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Audio CD contents not recognized by CDDB but is available on CDDB/Gracenote website

Asked by melanie

I am burning my Cd collection using K3b. One cd is not recognized by CDDB: Eric Clapton "The Best of Eric Clapton" The Millenium Collection" 20th Century masters 2004. This CD is available in the Gracenote (and I assume CDDB) database. How do I get K3b to recognize it? Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. Many thanks!

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Best Someone (s4910321931-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

I owned two disks (both pirated) of Metallica's Metallica album (aka Black Album). One was recognized by CDEX (cd ripping application for Windows) and another was not. CDEX alsos uses CDDB to fill in track information. It happened two disks had different ids from the point of view of CDDB. However, the actual music was the same.
More datails how id is calculated can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#Example_Calculation_of_a_CDDB1_.28FreeDB.29_Disc_ID
So, your best bet is to fill in tags by hand and submit them to CDDB.

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melanie (mexbeachbum) said : 		#2

Thanks Dennis - I'll try it!

On 7/2/07, Dennis P. Nikolaenko <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Dennis P. Nikolaenko proposed the following answer:
> I owned two disks (both pirated) of Metallica's Metallica album (aka Black
> Album). One was recognized by CDEX (cd ripping application for Windows) and
> another was not. CDEX alsos uses CDDB to fill in track information. It
> happened two disks had different ids from the point of view of CDDB.
> However, the actual music was the same.
> More datails how id is calculated can be found here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#Example_Calculation_of_a_CDDB1_.28FreeDB.29_Disc_ID
> So, your best bet is to fill in tags by hand and submit them to CDDB.
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melanie (mexbeachbum) said : 		#3

I will try Dennis' suggestion. This answered my question to some extent, but I'm still not sure why the CD is already in CDDB database just not accessible via K3b. This was the only CD affected and if it matters it is one of those crappy BMG cd club cds (what can I say, it was free and I love EC). Anyway, consider it answered - I think I know what to do. Thanks!