Need some help for this very odd problem

[Sunfist]

I have never had this happen before and I'd like any advise I can get as to the cause and possible cure. I recently bought a used CD and it plays perfectly. Here is the problem. When I put it in my computer drive to RIP it to my HDD the information as to the artist and track titles are completely wrong, not even close. It is a blues record by Memphis Minnie and it shows up in the ripper as a Jazz album by Ella Fitzgerald, plus all the track titles appear to be jazz titles as well. I tried removing it from the drive and reinserting it, same results. Tried the refresh button and same results. Why would the software get this so wrong and is there a way to maybe fix it? This is a 2cd set and it gets the information wrong with either disc. It appears to be very confused for some reason.

[garym]

Re: Need some help for this very odd problem

I have never had this happen before and I'd like any advise I can get as to the cause and possible cure. I recently bought a used CD and it plays perfectly. Here is the problem. When I put it in my computer drive to RIP it to my HDD the information as to the artist and track titles are completely wrong, not even close. It is a blues record by Memphis Minnie and it shows up in the ripper as a Jazz album by Ella Fitzgerald, plus all the track titles appear to be jazz titles as well. I tried removing it from the drive and reinserting it, same results. Tried the refresh button and same results. Why would the software get this so wrong and is there a way to maybe fix it? This is a 2cd set and it gets the information wrong with either disc. It appears to be very confused for some reason.

If it was me, I'd just manually edit the information to make it correct..

EDIT: I've ripped maybe 9,000 CDs and every so often (10 or 12 times) something like this has happened.

[Spoon]

Re: Need some help for this very odd problem

Press the Red meta data button on tool bar and see if any of the other providers has it correct.

[Dat Ei]

Re: Need some help for this very odd problem

Hey Sunfist,

I think you didn't get it how dBpa and other tools like this work. The program calculates a checksum based on the TOC (table of content) of the CD. Then the program searches with this checksum in one or in case of dBpa several online databases to retrieve the metadata. Most of the time there will be a hit and sometimes a miss (especially for new releases or seldom CDs). But in very rar cases the checksum itself is not unique for a CD, so that you will get the metadata for a different CD or even for several CDs. So the artist or the genre doesn't matter at all for the search of metadata, even if it looks very strange from the point of view of the user, if a blues CD retrieves the metadata of a Jazz CD.


Dat Ei