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“Unfortunately, only the most famous audio books are stored in the database.“ Anyone can upload new entries there AFAIK. They also have a workflow to dedupe wor

“Unfortunately, only the most famous audio books are stored in the database.“ Anyone can upload new entries there AFAIK. They also have a workflow to dedupe works manually that you’d probably need to otherwise implement yourself too. Do you think you’ll be able to add a lot of value reinventing this wheel? I’m honestly curious because I was thinking about mp3 fingerprinting in my collection as some point and went for Apple Music instead at some point (which is also less than ideal).

sandreas 8y ago
You are right... you can add releases: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_a_Release https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_a_Release But i did not find any documentation, how to do this programmatically / via API, which would be essential for m4b-tool. It's not like I want to criticize your proposal. You are absolutely right, yet another track / chapter database would not be very helpful in general - but the things that i could find out about musicbrainz do not really fit my needs. Especially, because musicbrainz is more for music than for audiobooks. In my opinion, the usability of the web interface, the filtering options and the api of musicbrainz are not always helpful... An example: Open musicbrainz.org and try to find "Harry Potter" with the search bar on the upper right. It's nearly impossible without further investigation. Sure... you could provide the authors name "Joanne K. Rowling" and then do a facetted search for the title, but in my opinion this could be much better. m4b-tool is able to use the music-brainz-id for loading chapters and tagging audiobooks. But another problem is, that there is a shift between the cd version, mp3 version, download version etc. of the audiobook. So chapter marks have to be matched via silence detection and best fit, which is not always 100% accurate... I am working on an audiobook database, that contains very sophisticated filtering options. It's a project just for fun and perhaps it will never be released / online :-) I could certainly do better with my time and the value is questionable, but as long as it's fun... ;)
- flatfilefan 8y ago
  API is kinda here: https://acoustid.org/webservice#submit https://acoustid.org/webservice#submit "The AcoustID web service currently supports only two operations, searching in the fingerprint database and submitting new fingerprints into the database." But I believe you can just reach out to whoever is behind MusicBrainz or Acoutstid and get some information to make a better decision.

sandreas 8y ago

You are right... you can add releases: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_a_Release https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_a_Release But i did not find any documentation, how to do this programmatically / via API, which would be essential for m4b-tool. It's not like I want to criticize your proposal. You are absolutely right, yet another track / chapter database would not be very helpful in general - but the things that i could find out about musicbrainz do not really fit my needs. Especially, because musicbrainz is more for music than for audiobooks. In my opinion, the usability of the web interface, the filtering options and the api of musicbrainz are not always helpful... An example: Open musicbrainz.org and try to find "Harry Potter" with the search bar on the upper right. It's nearly impossible without further investigation. Sure... you could provide the authors name "Joanne K. Rowling" and then do a facetted search for the title, but in my opinion this could be much better. m4b-tool is able to use the music-brainz-id for loading chapters and tagging audiobooks. But another problem is, that there is a shift between the cd version, mp3 version, download version etc. of the audiobook. So chapter marks have to be matched via silence detection and best fit, which is not always 100% accurate... I am working on an audiobook database, that contains very sophisticated filtering options. It's a project just for fun and perhaps it will never be released / online :-) I could certainly do better with my time and the value is questionable, but as long as it's fun... ;)

flatfilefan 8y ago
API is kinda here: https://acoustid.org/webservice#submit https://acoustid.org/webservice#submit "The AcoustID web service currently supports only two operations, searching in the fingerprint database and submitting new fingerprints into the database." But I believe you can just reach out to whoever is behind MusicBrainz or Acoutstid and get some information to make a better decision.