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Anyone,

I transferred an lp to cdr over the weekend,

popped it in my laptop at work today (MusicMatch)

and a pop up window tells me the closest it can

find for this cd from CDDB is Judas Priest -

Unleased In The East. Yes that was the lp, but

how did CDDB know?? In the past I figured there

was some sort of digital id tag for this on regular

recorded cd's but this is a cdr. I had no cd text

or name tracks .....

Must be looking at the number of tracks and time????

What's up????

Joe T.
 

RicP

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Must be looking at the number of tracks and time????
Ding Ding Ding!! Give that man a prize.

CDDB creates a unique ID tag based on the number of tracks, total playing time, and individual track times with a +/- of 5 seconds.
 

Greg_Y

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I'm still surprised that transferring it from LP to CD came up with the proper results! I mean, it's either a perfect match or it isn't, right?
 

Andy Hardin

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"individual track times with a +/- of 5 seconds. "

If it is not a "perfect" match, the software will pop up with 1 or more choices stating "your disc looks like xxx by xxx, is this correct" or something very similiar.
 
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All,

The "1" and only choice it came up with was the

correct one. I was surprised at this as well thinking

many more choices would fit the criteria of just those

two parameters.

Most of my cdr burns are compilations of 14 to 20

tracks using up the whole disc, but its never taken

a shot at naming any of those??? Thats why it caught

me by surprise when it actually "knew" the disc.

Joe T.
 

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