Track data include track title, artist name, record label, year of album-released song, credits, genre, subgenre and more.īelieve it or not, the information in the database can come from anyone: the record label, the artist, or even a fan.

It is NOT encoded on your disc.Īlbum data can be extensive, and includes album title, artist name, record label, year of released CD, genre, musicians, producers, ISRC, and even label website. This information is usually then stored on your computer by your media player as well as the online database for others. For individual tracks, Gracenote generates a fingerprint of a portion of the music file, and thereafter identifies the track with that section. Occasionally you may see album information from the wrong CD and you have to manually tell it which CD is in the drive. Gracenote recognizes a disc by analyzing the sequence of tunes on the disc and their lengths.

One of the most popular online database is Gracenote. Because this is encoded in your master, if after the mastering stage you decide to change the name of any tracks, the master will need to be re-made with the new track names encoded. HOWEVER, ripping an MP3 will NOT read the track name (remember, the computer can’t read the encoding). Any duplication from a disc with encoded with CD Text will transfer the track names only to another CD. Their text display (showing ‘CD-Text’) presents info that has been included when the physical disc was created, either as part of ‘pre-mastering’ or ‘mastering’.

These devices are not connected to the internet so they do not have access to any on-line database. Only Text-enabled CD players (in your car or home) read this info. CD Text refers to the track names and other information encoded into the disc during mastering. Different media players use different databases – Itunes uses Gracenote. When a music CD is inserted in a computer connected to the internet, the media player application (like Itunes and Windows Media Player) go through a convoluted system of taking the number of tracks on a CD, the running times of the tracks, and then comparing this information to a database of existing CDs online where it then retrieves the album, artist, track information, and even album cover from a central database.

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