I'm guessing, but maybe there's a setting on your home system that doesn't allow Gracenote to access your computer.
I have hundreds and hundreds of bootlegs and independent recordings, and it's hit or miss for me. Sometimes everything automatically populates, sometimes I'll get a prompt asking me if I want to allow Gracenote to access my system and try to find the track names, and sometimes I just get Track01, etc.
Sometimes it'll find a couple of different CD names in the data base and ask me which one I want it to use, and that always worries me because I don't want to pick the wrong one and forever have misnamed tracks...
I'm always thrilled -- and surprised -- when the track names magically appear, but I've never looked into it more deeply...
-- Sol
From: "bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT ish: CD Metadata Magic Source?
Does this mean that by manually adding the info on my home system it magically sent that data to the grace note data base so everyone gets the info I entered? That seems unlikely given I wouldn't think they would not want just anyone to add the to the database. It seems more likely that perhaps my internet was down when I first loaded the disk.
So now I'm curious how this gracenote database gets populated with information? Given my CD seems to be of an independent nature put out by the band itself would a small band be able to access the gracenote database to enter their own info? I am under the impression that there is a data file on music CD that contains track info etc... If that is the case maybe it's just iTunes accessing that data but it doesn't explain why I didn't get it on my home system.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <damon@...> wrote :
No John, just your business name is crazy. ;)
I've dealt with the same issues when attempting to populate album covers after importing a music CD into iTunes. It's hit or miss in my experience. Too bad iTunes doesn't have an MCSTATE or SITE SETTINGS to delete and get things moving again.
Damon Claussen
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On Dec 11, 2018, at 1:41 PM, John Moore bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:I got a CD of a relatively obscure band in LA at their show. When I put the CD in mac pro mid 2012 OS 10.12.6 the CD imported into iTunes with no track names. I fiddled around in iTunes and got to the CD info window where I was able to manually add Artist name, Track Names and Album name.. I deleted my first import with generic track 01 etc... and no info. I imported the manually named CD and all is well at home.Today at work I loaded the CD into my old 2009 macbookpro OS 10.7.X To my surprise in iTunes the CD showed all the proper info. I thought maybe because it knew my library from home it got the info that way. I then took the CD to another station that I don't work on. We loaded the disc to the desktop and it said track 1 etc... for file names. When iTunes was launched the finder folder then changed to show the correct names of the tracks and iTunes new all the info.Now I'm wondering why on my home computer the CD info didn't appear the first time. A little googling and according to Apple support the CD info comes from the internet. There is mention of a gracenote database. So this leaves me wondering why I got no info the first time on the home mac. Perhaps my internet was down at the time I first loaded the CD or did my manually entering the data somehow back feed into the internet database? At first I thought it might be related to me being logged into my apple account but when I went to the second computer at work launching iTunes, which wasn't logged into my account, populate iTunes and even the finder with the correct info.Am I crazy? Who is controlling this under the hood flow of music metadata? Curious how this all works.John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@...
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