General Chat #4

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

Originally posted by djrlewis[..]

Apart from registering, no

Mine gets the artwork automatically (did it with Nina Simone Best of yesterday)

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan:[..]

ok no worries

i'll have to register later on

Originally posted by djrlewis[..]

They'll take a card number I think, so best have one prepared. But no money obviousy, until you start buying U2 videos etc....

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan:[..]

won't be byeing any u2 videos as i downloaded them all from youtube