# cd info

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 10-May-2006 18:17:25

Hey all. I'm not sure what is causing the problem here; a setting I need to fix, or a flaw in my cd drive? When listening to a cd or ripping one, my computer doesn't have the album info. It says something like, unknown artist, track one. It's a small annoyance. Is there something I can do? Thanks much!

## Post 2 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Thursday, 11-May-2006 0:28:24

well, if you use cd ex for example, you want to enable remote cd information retrieval. what program are you using exactly? It's not an issue with your drive.

## Post 3 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 11-May-2006 8:25:25

Hmmm, I actually have no idea. I rip with windows media, and I listen with either windows media or winamp. Lol, is that what you meant?

## Post 4 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Thursday, 11-May-2006 9:05:08

Hmm, first of, this is a purchased CD right, not a burnt one (if you listen to a cd that has been copied or written from a computer the cd info will not come up properly, only authentic CDs have that info as far as I know).
I don't like Windows Media for ripping CDs at lest, I use CD ex (cdex.n3.net I think but searching for cdex on Google will bring it up).
It's good for ripping. The only thing you have to do once you've installed it is to go into options, ctrl-tab to the ""remote options" or something like that and fill in a valid email address (does not even have to be your own). Then once you pop the cd in the program goes out and retrieves all track names etc. Then you press ctrl-a for selecting all tracks and f9 to convert them to mp3. I'd actually also find the ripping bit rate under "options" and set it from 128 to 160 or 192, 256 if you're really picky but 160 usually does it for me.
Cheers
-B

## Post 5 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 11-May-2006 15:16:45

Yes, they are regular CDs. Hmmm, never heard of that program, I'll have to scope it out. Sheesh, I don't get it. Neither winamp or windows media player will display the info. Someone suggested that maybe the nod32 or my windows firewall could be blocking it? I don't know! Irritating!

## Post 6 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Thursday, 11-May-2006 22:25:00

I doubt your windows firewall would be stopping that kind of request... It's worth checking the firewall settings just to be sure, although I've never came across that before... I agree with the previous cat, go for CD EX. It's simple to use and speech friendly. And I'd go with 192kbps. 128k has too much high frequency flutter for my ears at least.

## Post 7 by frequency (the music man) on Thursday, 11-May-2006 22:39:48

well if they are from mp3's that have been put on a cd, it won't work. There are little gaps that offset the time from the information stored in the online cd database. Now if another format was used like Vorbis for lossey, or FLAC for lossless then it should work.

## Post 8 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Friday, 12-May-2006 20:36:11

I just burned a cd with windows media and the same happened. Now there should be something that comes up asking if you want to submit info for the cd.
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