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Gracenotes
I have just recorded several albums with my ion turntable and only one of the five I have done was able to recognize the album when I imported it into I-Tunes. I thought I did them all the same way - putting labels at the beginning of each track, saving as .wav files, burning to a CD and importing from the CD to I-Tunes. Is there something special I should be doing so that it recognizes the album and tracks?
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kozikowski
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Re: Gracenotes
Leaning on your header title for a second, if GraceNote is doing all the heavy lifting, then you may be working way too hard.
Music CDs do not have titles of any kind on the disk. When you put a disk in the machine, iTunes sends all the physical properties and order of each cut to GraceNote and GraceNote makes its best guess as to which CD it is. It can get it wrong, but it's right enough of the time to convince all users that the titles are actually on the disk. It falls apart instantly if your computer isn't connected to the internet. Then all your CDs labels turn to Track 01, Track 02, Track 03, etc.
The songs that worked when you transferred them may happen to have a good resemblance to the commercial CD of the same name. The other disks didn't.
I have one long out of print vinyl disk that I'm sure was never printed as a CD. GraceNote will be helpless with that one...or get it wrong.
I know there is a way to export your label names to a form that will print so you can make a nice printed label for your disk. No Music CD will carry the labels, and the jury is out about iTunes itself carrying song names inside the computer. I thought there was a wiki for that, but I can't find it.
You can dig, too. Go up to the Tips and Tutorials at the top of the forum. Search your brains out.
Koz
Music CDs do not have titles of any kind on the disk. When you put a disk in the machine, iTunes sends all the physical properties and order of each cut to GraceNote and GraceNote makes its best guess as to which CD it is. It can get it wrong, but it's right enough of the time to convince all users that the titles are actually on the disk. It falls apart instantly if your computer isn't connected to the internet. Then all your CDs labels turn to Track 01, Track 02, Track 03, etc.
The songs that worked when you transferred them may happen to have a good resemblance to the commercial CD of the same name. The other disks didn't.
I have one long out of print vinyl disk that I'm sure was never printed as a CD. GraceNote will be helpless with that one...or get it wrong.
I know there is a way to export your label names to a form that will print so you can make a nice printed label for your disk. No Music CD will carry the labels, and the jury is out about iTunes itself carrying song names inside the computer. I thought there was a wiki for that, but I can't find it.
You can dig, too. Go up to the Tips and Tutorials at the top of the forum. Search your brains out.
Koz
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waxcylinder
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Re: Gracenotes
20% hitrate seems a bit low - but your sample size is statistically small at the moment. When converting my LPs I got around 50-60% hitrate with Gracenote "recognising" the digitized LP-to-CD. The rest I had to type in manually to iTunes - album art can often be grabbed from Amazon or Wikipedia or similar.
Koz is right you can get a nice printed list and cover art - iTunes can do this for you, it is one of the printing options available for you.
WC
Koz is right you can get a nice printed list and cover art - iTunes can do this for you, it is one of the printing options available for you.
WC
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Re: Gracenotes
Thanks for your replies. Most of these were popular albums from the seventies and eighties. I will keep trying and hope for better results. I was just hoping that there might be something I could put into the audacity information or into Nero which would save the information and be readable in i-tunes. I was able to do cd labels (from Nero - although I will try I-tunes). Any further suggestions are welcome.
Re: Gracenotes
One thing I've found that's important is to type in the album title and the artist's name correctly. For instance, I imported an LP into iTunes where I had listed the artist as "Moody Blues" when I typed it in to Audacity's metadata dialog. ITunes/Gracenote couldn't recognize it it. I changed the artist to "The Moody Blues" and re-imported it, now it's found.
Ken
Ken