Unknown Artist / Album

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cs2kplus

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Kings/Queens of all media:

Forgive me...

I am somewhat green about media players.

I ripped all my cd's (lots) at work.

I guess it''s in the corporate security (unchangable) that auto download for artist/Album info is disabled.:eek:

Therefore...I have ripped all files to disk with "Unknown artist..."

Now...i am aware that if I use a media player at home, I can now see the actual artists (not all)....since it is not disabled.

Long story short....is there a way to have the file update ON MY HARD DRIVE with the latest info (as opposed to inernally in a media library):confused:

CS
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Systems like CDDB work by analysing an entire disk, and uses information like track durations to get the right track names. It doesn't work for individual tracks.

Certain media players, like iTunes, add the information from CDDB, such as artist, album, track number etc, to the tracks themselves in the form of ID3 tags. Those tags should be intact when a file is transferred from one place to another, but due to the nature of the database, individual hard drive files can't be queried.
 
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "is there a way to have the file update ON MY HARD DRIVE with the latest info (as opposed to inernally in a media library)". Are you referring to the hard drive at work?

Somewhere local to where the track is being played you have to have the information available whether you call it a media library or whatever. You can for example, download the entire freedb database on your home pc and (if corporate rules allow) copy the database to your work pc. Use a player that can access a local freedb. A number of players can do that but can you install at work?

Starman*
 
Hard Drive

Starman,

Without complicated the issue. Let me see if I can simplify.

I will create a simplified, fictitious scenerio.

If I ripped a cd of songs and di NOT have access to the intenet, then on my hard drive, in the folder I saved to, you would see "unknown artist/..." . This is beacuse no connection to the internet was present, therefore, not information about the cd was download.

So...

If I now do open a connectio to the internet, open media player, add to playlist, then...I will see all the songs and artists. That is because it downloads the information, ONLY within the player (to be seen). However, on the hard drive, it still says "unkown".

If I had started with an internet connection from the beginning, and ripped the songs, I have proved that it will in fact write that directly to the hard drive...

Why do I care? because I would prefer the tiles be present if I use other methods to catolog the songs.

Its not really complicated...but it's sure enough hard to explain.

CS:D
 
Many thanks for the long explanation. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I don't see how you even get track names included in the mp3 or wav filename. If you convert cd tracks without database access, you have no artist, no album, no track title, no mp3 tags. So how are the track files labelled on the work pc? Default for Cd Grab is (typical) - Track01.mp3 or wav. Maybe your work setup allows track names to get through into the filename but not artist and album?

Can you give a typical filename for one of the tracks as-copied? eg Unknown Artist - Impossible.mp3

Databases require the cd ref# for ID which you don't get with track files as magicman noted.

Can't you put the freedb database on your work pc and re-copy the cds? I'm not sure what progs can copy using local db.

Starman*
 
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