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SO I'm ripping my collection of Japanese reissues of jazz albums and sitting here AMAZED that windows media recognizes each track and even pulls up the right cover art.

How does it do that?

Obviously there's an online archive somewhere but who maintains it? Does every CD have a code that identifies it? Even CDs from before the internet, even Chinese pirate CDs get recognized! How much is in this archive? How deep does it go? Would it know who's on an album of Nigerian pop or Peruvian flute music?

Anyone know?

It is that deep.
Moody Blues were ahead of their time.

First voice: "I think.. I think I am.. therefore I am... I think. "

Second voice: "Of course you are my bright little star. I've miles of files, pretty files of your forefathers fruit and now to suit our great computer, your magnetic ink! "

First voice: "I'm more than that, I know I am, at least I think I must be."

Third Voice; "There you go man! Keep as cool as you can! Face piles of trials with smiles. It riles them that you perceive the web they weave and keep on thinking free."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB

malfred wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB

Thank you sir!

None of my searches found that!

I think I knew a little about it so I used the terms:

CD
track
lengths

Another way I could have found it would have been

CD
database

But that second search pulls up Gracenote first, which might have been overlooked.

iTunes on the Mac uses Gracenote.

The database is huge. There isn't much they miss.

media player uses an elaborate system of gremlins

Kilkrazy wrote:iTunes on the Mac uses Gracenote.

The database is huge. There isn't much they miss.

On my laptop, when I upload a CD it says "Accessing CDDB"

CDDB is the old name for Gracenote.


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