> I burned a few tracks to a CD as a compilation but 
> regretfully forgot to make a note of titles and artists
> 
> So all I get in the CD directory now is Track01.cda to 
> Track07.cda, which isn't very helpful. These are all 
> similar-sounding solo piano pieces that I can't identify from memory
> 
> I always put the compilation in a folder with names 
> 
> 01 Artist - Title, Duration.wav
> 02 Artist - Title, Duration.wav
> etc
> 
> do a screen capture, edit, save as a .gif and then burn with Nero
> 
> I've used several ways to read the track in but none of them 
> include the original filename. Did the filename ever make it 
> to the CD ? Is there a utility or whatnot to make it readable 
> if it did ?
> 
> TIA


Unlike MP3, .wav usually doesn't include song information.

CDDB.com & FreeDB.org are no use to use as they need the entire original
album in order to figure out what it is.  They create a checksum of the song
lengths, and use that to determine the album.

There's a website called MusicBrainz, (www.musicbrainz.org) that can
identify individual songs.  You needs to download one of their programs, I
use the 'Classic Tagger' since I couldn't get the 'Picard' one to download a
while back.  You'll also need to set up an account (no big deal).

Anyhow, run the program, drop the files into it, and wait.  It take about 15
seconds per song.  In the case of the tagger I was using, it then either
moves the file to the Identified section, where you can then give the Ok for
it to rename them; or they end up in the Unknown section.

Sometime you get multiple matches for a song, and will need to pick one.
Failing that there's a lookup function to manually find the song.

When ripping I use CDEX v1.51 with freedb.org as the database.  CDEx v1.7
has a few bugs, being beta and all.

I also use Tag&Rename to deal with MP3 tags.  It'll deal with individual
songs or albums, and lets you fix up error or fill in missing data.  It can
also rename files based on info within the mp3 tag.

Tony

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