When one rips a CD and the computer automatically adds the artist/album, etc, where does that information come from?
I ask because I jst ripped an audiobook on history, but instead of artist/album I got a series of mispelled swear words and racial slurs for 'album' and 'artist' in the tags.
Very odd.
Hehe, that is funny. There is a data base that it gets the info from, I forget the address it looks it up from (no there might very well be multiple places filling this same function). It finds the album info by comparing track lengths, I believe (though it probably uses more than just this one method). This feature usually doesn't work very well with audiobooks, since they usually have uniform track lengths, unlike music cd where every track is a different length. At least, I have never had any luck using it with audiobooks, though I have never come up with as interesting results as just have. Someone with too much time on their hands was probably just goofing around and submitted these mispelled racial slurs as an album, and by chance your audiobook's information just happened to match pretty closely to what was submitted.
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I once had a disc I burned myself show up in the data base later as the soundtrack for Star Trek III. Sure enough, I checked online and my collection had the same number of tracks with the same length as the STIII soundtrack.
I use a program called AudioShell to adjust the names album information of my mp3 tags. It works great.
TheBoost said:
When one rips a CD and the computer automatically adds the artist/album, etc, where does that information come from?
I ask because I jst ripped an audiobook on history, but instead of artist/album I got a series of mispelled swear words and racial slurs for 'album' and 'artist' in the tags.
Very odd.
That metadata is called an ID3 tag. Most ripping software contacts the Gracenote database for the information, a huge database that uses calculations based on track length, name length, number of tracks, etc. There are a few other databases, but Gracenote is the largest, by far.
The database builds itself as people rip CDs. Apple uses it for iTunes, so it's receiving data constantly. Like the others stated, someone with a little too much time on their hands altered a file that was similar in length & time, posted the data, and your app grabbed it. I've had a couple of similar instances before. I've also submitted a correction to Gracenote before. There was a song title misspelled on an CD I had, so I corrected my personal ID3 tag before I submitted it to the database.
You can edit your ID3 tags with most programs, or download a third-party program that can do it. There are several.
I like Mp3Tag for mass editing. Especially for Audiobooks.
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