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| Thread ID: 47494 | 2004-07-28 03:59:00 | How to access CDDB info for songs on harddrive? | Greg S (201) | Press F1 |
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| 255965 | 2004-07-28 03:59:00 | Hi. I have a bunch of songs on my drive that are all kinda named like "song 01 Track #" etc. Is there any way to access a remote database to rename them appropriately, similar to the way that rip programmes do such as CDex, but from my hard drive? I can call in the info while ripping in MediaPlayer or CDex, but it's the previously ripped music I would like to auto rename. I ask cos there's a few hundred un-named tracks, and man, what a drag to do them all manually. Thx! |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 255966 | 2004-07-28 04:10:00 | Tag and rename,used it myself to rename a couple thousand mp3's that were recovered from a corrupt harddrive. Worked far better then i expected in renaming a good 80 percent of the tracks. www.softdepia.com |
metla (154) | ||
| 255967 | 2004-07-28 04:28:00 | Doesn't CDDB and similar databases identify ALBUMS by the length of tracks and the gaps. CDDB won't have a clue what you have lumped together on a hard drive or converted to MP3. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 255968 | 2004-07-28 04:30:00 | Indeed,CDDB won't be of any use,Tag and rename looks at the info embeeded in the file. Worth a crack. |
metla (154) | ||
| 255969 | 2004-07-28 04:40:00 | It is more likely that CDDB, etc, use the disk ID number of the CD. That's how the Windows cdplayer knows what disk has been loaded. So to get CDDB listings, you might need to actually borrow the CDs again. :D There are "probably" sites which will take an Album name and supply the track names. It's the sort of thing which is relatively easy, so someone will have done it. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 255970 | 2004-07-28 08:26:00 | No. CDDB does work on the assumption that album track numbers and lengths can be used to produce a (nearly) unique id number | PaulD (232) | ||
| 255971 | 2004-07-29 03:34:00 | Wow. Must be a wonderful timewaster. Have a look at cdplayer.ini in the Windows directiory for an easy way.:D But Microsoft's thing about hopw to get the ID from a CD says that some manufacturers don't use them.The format is XXXX-yyyyy where XXXX is a test string identifying the manufacturer, and yyyyy is a "unique number" (presumably unique to the manufacturer). Youi can often see the ID marked in the hub of the CD. | Graham L (2) | ||
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