# Possible Alternative
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [December 15, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536 "2004-12-15T01:35:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Grumb13](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Grumb13)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/1 "2004-12-15T01:35:42Z")
Hey Florian,
Awesome Awesome tagger ya got here...
Only thing I don't like is the freedb support - I'm not a big fan of the freedb because of the multiple instances of every album etc. - can get somewhat messy.
I am a stickler for tagging my music the correct way and producing filenames that match and your program does this beautifully.
I liked Tag&Rename for only one reason and that wasfor the AMG support it had, when that went out the door because of the TOS I started looking and came across your nice little proggy.
Clean - No BS - That's what I like.
I was wandering around looking at the AMG site to match and make sure a set of freedb tags was correct - which is terribly painful because the AMG site sux, when it occured to me....
Have you thought about using [http://ubl.artistdirect.com](http://ubl.artistdirect.com) as a source for the tagging? TOS seems to be OK, might need to read it closer, but might be worth making a parser so that it can grab info from it.
Could be better than the freedb - dunno how many entries it actually has, but it seems to be a fairly complete listing.
Give me some feedback on what you might think about this and whether it might be possible to try it.
I am glad that you haven't gone the route of Amazon or some such... but this could be a valid alternative if at all possible.
I do know that The Godfather has actually used a script to go ahead and use the AMG site but thier program is such a clusterbeep that I am not even interested.
I have actually passed your program on to some other peeps and we all agree it is awesome.
With the addition of a better tagging source and... well my one wee thing is...
I sure would like to have the album art in my file... I know I know I have read the forums, but I like that because I like having it load when I am listening to my music.
Other than that - perfect - easy to use - no extra dumb crap and a clean interface.
MP3Tag doesnt do everything some of the other programs, but it does the things it does beautifully... the things I want it to do.
Keep up the excellent work 🙂
Thanks,
G13
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/2 "2004-12-24T07:34:04Z")
Thanks for your feedback!
I'm already working on a web sources framework for Mp3tag which would make all kinds of websites with album information available to Mp3tag via simple parser scripts for the websites contents.
Best regards,
~ Florian 
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/3 "2005-01-16T19:42:03Z")
Hi Grumb13!
The current [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de) is theoretically able to gather album information from the website you've suggested as possible alternative.
The only thing which remains, is that someone have to create a web source description file based on the example I did for [discogs.com](http://discogs.com).
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@Shadow\_Skill](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shadow_Skill)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/4 "2005-01-16T21:11:52Z")
> [@](#):
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> Thanks for your feedback!
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> I'm already working on a web sources framework for Mp3tag which would make all kinds of websites with album information available to Mp3tag via simple parser scripts for the websites contents.
>
> Best regards,
> ~ Florian 
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Why can't mp3tag simply be made to let the user use whichever tagging service or website they want?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/5 "2005-01-16T21:15:34Z")
> [@](#):
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> Why can't mp3tag simply be made to let the user use whichever tagging service or website they want?
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Check out the latest [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de) and create web source description files for whatever website you want (take discogs.src as example) 🙂
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/6 "2005-01-17T15:09:06Z")
Is there a tutorial/documentation?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/7 "2005-01-17T15:23:45Z")
> [@](#):
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> Is there a tutorial/documentation?
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
The only documentation is discogs.src at the moment 🙂
If you're interested, I can compile a help topic containing all functions from the scripting language used and the meaning of the fields used in the description file.
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/8 "2005-01-17T15:32:08Z")
Yes, that'd be nice.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/9 "2005-01-17T18:26:34Z")
> [@](#):
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> Yes, that'd be nice.
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
[Done](https://docs.mp3tag.de/tag-sources). 🙂
Please don't hesitate to ask, if you have any questions!
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@beaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beaker)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/10 "2005-01-18T19:17:45Z")
Grumb13, are you going to try to attempt this for ubl.artistdirect?
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### Author:  [@Grumb13](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Grumb13)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/11 "2005-01-22T23:43:19Z")
> [@](#):
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> Grumb13, are you going to try to attempt this for ubl.artistdirect?
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
I might try - I'm not a coder or anything but I will have a look.
😳
If I can figure it out, rest assured I'll post something here.
-G
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### Author:  [@shufty](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/shufty)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/12 "2005-01-26T02:02:23Z")
ok, this is what i came up with in 2 hours, didnt recognise the code, so this is the best i could do. Had another little fiddle, was kinda tired when i did it, this should work now. cut out
OK, so it didn't work. i've tried to use the debug command but it just isn't working. The framework help is a great help though, gave me a better understanding about what is being sent and how. Any ideas on why the deboug output isnt working?
[artistd.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c0ae4c8376108a641c239a7cee38e67ee0e49cb2.zip) (937 Bytes)
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/13 "2005-01-30T11:53:58Z")
Hi shufty,
the problem with your script was, that it was based on the artist search and the web source didn't gave you an album page, but a page with multiple artists. I've reworked your web source definition file and posted it at the [announcement thread](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/1633/1).
It would be nice, if you can test it 🙂 Thanks for your interest!
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@shufty](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/shufty)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/14 "2005-01-30T21:03:59Z")
Thanks for looking at it, Florian. Had a little look and it still doesn't seem to be working: I get an error "Sorry, no entires matching your search criteria" Also had another error, could not connect to discogs when i searched for an album. Not sure why it would be trying to do that and looking at the source for the page, im stumped lol.
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### Author:  [@Grumb13](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Grumb13)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/15 "2005-01-31T00:56:05Z")
Florian,
How do you get the allmusic.src file to show up to use it?
I put it in with the discogs.src file but I'm not getting it showing up or anything.
Is there something else I should be doing?
Thanks,
G13
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/16 "2005-01-31T11:09:48Z")
On Windows, click START-\>RUN. Enter %appdata%
Then browse to Mp3tag\data\sources
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/17 "2005-01-31T11:12:54Z")
> [@](#):
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> Had a little look and it still doesn't seem to be working: I get an error "Sorry, no entires matching your search criteria"
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Maybe you get this error, because "no entires matching your search criteria" 🙂 Try to search for it manually on their website to be sure.
Cheers,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@Grumb13](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Grumb13)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/18 "2005-01-31T22:51:54Z")
> [@](#):
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> On Windows, click START-\>RUN. Enter %appdata%
> Then browse to Mp3tag\data\sources
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Dano,
I did what you said but the artistdirect.src file doesn't show up... what am I doing wrong?
If I do this correctly will it place a artistdirect dropdown in my web lookup button in the program GUI?
Sorry about this, I must seem dumb as a rock... 
Thanks for your help,
G13
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/19 "2005-01-31T23:26:37Z")
Where's your discogs.src file located?
If you have WinXP, the file should exist 2 times.
try CTR+F in windows explorer to search for both discogs.src files. One of its locations is the one that is used by mp3tag.
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### Author:  [@Grumb13](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Grumb13)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/possible-alternative/1536/20 "2005-01-31T23:57:19Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Maybe you get this error, because "no entires matching your search criteria" 🙂 Try to search for it manually on their website to be sure.
>
> Cheers,
> ~ Florian
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Hey Florian,
I have been playing with the new artistdirect.src file and shufty is correct it is not giving back search hits.
I was wondering after looking at the file itself if it could be because the default web search string is "artist" and you have it searching album?
I dunno, but I do know that the albums I am searching are on the website because I did a manual search on 10 or so and they were all there, but none of them came up as hits with the src file.
I think it would work better if its default search string was artist anyway... what do you think? 
Thanks,
G13
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