Why are song titles incorrect or songs missing when ripping a CD?



Even now, with the spread of music streaming services, many users continue to use CD ripping software to digitize CDs that are not compatible with streaming or to digitize them in the highest possible quality format. However, when trying to rip a CD on a PC, mistakes in

the CDDB can cause the title of the song to not be registered correctly or entire songs to be missing. Programmer and photographer Abigail Payne explains the problems associated with ripping and CDDB.

Why Does My Ripped CD Have Messed Up Track Names? And Why Is One Track Missing? :: abi abi
https://www.akpain.net/blog/inside-a-cd/

Payne encountered several issues when ripping Finish Ticket 's album ' Echo Afternoon ' using the media player VLC .

Problem 1: The song title 'Raincloud' is registered as 'Rainclou s '
Problem 2: The playing time of 'Nothing Coming Soon' is registered as 4 minutes 26 seconds even though the actual playing time is 41 seconds.
Problem 3: The 12th track 'The Weight' is not registered



CD ripping software references an online music database (CDDB) to include information such as song title, duration, and composer in the ripped file. The problem with Payne's CD was caused by incorrect information in the open source music database

MusicBrainz .

First of all, the song title was wrong by one character because the person who registered the information for 'Echo Afternoon' on MusicBrainz made a mistake in typing just one character. Since anyone can edit information on MusicBrainz, Payne corrected the typo himself.



The second and third issues stemmed from the same mistake: Here's a photo of the back of the 'Echo Afternoon' album jacket, which lists 'Nothing Coming Soon' and 'Don't Need A Reason' as separate songs.



However, in the metadata embedded in the CD itself, 'Nothing Coming Soon' and 'Don't Need A Reason' were combined and treated as one piece of music data. 'Echo Afternoon' contains 12 songs, but because the two songs were combined, it was treated as an '11-song album' in the metadata.

FILE './06. Finish Ticket - Nothing Coming Soon.flac' WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE 'Don't Need A Reason'
ISRC USDPK2300133
INDEX 01 00:00:00



As a result of registering song information in MusicBrainz from the top down, the 12th song, 'The Weight,' was excluded from the database. Payne modified the MusicBrainz data to treat 'Nothing Coming Soon' and 'Don't Need A Reason' as one song.



With these two corrections, Payne was able to create an album with all 12 songs without any typos.



in Software, Posted by log1o_hf