CD not in AccurateRip-strange track titles

[bob_m]

Hello:

I tried to rip a test tone CD which is included with a the Dayton Omnimic product. Interestingly, DBpoweramp believes the CD is from David Bowie. The CD is not in AccurateRip, why would it think this? I figured it would just have blanks for the title and track names?
Thanks Bob

[Spoon]

Re: CD not in AccurateRip-strange track titles

CDs are identified by their track lengths, this test tone disc, must have tracks exactly the same length as a david bowie cd.

[Porcus]

Re: CD not in AccurateRip-strange track titles

I tried to rip a test tone CD which is included with a the Dayton Omnimic product. Interestingly, DBpoweramp believes the CD is from David Bowie. The CD is not in AccurateRip, why would it think this? I figured it would just have blanks for the title and track names?

The AccurateRip database and the metadata providers' databases are different. They also differ in how they identify albums.

AccurateRip identifies no metadata, only the CD by its table of contents (that is, track lengths) -- calculated with a fairly high precision to avoid such collisions.
The metadata providers use rougher means of identifiying the CD. Rougher, in the sense that two CDs with near-identical tables of contents, will more often be identified as identical.

So in this case, the metadata provider cannot tell your CD from a David Bowie one. AccurateRip can, because it uses a finer identification algorithm.

[bob_m]

Re: CD not in AccurateRip-strange track titles

The AccurateRip database and the metadata providers' databases are different. They also differ in how they identify albums.

AccurateRip identifies no metadata, only the CD by its table of contents (that is, track lengths) -- calculated with a fairly high precision to avoid such collisions.
The metadata providers use rougher means of identifiying the CD. Rougher, in the sense that two CDs with near-identical tables of contents, will more often be identified as identical.

So in this case, the metadata provider cannot tell your CD from a David Bowie one. AccurateRip can, because it uses a finer identification algorithm.

thanks you for the explanation. Bob