My son H took himself into HMV at the weekend to use a voucher he had had for Christmas.
He emerged with the Alexandra Burke album (much to my amusement) and was very excited to have the track "Bad Boys"
Returning home he put the CD on the computer so it could be transferred to his MP3 player. The bizarre thing is though it must be incorrectly tagged 'cos although the music is Alexandra Burke, the album cover, description and tracks on the computer are all "Girls Aloud," as the album "Out of Control"
So in order to listen to Bad Boys you need to click on "Promise"
and to listen to Hallelujah you have to click on "Track 13" (the Girls Aloud Album presumably only having 12 tracks!)
I've never had to return a CD before citing as the reason, the album having an identity crisis.
At christmas I bought a Cheryl Cole album that thought it was a Shakira album!
You do know how to fix this I take it?
No
nope, nor me
Have tried in Windows Media player but it never works fully and I can only change one of the fields not all
If you want to drop in the CD in to Abingdon, I'll extract the tracks, correct the info and burn the tracks on to a new CD or USB Stick as MP3's so H can replace his copies.
You can fix the info pretty easily for multiple tracks in iTunes (I'm guessing it's another Gracenotes issue).
The problem is not with any kind of encoding on the CD. Its because Media Player takes the pattern of the tracks, looks up some CD databases on the internet and takes the best fit. Usually, it gets it right. But sometimes wrong - with hilarious consequences.
It probably requires a slow manual fix (ie editing each track in turn). But you could try right clicking the album in the media player library (or when its ripping) and selecting "find album info". It should come up with some other choices of album. If the correct one is there, click it and all the info should transfer onto your files.
If the correct album is not there, select "edit" and update each track individually.
Of course, if all H is going to do is sling it on an ipod, why buy a CD? Just download off Amazon or similar. If there are tracks that us oldies want to put into CD player, we can always burn them from the mp3s (the opposite process to ripping). Thats what I persuaded my daughter to do, when she wanted a bunch of CDs for her birthday (including the Alexandra Burke one).
Ray description is about right.
If you're lucky with Media Player, when you click Album info then you find multiple versions and can select the right one. Otherwise you have to change the settings on each track that's wrong manually. It is a little tedious. The exact process varies slightly between versions of Media Player - can do step-by-step guidelines if wanted by anyone.
I still have a few tracks that are wrongly named as I hadn't noticed when I ripped them - and then I discovered it's a little wrong when I put together a playlist on the MP3 player and I keep meaning to get around to fixing it...