Don't throw away old software automatically -- always a use for it sometime later

Hi folks
The only software that I've found that could get track info from a "One off" classical concert made in London's Holland Park in Leighton House was with an OLD progran - NERO CD ripper -- this essentially worked because it uses the Gracenote DB which is by far the best for "Obscure Classical Music" tracks - but is now commercial so great programs like DBPower amp etc which use the free DB sources (95% OK though)won't find them.

(Actually the program also still works on W11 -- tested with a VM but I was using an old W10 release- so it's worth keeping old Windows releases too for these types of things).

Ok max Rip is AAC 320 kps but perfectly good for stuff you can't get track info / tags for. I've still got the track1.cda, track2.cda etc if i want to mess about manually with things like cd text etc to see if I can extract track info manually but can't really be bothered unless I'm bored which I don't have time to get these days --the older one gets more time just flies !!.

Perhaps @Edwin nor other windows Gurus here might have an easy way of reading and tagging obscure cd-text !!!!



Cheers
jimbo



Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Perhaps @Edwin nor other windows Gurus here might have an easy way of reading and tagging obscure cd-text

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I use foobar which incorporates dbpoweramp and Musicbrainz pluggins...,
Usually pretty accurate, if not, I edit it myself.

jimbo45 said:

easy way of reading and tagging obscure cd-text

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You have an example of this?

Also very fond of keeping old software and using it in vm's. I still have all my old software i used from the last 30years on harddisks. Especially the software before 2008 are good in ripping/copying the cd's / dvd's to disk.

Tester said:

You have an example of this?

Also very fond of keeping old software and using it in vm's. I still have all my old software i used from the last 30years on harddisks. Especially the software before 2008 are good in ripping/copying the cd's / dvd's to disk.

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Winamp Pro (old version) can do this plus the nero cd ripper. Both access Gracenote DB --- I'm not sure how to do this directly but if these programs do it -then I'm happy. Modern foobar and dbpoweramp are fine 95% of the time but not for some obscure classical music.

BTW CD's are still used a lot by people who like classical music - but ripping them is better if you need to play say on phones, remote devices etc without a physical DVD/CD device.

I've about 3,000 or more CD's I'm digitising - Many are quite old - certainly not available any more and unlikely to be in any relaticely new publicly available free musical DB.

Cheers
jimbo

A you just mean the meta data, song, track, id, lyrics, covers etc?
I am usting MediaMonkey (not free, gold edition) for updating all of my tags. It has auto tag, lyrics lookup, cover lookup, auto-organize. Uses audio figerprint to determine what the track it is.
Have digitalised everything aswell. Got a small library of 54k tracks.