[vip_students] Re: cdx
- From: Ayoola Stephen Efunkoya <ayokoya2009@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:05:26 +0100
Susan,
You are welcome.
But please what's cdex?
Thank you.
On 1/9/14, Susan Bourke <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi tony,
>
> thanks for that a good thing to know for the future.
>
> many thanks
>
> susan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: tony scanlon
>> To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:33 PM
>> Subject: [vip_students] Re: cdx
>>
>> Hi Susan
>>
>> Glad you got it sorted but was going to suggest that you could get album
>> information on one of the shopping sites like Amazom where they give track
>> listings for most albums.
>>
>> I have just been on Wickapidia myself looking for a list for a copied CD
>> and had no bother finding the list of tracks but if it’s a compilation it
>> might be a bit harder to find the track info.
>>
>> Best to you for 2014.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9 January 2014 13:33, Susan Bourke <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> thanks to you and Gary for your help, much appreciated.
>>>
>>> i forgot to say i was using a program called cdex. i have ued it for
>>> several years now and have never had this before. however i know all the
>>> tracks and will be able to put them in mannually with no trouble.
>>> thanks once again.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ayoola Stephen Efunkoya"
>>> <ayokoya2009@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:17 AM
>>> Subject: [vip_students] Re: cdx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello Gary,
>>>>
>>>> It's my wish just as it's yours that iTunes and other media players
>>>> will one day be able to label every CD we import - no matter when it
>>>> was released or where we are located, but till then, it's important to
>>>> bear in mind that these things are just what they are - mere
>>>> technology which are imperfect.
>>>>
>>>> Even in markets like Nigeria, the situation could even be worse
>>>> because iTunes doesn't currently label tracks imported with other
>>>> players other than it.
>>>>
>>>> Susan, you'll truly need sighted assistance, but if that's what you'll
>>>> need to get your imported CD properly tagged, why not just bear the
>>>> pain now?
>>>>
>>>> All the best.
>>>>
>>>> On 1/9/14, Gary Worn <garyworn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ayokoya.
>>>>>
>>>>> Great description, but Susan will need sighted assistance reading the
>>>>> names
>>>>> off the album, and I have to say it is very time consuming. I can't
>>>>> understand why iTunes don't have details of all songs, albums and
>>>>> complications on their data base. If iTunes are that great they should
>>>>> have
>>>>> this info and all the artwork for the covers of songs and albums. Good
>>>>> luck
>>>>> Susan.
>>>>> Sent from Gary's IPhone.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9 Jan 2014, at 01:42, Ayoola Stephen Efunkoya
>>>>> <ayokoya2009@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Susan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's been quite sometime since I last imported/ripped CDs to my
>>>>>> laptop. However, I'm sure you're not doing anything wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My experience - from ripping/importing CDs (different names for the
>>>>>> same task) with Windows Media Player or iTunes - is that the media
>>>>>> players look up the titles of the CDs from online databases and then
>>>>>> match what you've imported with what they find. Sometimes, they get
>>>>>> the matches wrong; at other times, they don't find any match for the
>>>>>> imported CD. In the latter case, I will suggest you label the imported
>>>>>> tracks yourself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't remember how you label the tracks through Windows Media
>>>>>> Player, but with iTunes:
>>>>>> 1. You press CTRL+I to bring up a multitab dialog box that allows
>>>>>> you to edit the tags of the currently playing track. Such tags include
>>>>>> artiste, title, album, genre, etc.
>>>>>> 2. When the dialog box comes up, use your left and right arrow keys
>>>>>> to navigate through the different tabs.
>>>>>> 3. The tab you'll need to label the tracks is the Info tab - which
>>>>>> is the second in the order if you are moving from the extreme right
>>>>>> with your left arrow key.
>>>>>> NOTES: Other tabs in the dialog box are summary, video, sorting,
>>>>>> options, lyrics and artwork tabs. You may look through these other
>>>>>> tabs later just to know what they are about. Who know, you may find
>>>>>> something interesting in them too!
>>>>>> Also, multi-tab dialog boxes in iTunes work a bit differently from
>>>>>> other such dialog boxes in JAWS and other applications. While you move
>>>>>> through the various tabs in other applications with the combination of
>>>>>> CTRL+tab, with iTunes, it's the left and right arrow keys that take
>>>>>> you from one page to the next.
>>>>>> 4. Move through the info tab with the tab key on Windows. The
>>>>>> available options you can edit in the info tab include:
>>>>>> * Name (track title)
>>>>>> * Artiste
>>>>>> * Year (of release I believe!)
>>>>>> * Album artiste
>>>>>> * Track Number (serial number in the list as contained on the album or
>>>>>> collection)
>>>>>> * Of (total number of tracks on album)
>>>>>> * Album (title)
>>>>>> * Disk number (guess this should apply in cases where an album is a
>>>>>> multi-box set of more than one disk)
>>>>>> * Of (total number of disks in the collection)
>>>>>> * Grouping (I don't know what this is!)
>>>>>> * BPM (Don't know this one too)
>>>>>> * Composer
>>>>>> * Comments
>>>>>> * Genre
>>>>>> * Part of a compilation (unchecked by default but can be checked if
>>>>>> the track is part of a compilation)
>>>>>> * Ok button
>>>>>> * Cancel button
>>>>>> * Previous button (moves you to the previous track if any so you can
>>>>>> name
>>>>>> it)
>>>>>> * Next button (moves you to the next track if any so you can name it
>>>>>> too).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Susan, I personally prefer to work with tags of audio files in iTunes
>>>>>> because it gives more room for editing. However, if you are
>>>>>> uncomfortable with iTunes, you can also try out Winamp. In winamp, you
>>>>>> edit the tags of a playing track by pressing Alt+3. That combination
>>>>>> brings you a dialog box where you can name the playing track or edit
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In addition, the fields you find in iTunes may also depend on the
>>>>>> version of the player you have installed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope you find this helpful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the best!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/8/14, Susan Bourke <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hi folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I got a cd for Christmas that I wish to put on to my hard drive, it
>>>>>>> consists
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> of 3 discs, I have done 2 of the discs with success, they went in to
>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>> music folder ok with name of album and track names but for some
>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> third disc will go on ok but with no name or track names. is it some
>>>>>>> thing
>>>>>>> I'm doing wrong? even though I successfully did the other 2 discs
>>>>>>> ok.
>>>>>>> best wishes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Susan
>>>>>>>
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