I’ve been using the great little dBpowerAMP Music Converter to rip CD’s to my computer. It connects to freedb.org and gets the album information automatically. Artist, title, track list, year, and genre are all right there, very nice.
But since my music tastes are decidedly other than mainstream, I’ve been running into some CD’s that aren’t in the database yet. So I have to input the information and submit them to freedb.org.
Yesterday I had the brilliant idea, hey, I wonder if AHQ is in the database?! So I threw Purpose into my computer and sure enough, all the data came right up. But there was a problem.
There are 13 tracks on the CD only 12 are mentioned on the back of the CD. Whoever input the data accidentally listed tracks 4 and 5 as “Soul’s Been Anchored” and “in the Lord” (there is a line break on the back of the CD). And since only 12 of the 13 tracks are mentioned there, they evidently didn’t catch the error.
So I submitted a revision (though it hasn’t shown up in the database yet). It’s no big deal, I’m just telling the story. In the few CD’s I’ve done with dBpowerAMP, I’ve found some other errors too.
Lookin’ Up is also in the database. So thanks to whoever submitted them.
And thanks to our OTA Hans for the wise technical counsel.