Post data to accurip

[smeinecke]

I am just wondering if there is any plan to submit entries to accurip DB aswell. Right now it's only requesting data from the accurip database without increasing the "confidence" counter.

[chuckufarley73]

Happy to be corrected, but from memory I don't think submissions to the Accuraterip database (as opposed to lookups) are possible other than when using a very select few Windows specific apps (EAC and dbpoweramp being the principal ones) as a consequence of them having the necessary approval to do from Illustrate Ltd, the company run by the developer of dbpoweramp.

I can see a logic as to why such limitations apply in some respects but think it more unfortunate that the CTDB operated by CUETools isn't more widely supported/accessible across apps (again licensing I assume) as this has some capacity to repair damaged tracks, under certain circumstances, as a result of parity data being uploaded after ripping, if the corresponding option is enabled. That's handy!

[tjanez]

unfortunate that the CTDB operated by CUETools isn't more widely supported/accessible across apps (again licensing I assume)

The author of this project noted severe issues with CTDB here #54 (comment):

Its closed source, hasn't got specifications, it's badly executed, and there are dubious legal aspects to holding recovery data on a server and distributing it for free (these days even publicizing a checksum of copyrighted data is enough to get in trouble).