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When I try to rip a CD with abcde it always returns:

MusicBrainz lookup returned an error "Not Found"

but when I run abcde-musicbrainz-tool it can return discid:

2Abo08qbmuoiRQqzbVxAqhBFjBM- 23 150 12781 28999 46084 59816 66151 76276 92595 113027 129557 149900 171945 183322 191990 214045 223417 249454 261333 274261 299227 309980 330897 343322 4732

(This is Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn album by Charles Mackerras.)

I wonder if there's a way to fix abcde's CD lookup problem, or to input the information given by abcde-musicbrainz-tool during ripping?

(Using Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS)

Jiewei Xiong
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Disclaimer: I was one of the abcde developers from 2015-2017...

It is not always necessary to use abcde-musicbrainz-tool for your CDDB lookup needs with abcde. There is an older protocol in place that can be accessed by adding the following to your ~/.abcde.conf file:

CDDBMETHOD=cddb
CDDBURL="http://gnudb.gnudb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi"

And this may be all you need to get your CDDB searches going.

To round out this usage a little you would also be wise to also add the following:

CDDBCOPYLOCAL="y"
CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb"
CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE="y"
CDDBUSELOCAL="y"

This will make your future searches a little more efficient.

Caveat:

Although you should find that abcde works well enough bear in mind that the project is somewhat somnolent at the moment and unlikely to receive much more development.

andrew.46
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