CD Ripping w/XLD lacks metadata

Posted by: LD Haber on 26 May 2011

I hope you all might be able to help me with a problem I seem to have with my ripping of CD into FLACS on my Mac with XLD.

 

When I load the CD, iTunes shows the correct metadata.  Album, title, song etc etc.  XLD, however, cannot find the metadata in either of the two free databases it searches.

 

Its my understanding that if the metadata is not found in the cloud by XLD, it "takes" the metadata from iTunes and loads that.  But that is not happening although I can see iTunes has good metadata.  I have tried running XLS with the preference for automatic CDDB search on and off.

 

Is this a problem others are having? or has something just gone wrong my end and I'd really appreciate suggestions on how to fix this.  I am tired of typing the data in.

 

I am running the most current version of XLD and I'm on a Mac with 10.6.7, and yes, I have the same issue with Max.

 

TIA,

 

Larry

Posted on: 26 May 2011 by DavidDever

I gather that you have Internet access, right? (I know, silly question, but....)

 

It is possible that the disc (single) in question is too obscure–barring that, is there anything else unusual about your setup (firewall, etc.)?

 

As you're in the US, you can also e-mail me at

 

naiminfo@soundorg.com

Posted on: 26 May 2011 by LD Haber

Yes, I do/did have internet access and yes, the disc could be too obscure.  The thing is...that the database I "want" is the Gracenote CDDB.  Sony now owns it, as far as I understand, and charges a fee for access.  XLD being free can't pay the fee so what they do in XLD is, if the free CDDB does not have a metadata, XLD will take MD (not from Gracenote directly) but from iTunes since iTunes does access Gracenote.  Also, if you turn the preference off to automatically connect to the CDDB serve, XLD goes straight to iTunes for MD.

 

My preference for automatic connection to CDDB is off.  I have tested my XLD with a disc I had previously ripped in which XLD gave me the metadata.  And it did get me metadata, again.  So, I would infer it read the metadata from iTunes since it would only connect to the free CDDB if I asked it to, which I didn't.

 

I then asked XLD to get MD from the free CDDB and it did and was different from what iTune had and what XLD got from iTunes.  

 

Now why in the case of three staright new and probably obscure CDs, XLS did NOT take the metadata from iTunes, I don't know but eventually I will figure it out.

 

In the meantime, I just copied and pasted the MD.

 

Thanks for asking/helping

Posted on: 26 May 2011 by DavidDever
FreeDB is basically the same - neither is as good as AMG
Posted on: 26 May 2011 by Tog
Try scanning the ripped tracks in Picard Tog