I am looking for a MP3 ripper that can automatically find the names of
the songs that it is ripping. Currently, all I can see is Track# 1,
Track #2... I will have to manually enter the song names. This is
especially difficult if the song names are in foreign language such as
Chinese or Japanese; I will have to translate it into funny English
names -- a lot of effort and the result is not good. What's the best
MP3 ripper that can deal with this issue?

My friend has a Apple laptop that runs iTune and I can see that it can
automatically find the song names for 99% of the song English or
non-English. Can I find a similar product for PC platform?

How do they find the song name anyway? Does the song name already
encoded in the CD itself? Do they look up a huge album database to look
for the song name given the album ID or something?

Thanks.

Jay Chan

I use Cdex (open source). It can do automatic db lookups.

I believe I am also using cdex. I may not have set it up correctly;
therefore, it doesn't do the db lookup. I will go back home and try
again.

Thanks.

Jay Chan

On 3/28/2005 11:29 AM, wrote:
I am looking for a MP3 ripper that can automatically find the names of
the songs that it is ripping. Currently, all I can see is Track# 1,
Track #2... I will have to manually enter the song names. This is
especially difficult if the song names are in foreign language such as
Chinese or Japanese; I will have to translate it into funny English
names -- a lot of effort and the result is not good. What's the best
MP3 ripper that can deal with this issue?

My friend has a Apple laptop that runs iTune and I can see that it can
automatically find the song names for 99% of the song English or
non-English. Can I find a similar product for PC platform?

How do they find the song name anyway? Does the song name already
encoded in the CD itself? Do they look up a huge album database to look
for the song name given the album ID or something?

Thanks.


I use Cdex (open source). It can do automatic db lookups.

How do they find the song name anyway? Does the song name already
encoded in the CD itself? Do they look up a huge album database to look
for the song name given the album ID or something?


No, the song title is not on the CD. CDEx and like mp3 software look up
artist, title, song information from Internet databases.

In article , Dan wrote:
How do they find the song name anyway? Does the song name already
encoded in the CD itself? Do they look up a huge album database to look
for the song name given the album ID or something?


No, the song title is not on the CD.

.... in most cases. There are a few (commercial CDs manufactured by
Sony, and some homebrew CD-R discs) which do include the CD-Info
information in the table-of-contents.

I have no idea whether there are any CD rippers which will extract and
use the CD-Info data.

CDEx and like mp3 software look up
artist, title, song information from Internet databases.

Yup, most do.

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I have no idea whether there are any CD rippers which will extract and
use the CD-Info data.

Sure, Audiograbber does. Probably other too.

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I use Cdex (open source). It can do automatic db lookups.

I believe I am also using cdex. I may not have set it up correctly;
therefore, it doesn't do the db lookup. I will go back home and try
again.

Click on "Options", then "Settings", then click the tab labeled "Remote
CDDB" and check the box labeled "Auto Connect to Remote CDDB" near the
bottom.

Kendall



Thanks.

Jay Chan

No, the song title is not on the CD. CDEx and like mp3 software look
up
artist, title, song information from Internet databases.

Thanks. This makes sense. This explains the reason why some of my very
old CDs also show up with the right song titles.

Jay Chan

Click on "Options", then "Settings", then click the tab labeled
"Remote
CDDB" and check the box labeled "Auto Connect to Remote CDDB" near
the
bottom.

Yes, I have found it in CDex. Unfortunately, I cannot use it to get
song titles of East-Asian songs. Although I came across some messages
saying that CDex 1.6.x can handle Unicode and can support East-Asian
songs, I cannot find that version. The only version that I can find is
1.5.1. Oh well...

Now, I am using iTunes from Apple. It can by default get song titles
from web site automatically and it also can get East-Asian song titles.
I also like its "Rating" feature.

Jay Chan