Re: Ripping music cd's

On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:33, Damien Hull wrote:
> Greg Madden wrote:
> > I have been ripping my cd collection onto a harddrive. What i have
> > discovered is Sound Juicer (gnome) looks up the album on the
> > internet, Musicbrainz, to fill in the track and artist info. A couple
> > of things, this only works, getting the info online, part of the
> > time, other wise I get no album or artist/track info . This begs the
> > question why these ripping/encoding programs don't read the info
> > directly from the cd, having to have an internet conection, or a
> > server thats not busy seems not the best solution.
> >
> > Am I missing something in this process?
> >
> > TIA
>
> At least some of the information should be on the CD. Things like song
> title. The other information may not be. There doesn't seem to be a
> standard.
>
> The information on the net is hit or miss. There's a lot of stuff that
> isn't there. If your music is all top 40 hits then you should have no
> trouble getting cover art and song info.

Thanks for the reply. I can do a search at musicbrainz for the cd I am
ripping and it has been registered. I just don't get the info when
using , grip, or sound juicer.

Is there a log I could look at to see see whats up?

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Greg Madden
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