CD Identifiers and CDDBs: Why does wrong metadata sometimes get pulled from CDDBs?

[jrk-sc]

Hi All,

I understand the concept that to pull metadata from a CDDB, a short segment of each track is read to create a "unique" identifier for each CD. (If that is not conceptually correct, what is correct?)

Given that each CD has a dynamically created (allegedly unique)...

[alboue]

Hi,

I ripped my 400+ cds years ago to mp3 and I stored all the tags in a local cddb database.

I want now to rip them again to flac format, using the same cddb database. I found the way to configure dbpa to do so and for most of my cd's it's ok (I even succeded to convert...

[Martin0815]

Hi,

I miss some IMHO important features for filling ID3 tags from "CDDB" (or similar) queries:

1. Working parallel with a local CDDB, not exclusive online/local
2. Ability to save the CD information to a local CDDB and/or CDPLAYER.INI
3. To fill the cover picture from a different

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