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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, I noticed that you're ripping to FLAC. I assume that you're using WMP 12 on Windows 10, since support for ripping to FLAC was only added there? And even there, the FLAC support is flaky at best. Do you still experience the same issues if you rip to MP3 or WMA?
Hi Kelly - thanks for updating and clarifying... I'm a bit busy with other things this evening but I'll read through the points you have made. I do a fair amount of album creation myself for non-commercial applications (friends' music etc.) but I don't seem to have the issues you experience, so we'll compare notes later on - hopefully might be able to make things a bit more manageable. Regards, Ric.
Thanks for the tips.
I do believe you are missing my point. I know how to manually make changes. I've needed to do it regularly for albums I know are not in the database. I also know how to do what you suggest to prevent WMP from going out any updating info. The underlying problem is the WMP screwy decisions by default.
Which brings us to the underlying problem. Why does WMP insist on matching up an unknown album with what truly looks like a random choice? Why must I flip off the default actions to prevent WMP from overwriting manual edits made after the fact? I'd suggest WMP should flag manual edits and leave them be by default.
I used the David Gilmour CD as an example because I know it's not in the database, at least yet, and maybe never. It's a free CD that came with a magazine. I've had exactly the same problem with my own CDs, my own music, my own personal burned CDs. None of them are in the database, yet occasionally WMP will decide they are in the database and pull in some random info and art. Usually WMP will use "Unknown Artist" and go with it. I'm OK with that. It's actually correct.
Think of it this way. We CAN manually change the artist, song titles, art, and all that after a file is ripped, and we CAN change the defaults to WMP doesn't screw with out changes. Yet, the initial rip is still screwed. How?
This is the path to the fourth song ripped from the David Gilmour & Friends CD. See anything unusual?
E:\Kelly\Music\Keith Richards\Crosseyed Heart\04 Robbed Blind.flac
This song is actually "Here, There And Everywhere" by David & Joe Gilmour
No amount of manually editing of the info will fix the physical file location and filenames of these files. We will need to go do that for every file ripped, and then we'll need to get them moved over into the appropriately named folder, and if we are lucky WMP won't try to update the info displayed in WMP again.
This is just a bad experience, when it happen.
