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Question

Copying old CD's and capturing the track Name and artist

Jul 13, 2017 8:18AM PDT

Like most of you probably have, I have a lot of old music CD's (and some not so old) that I want to copy to my computer. However, whenever I load the disk, no matter what program that I uses, all that shows up on my player is track 1, 2, 3 etc and no information as to the song itself.

I'm not wedded to any one player system - ie I-tunes, I just want to be able to create a play list based on the music that I have already bought.

So my question is, is there an simple way to force the song and artist info to transfer?

Thanks in advance.

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depends on how it's on the CD
Jul 13, 2017 8:55AM PDT

Could be meta-data in the file, or separate from the file. Your player may also contribute to you not seeing the data if it won't access it from the file itself. Many players have their own method or program for adding all that information and don't access it from the file, or wherever on the CD because of that. There's a number of reasons it could be.

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Re: CD
Jul 13, 2017 9:24AM PDT

That's exactly as it should be. That's how an audio CD works. I just put in one and it shows Track01.cda to Track14.cda (cda meaning cd audio). Those are files of 1 kB without any music. The music is in a part of the disc Windows Explorer doesn't see.

Now use iTunes to rip it to .mp3 or .wav format and let it use its database to find the name of album, artist and tracks.
Other programs (like cdex) might work also. The worst that can happen is that it makes files like track1.mp3 etc. Then use your favorite file manager to rename them and put them in a clearly named folder.

Post was last edited on July 13, 2017 1:21 PM PDT