Earlier this month, when he decided to record a new compact disc, Joe Smith followed a procedure he's done hundreds of times: Insert the CD, get into the online music database and select songs. Yet ...

Gracenote, the magic ingredient in your software that identifies CDs upon insertion and recently started helping add album art to your iTunes tracks, has taken its share of hits from techies and ...

Back in the nineties, a database called CDDB (for CD database) provided a central location for compact disc track listings. When you inserted a CD that wasn't already indexed, you'd enter the info ...

I don't have internet access at home, and naturally, that's where I'd like to do most of my ripping.<BR><BR>Is there a way to download the Album info from a CDDB to my local CDex CDDB ...

A family of music database services from Gracenote, Emeryville, California, the leading media identification company. In the mid-1990s, Gracenote, formerly CDDB, Inc., created the first online music ...

Gracenote, operator of the online CDDB music-recognition database, wants to extend its CE-industry influence through its first embedded-database solution and through waveform-analysis technology, ...

One of the great features I've seen in some CD ripping software packages is that they will connect to CDDB and automatically populate the ID3 tags and file names for the tracks they produce.<BR><BR>Is ...

MacFixIt reader Michael Mortilla reports on an issue where iTunes is pulling incorrect track listings from the CDDB (CD Database). Michael writes: "While I love the fact that when I insert a CD into ...

CDDB glitch remains Andrew Treloar writes: "The latest version of iTunes still won't make a CDDB connection through an authenticating proxy server (i.e., one that asks for username and password). The ...