# freedb results always wrong

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 15, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454 "2008-03-15T18:04:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![citrus8832](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@citrus8832](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/citrus8832)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454/1 "2008-03-15T18:04:42Z")

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Hi, Im wondering why every time I perform a quick freedb search, the correct results never show up in the window.

EG: I have the following file with the following info already loaded in the tags:

Filename: Billy Talent - This Suffering.mp3  
Title Tag: This Suffering  
Artist Tag: Billy Talent

I am trying to get MP3Tag 2.40 to populate the album information, but the correct artist never shows up in the results window. This is happening with many files.

What am I doing wrong?

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454/2 "2008-03-15T20:45:32Z")

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Which of the 4 methods do you use?

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### Author: ![citrus8832](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@citrus8832](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/citrus8832)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454/3 "2008-03-16T06:24:44Z")

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I've tried all of them. If I choose "determine via websearch" at least I get the right artist in the results, however I get a lot of results, and MP3Tag doesn't seem smart enough to scan through the results, and see which ones actually contain that artist / title combination. The feature is useless if I have to manually go through all the results and choose the right album.

What isn't MP3Tag "smart enough" to choose the correct freedb result on its own?

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:50Z")

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