My 2 cents worth, and getting a couple more whip-strokes on the corpse...

As I almost always prefer editing to writing from scratch, I use the CDDB and edit what it gives me. Yes, there are some annoying mistakes, but most of the time the information is pretty good. And I think the final word on a database written by a huge number of volunteers is that there is absolutely no competition from the record companies themselves, either in the form of another database or in the form of the submission of correct entries. The record industry almost couldn't care less about people wanting to get their CD titles other than by typing them in themselves.

The more you read about the bad attitude of record companies, the more you wonder how they still exist...

Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.