# Mp3tag v2.36a freedb failure

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 20, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788 "2006-09-20T00:51:34Z")
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788/1 "2006-09-20T00:51:34Z")

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freedb "determine via web-search" always gives "The query returned no results."even when the saem query to the freedb web page does give results.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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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: [September 20, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788/2 "2006-09-20T05:32:45Z")

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[/t/3069/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3069/1)

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788/3 "2006-09-21T14:31:57Z")

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Thanks, that cured it.

But I'm puzzled - what was the cause? Did a freedb change break its own API?

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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: [September 21, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788/4 "2006-09-21T15:10:57Z")

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There's no API for the web search, it's just a html site from [freedb.org](http://freedb.org) that needs to be parsed.  
Some minor html code changes made the parsing fail.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788/5 "2006-09-21T15:47:34Z")

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> There's no API for the web search, it's just a html site from [freedb.org](http://freedb.org)

Urk! If there's really no alternative DB with a formal API, why I wonder hasn't someone independently provided a proper external API to freedb? Then changes would have patchups like this one to mp3tag done in only one place, and would be instant, rather than the cahnges leaving the likes of mp3tag broken.

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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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-36a-freedb-failure/3788/6 "2026-02-09T12:19:54Z")

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