topic Re: Gracenote CDDB problem in PCs & Accessories

Gracenote CDDB problem

sarpal — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:06:04 GMT

I appreciate that Gracenote can't contain all CD data but I'm getting the "Do you want to register etc" splash screen with almost every CD that I try to rip. I accept the option to register even though I already have but it still doesn't recognise the CD and pick up the tracks. It doesn't happen to all CDs and I can't see anything obvious in Options and it;s starting to annoy me to have to enter track details by hand; does anyone have any thoughts or solutions?

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

seb21__ — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:09:43 GMT

Maybe the info of this CD aren't in the CDDB. But that would be crazy.

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

sarpal — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:12:51 GMT

Like I said; it's happening to multiple CDs. If it were all of them then I'd be looking for a reinstall etc. . .

Is there anyway I can download the Gracenote software? Or register directly at their website?

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

Twisted-Rizla — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:56:45 GMT

Hi sarpal.

I don't use gracenote myself so don't have a full understanding of the software but I found this which might be of help to you. Have a look at Gracenote Metacredit

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

chris_lewis — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:42:29 GMT

There is also a possibility that if you have a firewall on your PC it may be blocking attempts to connect to the CDDB, I use NIS and I had to manually configure access for theCDDB before it would work!

Hope this helps!!

C

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

drinkfeckarse — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:16:20 GMT

i had to do the same with norton

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

sarpal — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:32:05 GMT

Hi sarpal.

I don't use gracenote myself so don't have a full understanding of the software . .

Hi Twisted-Rizla (!)
Thanks for the link, I'll try it out. You made me think; I assume that you upload CDs to your VP using SS - so what do you do to capture the track details prior to copying to the library?

Thanks again.

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

sarpal — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:46:16 GMT

Hi, I do have NIS installed so went through the firewall settings and found some programmes that weren't set up. Additionally I downloaded and installed the Gracenote Metacredit. I've just run one of the CDs that didn't pick up and now it does (yah hoo!) So I don't know which fix did it (don't really care) but thanks to both of you for the pointers and fix, much appreciated.

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

chris_lewis — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:19:47 GMT

Re: Gracenote CDDB problem

Twisted-Rizla — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:17:41 GMT