I suppose ou know the song : sing ho for the life of a bear, sing ho for the life of a Pooh -- I say : sing ho for the life of a Lee. Thanks so much, Lee, yes, it said something about Gracenote database-- it's a great help. although it is crazy when one tries to reason these things out- it just won't work. I suppose it is affinity by arbitrary bedfellowship. Better fill in something stupid than nothing . I would prefer a blank space. Do you believe that a neutral CD player would just call it "track 1"? Marta
On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:20, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jul 6, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Marta Edie wondered: > >> I bought through the Mac Music store and downloaded the German >> Loreley song. I want to use at a meeting where they show a Rhine >> cruise. >> I then burned a copy on a disk. i burnt it as audio CD. It came down >> in AIFF format. >> When I play it back on my iMac from where I burnt it, it shows up as >> Loreley and plays accordingly >> Now on my iBook as well as my powerbook it shows up as a song with a >> wild title and a totally different name of a singer. It, however, >> plays the correct song. >> What in the world is the matter here? I had this happen once before >> with a different recording and it showed a japanese singer even in >> japanese script. - that is so odd??? >> Apart from that , will this AIFF format now play through a different >> CD player ? My iBook is not loud enough and I don't have external >> loudspeakers to amplify the sound. > > It should work in any standard CD player. > > Here's my guess as to what's going on with the naming. > > Ordinary audio CDs usually do not contain information about the song > titles or artists. When you put a music CD into your Mac, iTunes grabs > some information off the CD and goes online to the Gracenote CD > database to try and figure out which CD it is. (It's kind of like > identification by fingerprinting.) > > When you burn a music CD on your iMac, the "fingerprint" is stored on > the iMac, so the iMac can identify the CD. If you go to another > machine, it contacts Gracenote which, of course, doesn't know anything > about the CD you burned. It sometimes returns the information for > another CD that's got a similar fingerprint. Some Japanese singer's CD > has the same fingerprint as your burned CD. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
