Been trying to archive some old CDs onto my laptop.

When I load them into the CD player, Media Player comes up with the correct album, artist, and track info. But for some reason when it saves the files to disk it saves them with no artist or album information.

Sometimes I can see that it will put a couple of songs into a correctly named folder, then move them into "unknown artist" when the rip is finished.

And each CD I try to rip stops twice at various points in the process?

I've checked the Rip options and I've checked the "artist" and album box.

Something anyone else has seen?

What version of Windows and version of Media Player are you using?

I never use WMP

I use iTunes and set it up to copy CD's as MP3's

Easy to copy onto my SD card for the Bolero too

Suggest use iTunes program, doesn't matter if you are running Windows or a Mac.

iTunes uses 'Gracefield' or 'Graceland' (forgotten for the moment) to do a history search.

Corrected by member fatty5000 'Gracenote' thanks.

You can burn them out as Audio CD/ MP3 or such, with the relevant info.

Good luck.

Edited 21 February, 201115 yr by giandougl

ok will have a go with iTunes. Will let you know how I get on.

Cheers,

Martin

Suggest use iTunes program, doesn't matter if you are running Windows or a Mac.

iTunes uses 'Gracefield' or 'Graceland' (forgotten for the moment) to do a history search

You can burn them out as Audio CD/ MP3 or such, with the relevant info.

Good luck.

that'll be gracenote

Both WMP and iTunes are pants, but never mind that, pausing midway through a rip and the weird behaviour could be virus related.

Have you tried uninstalling WMP and doing a fresh install.?

What anti virus protection do you use.

Anything else strange happening on you PC?

(There are plenty of free rip programs out there that do not tie you into Microsoft or Apple and are a fraction of the bloat of WMP or iTunes)

Both WMP and iTunes are pants, but never mind that, pausing midway through a rip and the weird behaviour could be virus related.

Have you tried uninstalling WMP and doing a fresh install.?

What anti virus protection do you use.

Anything else strange happening on you PC?

(There are plenty of free rip programs out there that do not tie you into Microsoft or Apple and are a fraction of the bloat of WMP or iTunes)

I am not a fan of either WMP or iTunes. They are both very faffy for ripping and transferring. I am using Sony Media manager that i got with my Walkman....Think that this is the same program: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/wmm_lite (can't check as i'm on my MacBook at the min). It i s pretty much drag and drop and gets all the track info for mine. Use it to transfer to SD for my Columbus

Edited 20 February, 201115 yr by jrw

I've never had that problem with WMP.

To be honest it sounds like something has been turned off in the options.