So how is everyone getting their music metadata?

ChrisK....._3

So how is everyone getting their music metadata? you plug your CD into your computer it rips off the CD and where does it find album information track information and all of that I used to use Windows media player which automatically put all the metadata on to your MP3s so you could play anywhere but now it no longer supports metadata so I'm asking myself where is everybody else getting this information from

Neil_Jones

Its not that Media Player has discontinued it, its more that Microsoft disabled the service it depended on behind the scenes but it doesn't affect all versions of Media Player depending on what version of Windows you have:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4488539/changes-metadata-services-windows-media-center-media-player

ChrisK....._3

Yeah I did know that and strangely enough it is wrong because I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 and metadata has been disabled in that too and the link you posted said that Windows 8 was unaffected so now I've upgraded to Windows 10 but I've got all the problems we not going to discuss getting it working so I'm back to the same question what do you do to get music metadata what are you using?

Shimrod

ChrisK..... wrote: »

Yeah I did know that and strangely enough it is wrong because I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 and metadata has been disabled in that too and the link you posted said that Windows 8 was unaffected so now I've upgraded to Windows 10 but I've got all the problems we not going to discuss getting it working so I'm back to the same question what do you do to get music metadata what are you using?

I use dbpoweramp (https://www.dbpoweramp.com/) which costs £26 but may be more than you need. Cheapest way to do it - use itunes and then use a free converter to change the files from apple format to whatever format you require.

EveryWhere

ChrisK..... wrote: »

Yeah I did know that and strangely enough it is wrong because I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 and metadata has been disabled in that too and the link you posted said that Windows 8 was unaffected so now I've upgraded to Windows 10 but I've got all the problems we not going to discuss getting it working so I'm back to the same question what do you do to get music metadata what are you using?

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en-GB.html

Chino

Shimrod wrote: »

Cheapest way to do it - use itunes

But beware!
The pitfalls of crowdsourced CD artist/title information

J_B

ChrisK..... wrote: »

I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1

Upgraded??? :eek:

ChrisK....._3

Unless I'm mistaken poweramp just let you edit the meta tags manually but it doesn't actually connect to a database like in the case of Windows media player where you put a CD in it automatically populates with the right information

Shimrod wrote: »

I use dbpoweramp (https://www.dbpoweramp.com/) which costs £26 but may be more than you need. Cheapest way to do it - use itunes and then use a free converter to change the files from apple format to whatever format you require.

ChrisK....._3

again I think this is just got a facility for manually editing the tags by typing in one track at a time where is with Windows media player you just put a CD in and it automatically populate from an online database

EveryWhere wrote: »

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en-GB.html

googler

ChrisK..... wrote: »

So how is everyone getting there music metadata? you plug your CD into your computer it rips off the CD and where does it find album information track information ...

I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) to rip CDs, and it, in turn, uses the freedb database to get the metadata. There are choices of databases.

dBPoweramp appears to do the same. EAC is free, dBPoweramp is not.

Every so often, EAC stops me and asks if it's OK to upload metadata to the database, and I click Yes.

The thing is, someone, somewhere has to be the first to manually type in the info, in order for a CD ripper like EAC to have it available in the freedb database for others to have on demand.

A lot of the discs that pass through my PC are brand-new releases, and I frequently find that there's no data for them. I then have a choice; be noble, be the first to take the time, so that things are made easier for others, or sit back, wait a week, and try again in the hope that someone else has uploaded the data from their rip.

I typically edit the metadata for most CDs, though, because although EAC populates artist and album, I want to populate "Sort Artist" and "Album Sort"; for instance, if I rip CDs by John Hiatt, or Frank Sinatra, I don't want them to appear under J and F. I want artist to be as above, but I want the sort artists to be "Hiatt, John", and "Sinatra, Frank". In the case of albums, I want the album name as published, but I want them in chronological order, so I edit the album sort field to be, for instance;

1969 Tons of Sobs
1970 Free
1971 Free at Last
1973 Heartbreaker

All editing done after rupping, using the mp3tag program (free download)

EveryWhere

ChrisK..... wrote: »

again I think this is just got a facility for manually editing the tags by typing in one track at a time where is with Windows media player you just put a CD in and it automatically populate from an online database

Have you tried it or not?

Anyway, are you sure WMP doesn't work anymore?

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-install-windows-media-player-12-windows-10/
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-rip-audio-cds-windows-media-player-12