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Cannot submit changes to Freedb/AMG
Hello,
I was concerned that I was going to run into this problem. I'm not into popular music, nor am I into RAP. So, my esoteric jazz collection winds up getting entered manually. I'm sure PerfectMeta is wonderful... but, I'm not willing to listen to RAP in order to use it!
I'm exaggerating a little... some of my jazz CDs are recognized. And that's pure bliss.
The frustrating thing is two fold.
1) When a CD is not recognized and I have to do the manual entry, I must eject the disc in order to read the tracks. Some CDs have 25 tracks... so, that is a LOT of ejecting because I can only remember about two tracks at a time. So, it's in-and-out, in-and-out. Sometimes DBP will keep the track entry on the screen after ejecting so that I can simply read and enter (yippee!!), but 9times out of 10, the screen goes blank when the CD is ejected (by either method, the radio button, or the physical button on the CD player). Anyway, it's a bit of a buggy portion of the program.
2) After doing ALL THAT WORK... and I am quite thorough... well, I'd like to "pay it forward" and submit the changes to AMG and Freedb. But, those selections on the pull down menu are grayed out 90-percent of the time. What's up with that??? I've been able to submit only 1 out of 10 disks. Something is very wrong with that. If I'm getting shorted because my collection is NOT in the databases, well... I can see why. I can't put all my efforts into the public record either. That is quite frustrating when it doesn't work.
And this is related:
3) If I elect to do a disc rip in two sessions... say, 5 tracks now and pause for ten minutes and finish up with the final 5 tracks. When it comes time to submit the results to AccurateRip, the data shows only 1 CD and only 5 tracks, not the full 10 tracks. Now, what's up with THAT??? There was NO ejecting in between... no funny business, just checking-off 5 tracks, rip them... and do it again for the final 5 tracks. So, the next guy gets screwed out of having 5 tracks on AccurateRip. What's up with THAT??
Please tell me:
4) Where is the entry data kept for when I am doing my manual entries for track names, artist, year, etc., etc.? Somewhere there must be a text file where this is kept before it gets used for the Rip and encoding. Where is this text file? It might be TONS easier for me to enter this data into a file than to have to deal with click-click, wait, click again... move the curser, click again... type like crazy... repeat, etc., etc.
And finally:
5) Where is the data kept... again, I am expecting a text file somewhere... that gets submitted to AccurateRip?
Thank you kindly ALL,
Love2fly
I was concerned that I was going to run into this problem. I'm not into popular music, nor am I into RAP. So, my esoteric jazz collection winds up getting entered manually. I'm sure PerfectMeta is wonderful... but, I'm not willing to listen to RAP in order to use it!
I'm exaggerating a little... some of my jazz CDs are recognized. And that's pure bliss.
The frustrating thing is two fold.
1) When a CD is not recognized and I have to do the manual entry, I must eject the disc in order to read the tracks. Some CDs have 25 tracks... so, that is a LOT of ejecting because I can only remember about two tracks at a time. So, it's in-and-out, in-and-out. Sometimes DBP will keep the track entry on the screen after ejecting so that I can simply read and enter (yippee!!), but 9times out of 10, the screen goes blank when the CD is ejected (by either method, the radio button, or the physical button on the CD player). Anyway, it's a bit of a buggy portion of the program.
2) After doing ALL THAT WORK... and I am quite thorough... well, I'd like to "pay it forward" and submit the changes to AMG and Freedb. But, those selections on the pull down menu are grayed out 90-percent of the time. What's up with that??? I've been able to submit only 1 out of 10 disks. Something is very wrong with that. If I'm getting shorted because my collection is NOT in the databases, well... I can see why. I can't put all my efforts into the public record either. That is quite frustrating when it doesn't work.
And this is related:
3) If I elect to do a disc rip in two sessions... say, 5 tracks now and pause for ten minutes and finish up with the final 5 tracks. When it comes time to submit the results to AccurateRip, the data shows only 1 CD and only 5 tracks, not the full 10 tracks. Now, what's up with THAT??? There was NO ejecting in between... no funny business, just checking-off 5 tracks, rip them... and do it again for the final 5 tracks. So, the next guy gets screwed out of having 5 tracks on AccurateRip. What's up with THAT??
Please tell me:
4) Where is the entry data kept for when I am doing my manual entries for track names, artist, year, etc., etc.? Somewhere there must be a text file where this is kept before it gets used for the Rip and encoding. Where is this text file? It might be TONS easier for me to enter this data into a file than to have to deal with click-click, wait, click again... move the curser, click again... type like crazy... repeat, etc., etc.
And finally:
5) Where is the data kept... again, I am expecting a text file somewhere... that gets submitted to AccurateRip?
Thank you kindly ALL,
Love2fly
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