When Lookup fails......

Posted by: David O'Higgins on 15 January 2014

The arrival of my first granchild prompted me to buy the very reasonably priced  '100 Children's Favourites'. a 5CD collection of classic original songs. These bring me back both to my childrens' childhood and to my own growing years. But, when I went to rip them using the Unitiserve, no data could be found. Same result with dbpoweramp.

The prospect of typing it all does not attract!!  The collection was released in October 2013 according to Amazon.

Does anyone know the process by which data finds itself into these online databases, and whether there is any mechanism for requesting such gaps to be closed? 

 

Posted on: 15 January 2014 by Bananahead

Lot's of the databases are user submitted. I regularly send submissions to Freedb.

Posted on: 15 January 2014 by Dan43

Are the WAV files on the US but just with no metadata?

Posted on: 15 January 2014 by Dozey

Try editing the album title in n-serve. Save the edit. Then ask n-serve to look for online data (button at bottom of edit screen).

 

This sometimes works.

Posted on: 15 January 2014 by David O'Higgins

Well, the WAV files would be on the US, if I let them. But when I see that the metadata is not available, I abort the rip.

 

Thanks for the tip, Dozey. I'll try that with the first disc.

 

David

 

Posted on: 15 January 2014 by Dan43

Thats what I would do. I have had a couple of ripped CDs display no metadata but looked online via the edit and all was found, then I searched for the album art and that worked too.

 

This has worked on everything I have in the US/NAS/WAV 44.1/16 rips for any incorrect album artwork, wrongly labelled tracks/albums, all bloopers have been corrected, I have about 500+ cds on the NAS as WAV US rips, all 100% accurate now for their metadata.

 

Now the same for the hi-res downloads/Blu-Ray Audio & DVD-A rips at 24/96 and 24/192 albums and their metadata/artwork, which is proving a touch trickier.....

 

Dan43

Posted on: 18 January 2014 by Dozey

Any update David - did it work?

Posted on: 18 January 2014 by David O'Higgins

Unfortunately, no. But I'll keep trying!