Labeling each song

[brbpab94]

Is there a faster way to label each song?Every time I convert from a cd it tells me the track numbers and not the artist or the name of the songs.What steps am I missing?

[xoas]

Re: Labeling each song

The step you are missing is connecting to the Freedb database. Connect to the internet at the outset of each rip, with your cd inserted and the blank tracks listed, click on the Freedb button. This should result in details about artist and track, song titles, and so forth. If you have a compilation cd you may want to click on the compilation button (otherwise artist will be described as "various artists".
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

[ChristinaS]

Re: Labeling each song

The step you are missing is connecting to the Freedb database. Connect to the internet at the outset of each rip, with your cd inserted and the blank tracks listed, click on the Freedb button. This should result in details about artist and track, song titles, and so forth. If you have a compilation cd you may want to click on the compilation button (otherwise artist will be described as "various artists".
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

Oh, this may work well with most commercially purchased CD's or pblished artists.

It may not work well with many Indie produced CD's and definitely not with most unpublished artists, because they specifically have to update that web database for each released track (in every version). Not everything is out there.

The trouble is that when this doesn't work, you pick up some other artist's name and track information, based on some peculiar match between the contents of the actual audio track and what's in the web database. That I should think is lots worse than not finding any information on it. I have experiencd this with at least one of my daughter's songs from a self-produced cd. Lo and behold some unknown and definitely unrelated rapper's specifics popped out as the information on one of the songs! too funny! :smile2:

[xoas]

Re: Labeling each song

It may not work well with many Indie produced CD's and definitely not with most unpublished artists, because they specifically have to update that web database for each released track (in every version). Not everything is out there.

Yes there are cases where Freedb will not have the correct information. In those cases you do still have the option of correcting the errant information and submitting it to Freedb for other users. And ChristinaS. is correct to remind us that Freedb information may not always be correct and should be checked and corrected if necessary before ripping (although you can also edit the tag afterwards).
And I agree that incorrect information is very annoying although I am not sure that it is more annoying than no information at all given the probabilities of information being wrong and the relative headache of always having to enter information manually.
Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen