Find Album Info doesn't work?

[Guest]

When I use Find Album info, it updates everything but the track name. I
select "Use this album for all selected songs" and it comes up saying there's
no match. Right now they have generic track names, such as "Track 02". I
think it's because it's searching by name. How can I get it to update
everything?

 

[Mike Williams]

Many of the online database's records don't actually have track data
included, so you're left to type the data in yourself.

 

[Guest]

Ah, that makes sense. Can I change which database that WMP gets the info
from? because it did get the track names when I used it before.

 

[Mike Williams]

No.

Past successes with the database do not indicate continuing success with the
same albums. At one point I noticed that many hundreds of records got
overwritten with Japanese and Korean data. Others which were locatable are
no longer so. It's a very poorly maintained database, and Microsoft doesn't
provide a way to switch to an alternate.

 

[Guest]

Ok, thanks anyway.

No.

Past successes with the database do not indicate continuing success with the
same albums. At one point I noticed that many hundreds of records got
overwritten with Japanese and Korean data. Others which were locatable are
no longer so. It's a very poorly maintained database, and Microsoft doesn't
provide a way to switch to an alternate.

 

[kreed]

Ok, thanks anyway.

Each CD has an ID burned on to it, when you copy the CD you copy the code.
This is how online databases identify the disc.
If you rip tracks from 2 CDs onto one disc then obviously the original disc
IDs no longer exist so how would an online database know what was on your
disc?
K

 

[Mike Williams]

Each CD has an ID burned on to it, when you copy the CD you copy the code.
This is how online databases identify the disc.

No it isn't. WMP identifies it from the musical/audio content.

See for example:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Publication&id=1425

 

[kreed]

No it isn't. WMP identifies it from the musical/audio content.

See for example:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Publication&id=1425

where or when was this technology implemented?
K

 

[Mike Williams]

where or when was this technology implemented?
K

Well Microsoft has been using something like this since Media player v9. It
seems to work very poorly for instrumental classical music due probably to
an insufficiently diverse tagged database, and insufficient discrimination
in the algorithm.

 

[kreed]

Well Microsoft has been using something like this since Media player v9.
It seems to work very poorly for instrumental classical music due probably
to an insufficiently diverse tagged database, and insufficient
discrimination in the algorithm.

WMP 9 has been available since early 2003, the research you point to was
2005 and was only tested on 68 songs.
K

 

[Mike Williams]

WMP 9 has been available since early 2003, the research you point to was
2005 and was only tested on 68 songs.
K

The article was by way of example (hence the "for example"). You can try to
follow-up the extent of Microsoft's research there either through Microsoft
Research or the US patent database, but corporations don't write research
papers on every bit of technology they implement, or do so contemporaneously
with product research.

 

[Guest]

help me!!!! i used to use feature "find album info" of WMP 11, but recently,
i can't use this feature. i don't know why, when i right-click a song and
chose "find album info", nothing happen. Even, i don't see letters "find
album info" when i righ-click.
note: with songs in a playlist which i added before, i can still this
feature. please help me !!!