Can Only Rip 1 Disc of multi disc cd, disc 2 overwrites disc 1

I'm using Vista and WMP 11. When I try to rip disc1 and disc 2 of multi disc
cd only one will appear in the library. It appears that the info on the
second disc is the info for disc 1 (Title, song titles, time, artist, etc)
even though the songs are the disc 2 songs. I tried ripping disc 2 first then
making a playlist and changing the song titles, etc but as soon as I rip
disc 1 the only songs left are the disc 1 songs. PLEASE HELP! Thanks.

 

On 13/3/09 19:53, in article
, "Donny R" <Donny

WMP appears to do a poor job of handling multi-disc albums. In theory there
is a meta-tag which says for each track 'disc 1 of 2' or similar, and you
would think that would be enough to help WMP. However you are not the only
one to post this sort of query showing whatever Microsoft are doing it is
not an adequate solution.

The approach I use is to use iTunes to rip all my CDs. This itself is not
the solution, but iTunes uses the Gracenote CDDB database to lookup CD
meta-data. The way Gracenote CDDB handles multi-disc CDs is to give each CD
a unique 'album' name. For example...

Pink Floyd's album the Wall which is on two discs come named like this
The Wall [Disc 1]
The Wall [Disc 2]

On Gracenote at least the consensus seems to be to put 'extra' information
that is part of an album name in square brackets. Another different example
would be

Nirvana [UK]

to differentiate the UK version of this album.

So to summarise my solution, I use iTunes to rip the CDs, iTunes uses
Gracenote to uniquely label each disc of a multi-disc album, and I then add
the iTunes folder to WMP, which reads the album names as set by iTunes and
keeps the two discs listed separately in WMP.

You could do a similar approach manually in WMP by ripping the first CD,
renaming the album name in a similar style "Your Album [Disc 1]" and then
rip the second disc and renaming it also.

 

You're referring to "set", which doesn't mesh well with a file-system based
world and thus isn't used for that sort of sort.


The further bit about "album title should reflect this" is correct - it's
largely that some rogue vendors don't have their metadata set correctly
here, AFAIU. =\