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A Quick Note about why this is important, Broadcasters (RADIO,STREAM,TV) have to Report ISRC, UPC, Title, Artist, etc to the record companies for songs we play. The only source for ISRC is on the cd itself, and not all cd's are in the online databases (and the Freedb Submit menu item is still coming up grayed out when it shouldn't).
We rip about 100 to 150 New Releases per month, about 30% don't have meta in the databases so we use the CD-TEXT (from what we see less that 1% of the disc we get do Not have CD-TEXT, big change is the past few years).
So I've been seeing this Quirk show up from time to time when reading CD-Text in CD-Ripper (14 and 15.3) The First read (the automatic read that is done when no other meta is found) will sometimes mark the disc as a compilation and put the album artist as the track artist for track 1. Under the 14 series a re-read of the CD-TEXT (Meta,Retrieve From, CD-TEXT) does not change this. Under 15 a Re-read fixes the displayed track data (Album artist is correct, no longer flagged as Compilation). So I guess this count as a bug.
Two additional notes about how CD Ripper handles CD-TEXT,
1) it does the GENRE (pack type 0x87) WRONG. It treats it as a text record and it isn't. The first two bytes of data are the BINARY GENRE ID, and the Following 10 bytes are text (first record only, all following GENRE records are just text). This needs fixing.
2) Since you can't have NULL Fields in the TEXT Records (Pack Type 0x80) a Null is done as a single blank. It would be nice if you trimmed the fields to get rid of this. There are some companies that just can't do CD-TEXT correctly (the don't care about the content, Vanity Pressings mostly) and they don't put an Album Title or Album Artist in (just a blank in the field). When you have to go back and type in the name you have to Remember to clear the existing blank, it leads to errors.
A couple of last notes:
1) it would be nice if there was a way to edit the UPC (MCN). Not all discs provide MCN data, and it would make life easier to be able to enter it on the CD-Ripper screen than have to go back and fix all the files after ripping.
2) It would be a great short cut to be able to with one selection in the Meta,Retrieve From get the CD-TEXT, ISRC,and MCN fields. Sometimes the Database lookups return complete garbage for a disc and we have to use CLEAR METADATA to start over.
Block of example CD-TEXT data for cd that comes up as Compilation on first read.
(PT - PACK TYPE; E - EXTENSION; TR - TRACK NUMBER; Sq - SEQUENCE; U - UNICODE; b -BLOCK NUMBER; CP - CHARACTER POSITION; CRC not shown)
PT E TR Sq U b CP TEXT
80 0 00 00 0 0 00 - 53 68 6F 65 6C 61 63 65 20 52 69 6E
80 0 00 01 0 0 12 - 67 00 31 20 4F 6E 20 61 6E 64 20 4F
80 0 01 02 0 0 10 - 6E 00 32 20 45 63 68 6F 65 73 20 49
80 0 02 03 0 0 10 - 6E 20 54 68 65 20 44 61 72 6B 00 33
80 0 03 04 0 0 01 - 20 47 72 61 73 73 20 53 74 61 69 6E
80 0 03 05 0 0 13 - 65 64 20 56 6F 6C 6C 65 79 73 00 34
80 0 04 06 0 0 01 - 20 54 72 75 65 00 35 20 48 65 61 72
80 0 05 07 0 0 06 - 74 20 53 6C 6F 77 6C 79 20 44 69 65
80 0 05 08 0 0 15 - 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
81 0 00 09 0 0 00 - 54 69 6E 20 53 70 61 72 72 6F 77 00
81 0 01 10 0 0 00 - 09 00 09 00 09 00 09 00 09 00 00 00
8F 0 00 11 0 0 00 - 00 01 05 00 09 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
8F 0 01 12 0 0 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 0D 00 00 00
8F 0 02 13 0 0 00 - 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Pack type 0x87 (Genre Identification) contains 2 binary bytes followed by NUL-byte terminated text.
0x0000: Not Used. Sony prescribes this when no genre applies
0x0001: Not Defined
0x0002: Adult Contemporary
0x0003: Alternative Rock
0x0004: Childrens' Music
0x0005: Classical
0x0006: Contemporary Christian
0x0007: Country
0x0008: Dance
0x0009: Easy Listening
0x000a: Erotic
0x000b: Folk
0x000c: Gospel
0x000d: Hip Hop
0x000e: Jazz
0x000f: Latin
0x0010: Musical
0x0011: New Age
0x0012: Opera
0x0013: Operetta
0x0014: Pop Music
0x0015: Rap
0x0016: Reggae
0x0017: Rock Music
0x0018: Rhythm & Blues
0x0019: Sound Effects
0x001a: Spoken Word
0x001b: World Music
We rip about 100 to 150 New Releases per month, about 30% don't have meta in the databases so we use the CD-TEXT (from what we see less that 1% of the disc we get do Not have CD-TEXT, big change is the past few years).
