Comment by al_borland
2 days ago
Was there a period where it was good? I tried in back around 2001 or 2002 and it produced a mess. I swore it off and figured it wouldn’t be around long. Here we are over 20 years later hearing that it’s too error-ridden to use.
These days something like MusicBrainz is effectively a legacy system. So few people buy CDs anymore that there's not a lot of interest in maintaining it. It's fairly hard to even find a computer with an optical disk reader these days, especially if you are looking at laptops.
Note that the scope of the project goes beyond CDs, it's a catalogue for pretty much any format where you can play music.
It's used as the basis in a _lot_ of places. So fixing errors fixes them in a lot of other websites (and infoboxes).
Never worked fine for me, at least not fine enough to trust it.