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[ggibas45]

When I get to the Identify and Enhance step during converting LPs using Easy LP to MP3, Gracenote MusicID rarely comes close to identifying any of the tracks from the LP.  It usually identifies one track, and I manually enter the information for the remaining tracks.  I usually get video game info such as Warcraft placed in the track information fields.  I checked Options - General - Internet and "Enable audio disc information download" is checked.  Is there something I have to do to get Gracenote MusicID to work; an Easy LP to MP3 option or register at Gracenote?

[cdanteek]

ggibas45, on 09 January 2012 - 08:04 AM, said:

When I get to the Identify and Enhance step during converting LPs using Easy LP to MP3, Gracenote MusicID rarely comes close to identifying any of the tracks from the LP. It usually identifies one track, and I manually enter the information for the remaining tracks.  I usually get video game info such as Warcraft placed in the track information fields.  I checked Options - General - Internet and "Enable audio disc information download" is checked.  Is there something I have to do to get Gracenote MusicID to work; an Easy LP to MP3 option or register at Gracenote?

Every album?

Name some that won't identify?

[ggibas45]

cdanteek, on 09 January 2012 - 08:38 AM, said:

Every album?

Name some that won't identify?

Cream - Disraeli Gears - only found one track
Carole King - Tapestry - found two tracks
The Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin' - found one track title from another Mike Bloomfield LP
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash - found a couple of tracks

I plan to do some more LPs this afternoon and will update with results from them.

[ggibas45]

ggibas45, on 09 January 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:

Cream - Disraeli Gears - only found one track
Carole King - Tapestry - found two tracks
The Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin' - found one track title from another Mike Bloomfield LP
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash - found a couple of tracks

I plan to do some more LPs this afternoon and will update with results from them.

I did two more albums with similar results.
Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
When I got to the Identify and Enhance step, I selected a single track and clicked on the MusicID button for each of the 7 tracks.  Only two tracks, 2 & 3, had correct information.  
Track 1 had Chinese or Japanese writing for each field.
Track 4 Title: Goldfinger, Artist: The Soho Strings, Album: 18 James Bond Film Themes   The correct title is Piece Of My Heart
Track 5 Title: Audio 12, Artist: Blizzard Software, Album: Warcraft 2 Game Music   The correct title is Turtle Blues
Track 6 Title: You Snooze You Lose, Artist: Gonzales, Album: Presidential Suite    The correct title is Oh, Sweet Mary
Track 7 info was the same as track 5

For the second album I used James Taylor's Greatest Hits.  I expected the album names to be incorrect.  This time I selected all 12 tracks and clicked on the MusicID button.
Only track 6 was correct.  It had the correct title and artist, and album was incorrect as expected.  Tracks 1 to 5, 7, 10-12 had Blizzard Software as the title and Warcraft 2 Game Music as the album.  Tracks 8 & 9 had other incorrect information.

I haven't converted many LPs, but this is typical for the ones I have converted.  On some albums I've moved the track separators because a quiet portion has been mistaken as a separator.  For the James Taylor album there were no problems with the track separators until track 7.  I would hope this wouldn't cause problems with the earlier tracks.

[cdanteek]

The times for the songs and albums have to match exact to pull a match.

[ggibas45]

cdanteek, on 19 January 2012 - 06:49 AM, said:

The times for the songs and albums have to match exact to pull a match.

Thanks for the information.  I'll pay more attention to the length of the songs and MusicID accuracy.  On some albums it seems like there is 3 seconds or more between tracks, and I've been moving the track separators so there is about a second before a track starts.  I haven't deleted the extra time, so some tracks have an added 2-3 seconds.  I'll see what happens when the track times are accurate.

[ggibas45]

ggibas45, on 19 January 2012 - 08:59 AM, said:

Thanks for the information.  I'll pay more attention to the length of the songs and MusicID accuracy.  On some albums it seems like there is 3 seconds or more between tracks, and I've been moving the track separators so there is about a second before a track starts.  I haven't deleted the extra time, so some tracks have an added 2-3 seconds.  I'll see what happens when the track times are accurate.

I've had much better results when the length of the tracks matches or is within 1-2 seconds of the published times.  The published track time matching what I've recorded is the same response I received from Roxio support.

[cdanteek]

ggibas45, on 03 February 2012 - 10:16 AM, said:

I've had much better results when the length of the tracks matches or is within 1-2 seconds of the published times.  The published track time matching what I've recorded is the same response I received from Roxio support.

Didn't you believe me Jan 19th in this post?

http://forums.suppor...post__p__399266

[beiker]

I guess he was just trying out things that worked too.