So I've been seeing this Quirk show up from time to time when reading CD-Text in CD-Ripper (14 and 15.3) The First read (the automatic read that is done when no other meta is found) will sometimes mark the disc as a compilation and put the album artist as the track artist for track 1. Under the 14 series a re-read of the CD-TEXT (Meta,Retrieve From, CD-TEXT) does not change this. Under 15 a Re-read fixes the displayed track data (Album artist is correct, no longer flagged as Compilation). So I guess this count as a bug.
Two additional notes about how CD Ripper handles CD-TEXT,
1) it does the GENRE (pack type 0x87) WRONG. It treats it as a text record and it isn't. The first two bytes of data are the BINARY GENRE ID, and the Following 10 bytes are text (first record only, all following GENRE records are just text). This needs fixing.
2) Since you can't have NULL Fields in the TEXT Records (Pack Type 0x80) a Null is done as a single blank. It would be nice if you trimmed the fields to get rid of this. There are some companies that just can't do CD-TEXT correctly (the don't care about the content, Vanity Pressings mostly) and they don't put an Album Title or Album Artist in (just a blank in the field). When you have to go back and type in the name you have to Remember to clear the existing blank, it leads to errors.
A couple of last notes:
1) it would be nice if there was a way to edit the UPC (MCN). Not all discs provide MCN data, and it would make life easier to be able to enter it on the CD-Ripper screen than have to go back and fix all the files after ripping.
2) It would be a great short cut to be able to with one selection in the Meta,Retrieve From get the CD-TEXT, ISRC,and MCN fields. Sometimes the Database lookups return complete garbage for a disc and we have to use CLEAR METADATA to start over.
Block of example CD-TEXT data for cd that comes up as Compilation on first read.
(PT - PACK TYPE; E - EXTENSION; TR - TRACK NUMBER; Sq - SEQUENCE; U - UNICODE; b -BLOCK NUMBER; CP - CHARACTER POSITION; CRC not shown)
PT E TR Sq U b CP TEXT
80 0 00 00 0 0 00 - 53 68 6F 65 6C 61 63 65 20 52 69 6E
80 0 00 01 0 0 12 - 67 00 31 20 4F 6E 20 61 6E 64 20 4F
80 0 01 02 0 0 10 - 6E 00 32 20 45 63 68 6F 65 73 20 49
80 0 02 03 0 0 10 - 6E 20 54 68 65 20 44 61 72 6B 00 33
80 0 03 04 0 0 01 - 20 47 72 61 73 73 20 53 74 61 69 6E
80 0 03 05 0 0 13 - 65 64 20 56 6F 6C 6C 65 79 73 00 34
80 0 04 06 0 0 01 - 20 54 72 75 65 00 35 20 48 65 61 72
80 0 05 07 0 0 06 - 74 20 53 6C 6F 77 6C 79 20 44 69 65
80 0 05 08 0 0 15 - 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
81 0 00 09 0 0 00 - 54 69 6E 20 53 70 61 72 72 6F 77 00
81 0 01 10 0 0 00 - 09 00 09 00 09 00 09 00 09 00 00 00
8F 0 00 11 0 0 00 - 00 01 05 00 09 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
8F 0 01 12 0 0 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 0D 00 00 00
8F 0 02 13 0 0 00 - 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Pack type 0x87 (Genre Identification) contains 2 binary bytes followed by NUL-byte terminated text.
0x0000: Not Used. Sony prescribes this when no genre applies
0x0001: Not Defined
0x0002: Adult Contemporary
0x0003: Alternative Rock
0x0004: Childrens' Music
0x0005: Classical
0x0006: Contemporary Christian
0x0007: Country
0x0008: Dance
0x0009: Easy Listening
0x000a: Erotic
0x000b: Folk
0x000c: Gospel
0x000d: Hip Hop
0x000e: Jazz
0x000f: Latin
0x0010: Musical
0x0011: New Age
0x0012: Opera
0x0013: Operetta
0x0014: Pop Music
0x0015: Rap
0x0016: Reggae
0x0017: Rock Music
0x0018: Rhythm & Blues
0x0019: Sound Effects
0x001a: Spoken Word
0x001b: World Music
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