The Gracenote CDDB database is created by users uploading data. Although Gracenote claims to be trying to improve the database quality, there is little evidence of this happening, hence the problems you face with data quality. Alternatives to using Gracenote are FreeDB and Musicbrainz in the open source world, and the commercial Lasso service from AMG. FreeDB and Musicbrainz have been around for several years and are similar to Gracenote by virtue of letting users enter the data in the database. Lasso is quite different in that the data is entered by music experts, not users. I personally do not like the mistakes in the genres I get from Gracenote.
Steven W.
The Gracenote CDDB database is created by users uploading data. Although Gracenote claims to be trying to improve the database quality, there is little evidence of this happening, hence the problems you face with data quality. Alternatives to using Gracenote are FreeDB and Musicbrainz in the open source world, and the commercial Lasso service from AMG. FreeDB and Musicbrainz have been around for several years and are similar to Gracenote by virtue of letting users enter the data in the database. Lasso is quite different in that the data is entered by music experts, not users. I personally do not like the mistakes in the genres I get from Gracenote.