FreeDB.com - URGENT!!!!!

[salas]

Hi, good day.
We are in the process of opening an online retail store in South Africa.
One of our product lines is the sale of CDs over the internet.
We have now become a distributer of Sony and receive a catalogue every week.
Our problem is this, that although we receive an excel spreadsheet of over 9000 CDs none of them have any form of description(other than the Artist, title and barcode). We obviously need more information than the title, such as description, genre, date released etc. and also need a picture of the CD cover.

What I would like to know is whether FreeDB.com has such a database, whether it is accessible via the CD barcode and whether I am allowed to access it?
If so, how do I do that?
If not do you know where I can find any such database?
Thanks, in advance, for your help.

 

[mici]

freedb.com??

 

[shogun]

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EDIT: I think the OP is referring to http://www.freedb.org/

"freedb is a database to look up CD information using the internet. This is done by a client (a freedb aware application) which calculates a (nearly) unique disc ID for a CD in your CD-Rom and then queries the database. As a result, the client displays the artist, CD-title, tracklist and some additional info."

 

[concentricpuddle]

In order to get information from FreeDB.org you need to be able to calculate the disc-id of each cd. The algorithm with which to calculate is on the FreeDB [too lazy to link to it] site. If you find it tricky, there're a bunch of implementations that you can find via a bit of Googling.

That being said, rather use MusicBrainz or Discogs as both provide tons more info than FreeDB. FreeDB only does artist, title and album. MusicBrainz more and Discogs way more (but their API docs are crappy).

 

[salas]

thanks

thanks guys, will try out your suggestions concentricpuddle!