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Old title: Windows Media Player giving wrong info....
I try to rip my music CDs to Windows Media Player but my recent new albums it gives me the wrong album info why is this? any clues.
Cheers
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It's possible that WMP incorrectly identifies a CD as another album. To fix this, look up the album info manually: right-click one of the tracks, select Find album info , search for the correct album, and follow the remaining steps of the wizard.
Tim De Baets
If you go to the All Music Guide database (which is used by WMP), and the information there is incorrect as well, you should be able to correct it there.
Also, if you make corrections through Find Album Info, that information might be used to correct the database in the future.
Kelly Hi...
If you use the settings shown in my Dec 6 post CD info will still appear, but it limits WMP from making changes.
Regarding your Gilmour album - you should be able to make the changes... I just tried this out myself (I haven't needed to do it for a while...) using a CD that was nothing to do with David G and the info held (as in the snip below) - not necessarily all the right info - just for e.g. purposes! - so it may be you are not using the best method. Get back if you'd like some pointers. - Ric.
(It's the wrong artwork but you can change that after ripping)
Same here. Wrong info.
I just tried to rip David Gilmour & Friends, on MOJO. It's a compilation. The problem is that WMP retrieves information for Crosseyed Heart by Keith Richards.
Searching for this David Gilmour album turns up nothing. It's not listed.
Manually editing the tracks doesn't stick, and while I can disable searching (as has been pointed out) doing so will also disable finding info for other albums. I'd rather not lose that functionality unless it gets unusable for most other albums as well.
So...WHY Keith Richards? Did the folks that put these out use the same UPC code? It was my understanding that song count and track length are used to determine which album was with. If that is true then am I to believe that this David Gilmour CD and the Keith Richards CD have exactly the same number of songs and each one just happens to be the exact same length and in the same order? While this is possible for rereleases and box set CDs I can't imagine that being the case here.
Also, I can delete the database and have to rebuild. Won't this pull down all the wrong info again, including all those albums I have manually fixed (assuming they haven't been already corrupted)?
On more thing. WMP rips to folders named for the artists and album titles. Manually changing info does nothing to move the files to the correct folders.
If you go to the All Music Guide database (which is used by WMP), and the information there is incorrect as well, you should be able to correct it there.
Also, if you make corrections through Find Album Info, that information might be used to correct the database in the future.
I have been doing that for years , nothing changes. the all media database has so many rubbish entries its a pain to use.
