- You've been feeding CDs into iTunes and ripping them.
- As they were being ripped, you were going through "Recently Added" and fix up the ones that have missing or bogus ID3 data.
- Now you want to be a nice guy and submit your changes back to CDDB.
- Nope. Can't get there from here.
As far as I can tell, the only way to make "Submit CD Track Names" work is to do the editing in the pseudo-playlist window that appears when the CD is inserted. If you've edited the metadata in any other window, there's no way to get those edits back into the "CD" window. This also means that you have to do all your editing before letting iTunes rip anything, or else (again) you have to do it twice.
bodyfour: I typed in all the info for your DG mix, but oh well. There's no fuckin' way I'm gonna do that a second time.
I guess maybe this could be repaired with Applescript, but I'd rather eat lint.
the lint would prolly give you badly needed fiber too :-p
That's odd... I typed in all the info on my mix CD and submitted them on Sunday night. (Actually I did all of them but David's — I wasn't sure if he wanted to keep the identity of his hidden track secret or not) So it should have been in the CDDB database already.
Well, it isn't. Ed's isn't in there either. Also whoever entered Mollie's, Merrick's and David's was a dumbass and listed the dj as the artist, and stuck the actual artist in with the title.
I also enjoy the "Look out! Here come's an S!" use of the apostrophe on Mollie's CD (both the printed version and the CDDB data).
Shit. I guess that's a half-hour of cutting-and-pasting that I'll never get back. Is "submit CD track names" just a NOP on iTunes or something?
I specifically did them myself to avoid the problem of people entering the data all wrong.
I wonder how many of the other CDs I've submitted info for that just went into the bit bucket?
Next time you guys ought to just include a data track that already has MP3s pre-munged with ID3 and album art and whatnot.
Isn't there some CD-Text option with audio CDs? k3b certainly offers to write it out. Does anything actually _use_ this?
i had a rio mp3/cd player that read CD text once.
it died after about a month.
i've never seen any product since that reads CD text. that includes all software i've seen. except maybe one sony minidisc program years ago which never worked anyway.
Rivendell claims that it's ripper supports it - http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
I've not bothered testing this, as the list of dependencies turned me off.
EAC can read and write them, but nothing else I've come across does.
Yes, but (like everything about Red Book Audio) it's completely magical.
The master copies of my DG anniversary CDs both this year and last had full CD-Text info. Neither time did this data survive the duplication process.
Also iTunes doesn't read CD-Text anyway.
I've only seen one piece of software, ever, that did.
However, the last 4 car stereos I've had all displayed the CD-Text.
The Alpine head unit in my car supports it quite well. I discovered this when I made Nero Burning ROM CDs and it would automatically fill in the track names and artist from the mp3 info.
Why'd you add them with the DJ's name as the Artist, though? They didn't write the songs, and it screwed up my metadata. You actually did original work on one of the five CD's, and deserve credit, but the other CDs are just copies of tracks.
Ah well. I fixed it.
> Why'd you add them with the DJ's name as the Artist, though?
Are you having reading comprehension problems today, John? The entire point of this discussion is that the (correct) data I pain-stakingly entered on Sunday did not stick in the database. The (incorrect) data which you see in CDDB was entered later by persons unknown.
When I entered the data the first time all the artists were listed correctly.
No, I read just fine. Jwz said the same thing:
http://jwz.livejournal.com/612101.html?thread=11537925#t11537925
Did you enter these correctly into iTunes and the CDDB upload got munged, or was it munged prior to your upload? If you can determine what you did, I know people on the iTunes team who might be able to file a bug and fix this.
It seems that some data that you wrote stuck in CDDB just fine. The question is, was it destroyed during the upload?
> Did you enter these correctly into iTunes and the CDDB upload got munged, or was it munged prior to your upload?
ARG!!! Ok, once more real slow like.
The actions I took on Sunday night:
The state of the DB observed on Wednesday:
My theory of what happened:
Your theory:
Do you see yet why I don't think you've been reading very closely?
BTW, I re-submitted the track listing for my CD. Could you check if it shows up now?
Nyet. I put the disc in and did Advanced / Get CD Track Names and got the "This CD was not found in the CDDB database" dialog. iTunes 6.0.4 (3).
Well, screw it. That's the last time I bother submitting track names.
By CDDB, do you mean FreeDB or the Gracenote scumbags?
iTunes only speaks to the Gracenote scumbags.
Given that Gracenote costs money, and its database is shit compared to FreeDB, I find its popularity really hard to understand.
They were first, what with stealing everyone else's hard work and all, so they have the advantage.
Come on, their popularity is easy to understand: they have a marketing staff explaining, cajoling, paying and occasionally threatening people to use them; and FreeDB has a cascade of attention-deficit teenagers.
I really like MP3Rage for editing tags. Yes, it costs money and yes, it uses the evil gracenote, however it also fucking works.
iTunes is effectively free. What's that I heard someone say once about the usefulness of free software?
musicbrainz.