If you don't want your librarian to report what books you read, you might not want Gracenote selling the data about what you listen to.Īs I posted earlier, if you still have the rips you did with Winamp, you can easily, with a couple of clicks per rip, copy the tags from the old rips to your new dBpa rips using the program mp3tag. And frankly, I'd be a little concerned about using Gracenote too much, if you read their webpages. Unfortunately, Gracenote, owned by the audience measuring company Neilsen, bought up all the data you and I entered into CDDB and have put restrictions on who can use it and at what cost. Also much of what little was in CDDB for my ethnic collection was in fact riddled with errors. Other than that, I found back then that much of what I ripped either wasn't in CDDB and I had to manually enter it. Well, they may well be found because you may have submitted the data to CDDB/Gracenote using winamp back when you ripped them. Sometimes it is easier to use the manual review page, sometimes in the main entry page, where for instance you can select several different tracks and change the artist or composer for all with a single entry or edit. The dBpoweramp data entry, thanks to Spoon's efforts, is pretty flexible regarding data entry. And it is pretty easy to select the nearest to correct choice and then edit it manually. And when I see discrepancies, I often look at the artwork (and for Jazz or Classical read the often provided booklet) to see which, if any, is correct. I always open the manual metadata review page and pick and choose the correct metadata. One big advantage, as Smooth says, is that dBpoweramp, by accessing four sources often exposes the errors. Much of the data in Gracenote was crowd sourced, and had just as many errors as Freedb, in my experience years ago. I'll tell you that all of the metadata sources tend to be riddled with errors. And if I don't see the correct artwork, I have my scanner right next to the computer so I can quickly scan the artwork that came with the CD. Load both files (or sets of files) into mp3tag and use their tools to move the Gracenote metadata to the dBpoweramp rip.įrankly, I'd think you will find that it is often quicker to just get the accurate metadata off of the CD artwork, or, as I do sometimes, look up the CD on Amazon or some online store and copy and paste the stuff track by track into the dBpoweramp manual meta review page. Then I found dBpoweramp!)Īnyway, assuming they still use Gracenote, rip everything twice, to different directories, once with Winamp with Gracenote metadata, once securely with dBpoweramp with enough metadata to be able to find the file. If you really want access to Gracenote, does Winamp still access it? It did when I ripped much of my library to m4a using it 10 years or so ago (big mistakes, first many bad rips, second sometimes I could hear the lack of quality.
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