FreeDB extractor

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Wandora's FreeDB extractor converts [http://www.freedb.org freedb] database entries to a topic map. Freedb is a huge database of CD information. Freedb database contains disc titles, artists, track names, and disc genres for example. Database's license is GPL General Public License. Freedb can be downloaded at
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Wandora's FreeDB extractor converts [http://www.freedb.org freedb] database entries to a topic map. Freedb is a huge database of CD information. Database is a collection of formatted plain text files. Each database file contains information about one disc: titles, artists, track names, and genres for example. Database's license is GPL General Public License. Freedb can be downloaded at
  
* [ftp://ftp.freedb.org]
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* [http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/ http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/]
* [http://ftp.freedb.org]
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To start Wandora's FreeDB extractor select '''File > Extract > FreeDB extractor...''' and point the database entry files or database entry folder. The database contains over 2.5 million entries and you can't extract all data to memory topic map. Memory topic map suits well for partial extractions. To extract whole database you need to use database topic map.
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To start Wandora's FreeDB extractor select '''File > Extract > Media > FreeDB extractor...''' and point database entry file(s) or a database entry folder. The database contains over 2.5 million files and you can't extract all that data to a memory topic map. [[Memory topic map]] suits only for partial extractions. To extract the whole database you need to use a [[Database topic map|database topic map]].
  
See Wandora's sample folder for an example of FreeDB extraction.
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See Wandora's sample folder for an example of FreeDB extraction. [http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/misc/freedb_database_format_specs.zip Freedb database format specification] may help you to understand the conversion process.

Latest revision as of 16:32, 15 March 2009

Wandora's FreeDB extractor converts freedb database entries to a topic map. Freedb is a huge database of CD information. Database is a collection of formatted plain text files. Each database file contains information about one disc: titles, artists, track names, and genres for example. Database's license is GPL General Public License. Freedb can be downloaded at

To start Wandora's FreeDB extractor select File > Extract > Media > FreeDB extractor... and point database entry file(s) or a database entry folder. The database contains over 2.5 million files and you can't extract all that data to a memory topic map. Memory topic map suits only for partial extractions. To extract the whole database you need to use a database topic map.

See Wandora's sample folder for an example of FreeDB extraction. Freedb database format specification may help you to understand the conversion process.

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