[CUBE] OT: AUTOMATICALLY RETRIEVING mp3s Track Info

[Thubten Kunga]

Francois,
Your approach is way unnecessary and off base. Just connect to the 
internet before you are ready to rip. There are NO mp3 tags recorded on 
your audio CDs. You need to RETRIEVE the MP3 tags from the CDDB with 
the "ADVANCED" pull down menu that says "Get CD Track Names" and your 
Mac will transmit the CDs ID to the CDDB which will in turn return the 
track, artist, album name data back to your previously "unknown" 
listings. Then just edit the tracks individually for any missing or 
incorrect listings BEFORE you rip and THEN your tracks will have those 
mp3 tags attached to them.

You can read all about the CDDB in the iTunes Help Center by simply 
entering CDDB in the Ask A Question field and pressing return. There 
are 7 different sections explaining the CDDB and how it saves all of us 
many hours of entering track info from scratch.

But don't take the returned data for granted. You have to triple check 
the results. There are a lot of mistakes stored there. Many times, 
especially in the case of electronica compilations, the artists are in 
the song column and vice versa. So you have to cut and paste them 
around ONE TRACK AT A TIME to get them straight. After such an effort, 
you can "Submit CD Track Names" back to the CDDB under the same 
Advanced menu to help them keep their act together.

k

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 04:45  PM, Francois Barbary wrote:

> Hi everyone. I used to use applescript quite allot, back on my pwr mac 
> 7100/80. with 7.6.
> but that was along time ago... Heres my situation... I have a whole 
> bunch of CD's and a word doc. the word doc is formated like this
>
> "Trance CD VI
> 1.  DJ Sammy & Yanou – Heaven (Original)
> 2.  Paul Van Dyke – Second Sun (Empire Remix)
> 3.  Ayla – Angelfalls"    etc
>
> when i put the disk into my cube it cant read the id3 tags that have 
> (supposedly) been recorded on the audio files. but i was wondering if 
> someone could help me write a script that takes the text from the doc. 
> and put it into my itunes cd song info before i rip it.
>
> so it must 1) read the artist, (after the period and space, up to the 
> space and hyphen) put it in the artist, for the correct track number, 
> 2) then read the title (anything after the hyphen) and put that in the 
> title, and put the track number in the track number field.
>
> any help would be greatly apprecieted.
> Francois