Entries tagged with “cd ripping” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

I stumbled across this little Windows tech support article on Mercury News. I suppose it wouldn't occur to me to copy the raw files from CDs onto Windows rather than use a program like iTunes or Zune Software to do the rips, but apparently there's a built-in security feature in Windows that automagically sets copied CD-ROM files to read-only. If...

The MusicBrainz audio metadata project is very clueful, but the song identifiers it uses are flawed. MusicBrainz attempts to use audio fingerprints as primary keys to link metadata from different rips of the same song. To do this it uses a toolkit called TRM from a company called Relatable. TRM ids have severe drawbacks.