U/S Ripping - Incorrect Album Identification

Whenever this has happened to me I've resorted to manually retagging through n-serve or on the PC using the Naim DTC.

Assuming these are CD rips, editing on N-Serve (iPhone or Mac version) is straightforward. You could also try repeating the CDDB lookup on N-Serve.

I agree with Clive and Chris's suggestions. My own experience is that occasionally an album just isn't recognised, even though it rips OK and even though a web search of the AMG database shows it is there.  This even happened with one disc of a double album but not the other.

I use n-serve for IOS in these cases and it is a bit tedious if you have a classical album with 20 tracks each with a long title of musical jargon, but works very well.

best

David

Unfortunately, the re-tagging often leaves some credits incorrect.
For example, I have a CD single "Stoned in Love" by "Chicane featuring Tom Jones".

My HDX wrongly identified it as a single by "Seal" and although I've manually edited as much as I can, some fields are not editable so the vocals are still attributed to Seal and Production by Seal and release date 1996.

Well, it's definitely Tom Jones on vocals and it was released in 2006.
I cannot change those tags.

Tagging is notoriously fraught with problems, whether from ripped CDs or downloads, with incomplete information, recording and writing artists mixed up, or some first name first and others last name first, and different genres assigned to identical music, etc - and that is universal, nothing to do with the U/S. my collection, comprising a mixture of ripped CDs, ripped LPs and downloaded files is such a mess that I simply can't be bothered to try to find the huge amount of time it would take to sort out, even with batch processing. Instead I simply store my music in a nested folder structure, much like any other computer file storage, or fo that matter how I used to store physical media, and shops and libraries likewise.

In my case I store as Genre\Artist (recording artist, band etc for non-classical, and composer for classical)\album name (modified to show version or resolution etc if more than one copy)\tracks with track number (2 digits if more than 9) inserted at front if not already included. I also store the album front cover as folder.jpg in the same place, together with any other album image or info files. For double or triple albums That I am likely to want to play right through, I put all the tracks into the one folder, after re-numbering if necessary to keep consecutive. Works a treat, browsing or searching never any problem. The only issues come if an album has matadata for track order that is different and read by the player, which is rare and therefore easily fixed by correcting whichver numbering is incorrect. I did that originally on a NAS with two different UPnP servers, then on Mac Mini with a different UPnP server, all read by ND5XS, and now reading with Audirvana - which hasn't yet had a folder structure facility added to its library, so involves a work around until it is implemented.