Accessing FreeDB with PHP - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

joemc91 · 02-01-2005, 06:19 PM

I've been looking for an easy way to query the FreeDB using PHP and have come up with nothing so far. Everything I have seen bases the search off a discid and I want to search by artist, album, or song. I'm trying to build a module for my website to add a "I'm listening to ___" to my blog. Any help or other sources of this information besides FreeDB is appreciated.

theFez · 02-01-2005, 08:55 PM

take a look at the database search on freedb. check out the query string. you can just build a query string, open the file, then parse out the data you are interested in.

joemc91 · 02-02-2005, 05:09 AM

I considered that as an option but it's really not very elegant, though I'm sure it would work.

02-01-2005, 06:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
joemc91 Insane Location: Chicago	Accessing FreeDB with PHP I've been looking for an easy way to query the FreeDB using PHP and have come up with nothing so far. Everything I have seen bases the search off a discid and I want to search by artist, album, or song. I'm trying to build a module for my website to add a "I'm listening to ___" to my blog. Any help or other sources of this information besides FreeDB is appreciated. __________________ I prefer desert wines to dessert wines. Dry and red

02-01-2005, 08:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
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02-02-2005, 05:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
joemc91 Insane Location: Chicago	I considered that as an option but it's really not very elegant, though I'm sure it would work. __________________ I prefer desert wines to dessert wines. Dry and red