Hi Tom et al. Ok. One more shot at this thing and I will step off. If the
track is miss labeled it might not even have the title or artist correct.
In one of the examples I gave last message. My 17 tracks were ripped
perfectly. There were 3 tracks I had to hunt down. I finally found them in
other places 1 of them was labeled as track 1 for the title and the artist
was unknown. WMP didn't no what to do with it. Like all ms products it tried
to think for me and put it in the unknown folder under an album folder
called unknown album followd by a random number or maybe it was the current
date. There were a few tracks there from a few different discs btw.
So why did this happen? Well when I removed the cd from my library and
atempted to rip it again i used the search for cd information on the context
menu of the cd name. I was presented with an edit box to either search or a
place to manually type in any information. I did a search and sure enough my
album was listed 4 different ways. Only 1 of these listings had the same
number of tracks mine did, which again was 20, the other album listings only
had 17 tracks.
So, armed with this information I hope it helps you im one way or another.
Another option of course is to use the search for information and go to the
edit link to manually edit the track names and such. Then re-rip the cd with
your new info added.
The good thing about wmp, not to say anything about any other program is
that it's fast, usually makes a good rip, puts proper tags (when it can find
them) and names the files accordingly. Again I know many other programs do
this too but For now I'm sticking with wmp.
And again I will stress, no program I have found yet can tag mp3s like
winamp. I am amazed sometimes how with little information that sucker can
tell you what it is.
Good luck and I'll shut up now.
bb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kaufman" <tomca...@comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Ripping with WMP [was "Re: An Odd Problem (at least to me!)"]
But I do thank you for trying to help; forgot to say that before!
Tom Kaufman
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Ripping with WMP [was "Re: An Odd Problem (at least to me!)"]
Hi Tom and all. Not sure what to tell you. I had a cd that i ripped that
had 17 tracks out of 20. I found the 3 tracks in a different folder
called unknown.
I organize my ripping method by artists directory, then album directory.
I have found a few stray tracks in other places in these folders.
WMP also moved things around when i had the option to find missing
information. For example, I had a song that was on a compilation. WMP
took the song and made a new directory and put that one track in there.
When I saw the directory of the album name, and I knew I didn't own that
album. Sure enough when I went to see what was inside the directory it
was my missing track sitting there by itself with a totally different
album name in the tag.
So my advice, not the greatest, is too look around your music directory
that all your wmp stuff goes in to. If it's a big mess try sorting your
files by last date modified. This will tel lyou what folders have had
changes made to them in the most recent to the oldest.
Again not sure if i'm helping here or just making you pull out your hair.
good luck
bb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kaufman" <tomca...@comcast.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Ripping with WMP [was "Re: An Odd Problem (at least to
me!)"]
In my case, I also use Windows Media only to rip music; I then go to "My
Documents"; then My Music; that's where my stuff usually will go if I've
ripped music to my computer. Once I find it, I then move it to wherever
I want it; typically to my external drive. But I still don't know why
that CD I ripped last night doesn't have all the tracks! Will have to
investigate further!
Tom Kaufman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Boyer" <bboyer...@gmail.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Ripping with WMP [was "Re: An Odd Problem (at least to
me!)"]
I hate the wmp library and I only use wmp to rip music. I then use
windows explorer to see where my files have gone.
hth
bb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chalt...@gmail.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: Ripping with WMP [was "Re: An Odd Problem (at least to
me!)"]
The problem is that I very seldom boot my Windows PC anymore, but
going
from memory, I think you should be able to click on the library view
and
then view by artist or album to look for those stray tracks. Note that
you can also use other media players like Winamp or FooBar to look
through your library, if those interfaces are easier to use. Even
Windows Explorer should do the trick.
I need to do some ripping on my Windows PC anyway, so I'll take a look
and see if I can offer up any better tips than that.
On 13/06/12 00:59, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Well here's the thing: I know very little about how to navigate this
WMP
library! I thought there was an easy way to delete something (I
eventually got there) but I couldn't go back and repeat or retrace my
steps! I kind of like ripping with WMP for it's ability to title the
tracks right out of the box (CDEX doesn't do this) as I understand
it,
you have to set it up to do it! So maybe if someone would be so kind
as
to tell me how to search for these tracks (would they be in the WMP
library) it would be most appreciated!
Tom Kaufman
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Boyer"
<bboyer...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Ripping with WMP [was "Re: An Odd Problem (at least to
me!)"]
Hi. I agree with Chris. A good place to check is the unknown folder
if
there is one.
that or the various, or the unknown artist.
When i rip a cd through wmp I actually search to see if there are
multiple entries for the cd sometimes I'll find more than 2 or 3
versions. I can usually tell which is the correct version because
track lists are different or the number of tracks are different.
One more thing, IMO, winamp is a much better autotagger than wmp.
bb
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
<chalt...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:47 PM
Subject: Ripping with WMP [was "Re: An Odd Problem (at least to
me!)"]
Have you looked around for those tracks? Is it possible they ended
up
getting loaded in the library under another artist or album? I've
had
this happen to me with different CD rippers, and I usually just
edit the
MP3 tags myself to straighten it out.
On 12/06/12 19:42, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hello list: I have tried twice to rip a CD, using Windows Media
Player to my computer. Both times, it omitted three of the
tracks!
My question is, "Why?" As far as I can tell, I got no "error"
message! There is no reason that I can see as to why it's not
ripping _all_ of the tracks on this CD (it's a commercial CD; one
I
got from Timelife Music. So what is the deal? I don't want to
have
to go through the agony of ripping it again, for as I'm sure that
some of you know, once you've ripped something using Windows Media
player (I forgot to mention; am using WMP 11 and running Jaws 13)
anyhow, when you rip a CD using this player, it _will not_ let you
rip it again until you first remove it from the library! BTW-can
someone tell me the most direct root to get to the Windows Media
library; then to get to what I might want to remove and delete it?
Many thanks!
Tom Kaufman
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