General Chat #4

Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

The BBC site is great for Olympic coverage as well as other stuff.

15 more CDs to go - and now I have auto-track retrieval, meaning I don't have to fill them out!

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan[..]

hi Drew

i see your still doing your CDs

Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

But the automated track grabber is brilliant and helps a lot.

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan[..]

do you have one of these, and what is it exacty

Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

In Foobar2000, which I use for all my ripping stuff, it's a small software plug-in which identifies the ID of your CD. For example, I'm ripping War Remastered now (single disc), and the ID embedded into the disc is passed through to a company called FreeDB, the program returns that data and a whole lot of other possible matches and then adds them in - if it has them.

iTunes can do a similar thing, but only for iTunes-ripped CDs and files - and Windows Media Player is pretty poor at it - it doesn't even identify classical stuff properly.

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan[..]

ok thanks

my itunes doe's that

Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]

Last time I used iTunes every single song came out corrupted from brand-new CDs. But it gives you great artwork and excellent quality too, I'll give it that much.

Have you tried Foobar before?

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan[..]

my itunes dose'nt give me album art

no i'v never used foobar before

Originally posted by djrlewis[..]

If it's a standard CD available on the iTunes Store, it should.

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan:[..]

do i need to register on the itunes store?

Originally posted by djrlewis[..]

Not sure.

I am.

It uses Gracenote - does it get the track names automatically if you load a CD?

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan:[..]

yes

any ideas