tqft's Journal: Oh Gods Of Slashdot - searching local cddb

I have cddb from freedb.org downloaded locally for when I am offline and because it is faster.

I have the most recent updates.

And yes I have been submitting back for years when I get a cd that doesn't get a match. Please forgive my errors.

The problem:

I want to search it in a a useful way. I have tried googling, including a search targetted at sourceforge.net, for an app that sits over ~/.cddb

Say I have five tracks by one one or more artists and I want to know which, if any album, they are all on.

At present freedb online search isn't working and seems a waste of bandwidth when all the data is available locally.

System specs: Ubuntu Dapper. Fast enough that am running 2 instances of grep against the files in ~/.cddb and not producing any real slowdown on machine.

Grep might be useful in some instances (eg a fairly unique song title or artist spitting out the name). But I would like a pretty interface against an index as my wife may also want to use this.

Some ideas:
import into a proper (SQL) database, index and search using a pretty gui (OpenOffice?).

Beg Firefox extension developers to write an extension that imports the data into a "webpage", and search that.

??? - out of ideas.

Have I missed the obvious? Are my search skills failing me?

Specific example of i/o requirements.

I want to know what cd's James Taylor Traffic Jam appears on.

I did from ~/.cddb > grep -ri "traffic jam" ~/*

and got a whole long list of directory/filename info which if I had output to a file I could have then parsed that to give me a list of filenames (assuming I have a clue).

The application links at freedb.org point out for linux "Freedb Easy Navigator" other than the players which use cddb. However - other than being freeware and a binary blob I have no information on it and I can't find a linux version to download.