Comment by pavon

It depends. I'd like to argue that you have to enter the information one way or another, why not share it and save others the work in the future, but in reality it is often quite a bit slower. MusicBrainz likes to collect more information than a normal CD riper would ask for, with more pages to click-through, so that is a bit slower. However, the main annoyance is when you have to make a correction that isn't auto approved, and then you have to wait 7 days before your tagger/ripper software will see changes you made. I wish there was a better workflow to tell Picard to use a pending edit[1].

I still always use MusicBrainz, and enjoy contributing to it, but more like others enjoy contributing to Wikipedia, rather than as an efficiency boost.

[1]https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1278