be just a leach of their data. If I'm making this much use of their data I should contribute. I want to. But they don't make it easy.

 

Right, same here Don, if it's so new it's not in the database yet.
Feature has been extremely useful for cd singles.