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I bought a CD set of 10 Discs. None of the tracks have titles ore metadata other than track #. Does anyone know of software that can fetch that metadata from Gracenote?
Name of this was Hit Festival Bluegrass.
Thanks for any help...
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It seems that the databases that are out there will not have the metadata until someone that has the box set fills in the data by hand and uploads it.
Since this is not a very mainstream set it, hell may be locked in ice before it is ever uploaded to the database sites.
Does that mean you or anyone else can upload deliberately bogus metadata? That could really screw everyone over. ;-)
"Does that mean you or anyone else can upload deliberately bogus metadata? That could really screw everyone over. ;-)"
You are correct. There is no authorization process for databases that I am familiar with. Since my musical tastes are somewhat eclectic, esoteric and/or elitist, I find that many of the disks that I rip are not in any databases. So I put the metadata in myself. If your tastes happen to align, then you had better trust me. :-)
One of the advantages of downloads are that they come complete with metadata. One of the disadvantages is that this metadata often has errors, even though (presumably) it comes from an "authoritative" source.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
But don't most all CD's also have embedded metadata for each track?
As far as I know they do. In maybe 2500 CD rips I have never had one that didn't have complete basic metadata (artist, album, song title) whether I used iTunes, MAX, XLD or dbPoweramp
No, there is no embedded metadata on CDs. The format allows for auxiliary text, but this was never (or maybe seldom) implemented. The disks do contain an embedded code on each track that is used for radio station royalty collection, called the ISRC code. However, these are not used as keys to the metadata databases. Instead, the databases work off of the number of tracks and the length of each track (in units of frames, each frame is 1/75 of a second).
Are there any more useless factoids that I should disgorge? :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Maybe some of our libraries are thus corrupted. Check yours and report back!!
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I've had good luck with the tagging options within foobar2000. Also if you rip using dbpoweramp, it will add the metadata to the tags in nearly all cases. If the CDs are non-commercial compilations you may have more difficulty.
let us know how this turns out
Kerkula
dbpoweramp, will look into that, thanks
Your original post doesn't specify an OS. From your other replies I gather you are on a Mac. dbpoweramp is also a windows program but it could work with a windows partition on a Mac. I want to believe there's a simpler solution out there.
best,
Kerkula
I think you are right about a solution...Just hoping to find it..
If it has to be Gracenotes you might try iTunes
WMP is an alternative (AMG)
Maybe MP3tag can solve this as well
The Well Tempered Computer
Itunes will not fetch it unless you bought it thru them...
Itunes will not fetch it unless you bought it thru them...
That has not been my experience. I've bought several CDs from Amazon and iTunes will go out and grab the album art. However, you do need to be logged into iTunes. Not sure about the other meta data.
have an account and when I try to grab album/song titles it tells me I cannot since I did not purchase said albums from Itunes...
What about album art?
and was ready to insert it into each CD as I ripped them. It is the 10CDs and 200 songs by all the Bluegrass greats from the past that I do not wish to sit down and type all the data in for.
I don't know what to tell ya. It's possible that every CD that I ever bought already had it's meta data when I ripped it, but I know for fact that they did not have album art yet iTunes always retrieved it for me. And the CDs were obviously not bought thru iTunes.
all had metadata except for a handful of boots. I always Google the Artist's name and CD Art to find the highest rez art I can find. Lots of it is 1200X1200 or 1000X1000. I get lots from the link below which usually has a few resolutions to pick from.
Or I snatch it from Amazon.....Itunes has low rez art...
I hope you get your metadata taken care of. All those tracks will be a royal hassle to input manually.
Thanks for the link to the album art. I'm a bit lazy so if iTunes doesn't grab it, I've been snatching a medium res version from Amazon.
thanks for input...
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