Shared Media Catalogs Over The Internet?

datawrangler asks: "For many years and for many reasons, I have postponed the task of creating a database of all my LPs, cassettes, CDs, and videotapes. Nearly twenty years ago, I made the effort to enter my comix collection into a database and all I have to show for it is a couple of 5.25" Apple ][ floppies which I can no longer read. Now that I live in a Web-enabled world, I am re-inspired to catalog all my media. It will take a good deal of time, but I will gladly invest it knowing that my collection is forever searchable via Internet. But how to proceed? I want to take a leaf from CDDB's book, and conform to their schema - or do I? Has anyone yet designed a useful standard for implementing a distributed database of recordings? How should I design my Web-enabled database so that it tells me not only that I own six recordings of 'How High The Moon' but also that there are 274 other known recordings of that tune?" A tall order, but something that might prove to be worthwhile. Thoughts?

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this may help

[aint]

you may have already checked these out but hotscripts lists a few interesting audio(mp3) management utilities. see :

• for php ones
• for perl ones

none do exactly what you desire but being that most are opensource, they could ... ;) the cddb feature is of course the tricky part. you'll see that one of the perl scripts (RipIt) sort of does it but doesn't have a web-interface but idk, maybe it could.

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Alternatives for CDDB

[vrt3]

There are two alternatives that I know of: freedb, which is cddb compatible, and CD index, that is more feature-rich. Both are open source and promise to be open source forever.