Posted by Charles Russell on 08/25/07 13:09

levi.cadjockey@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a windows 2000 pro system and I have been using Audacity to
> record my cassette collection to mp3 on a second hard drive. I have
> hardly any cds. Real player (which I only intermittently use)
> recognizes the album and artist of the files I have recorded through
> my AOpen Cobra AW-870LP sound card, and shows artist info and album
> covers.

How can that possibly work? For CD's, services like CCDB and FREEDB use
a digital fingerprint, but how can you fingerprint a file that has been
recorded from analog? Did you type in something to identify the tape?

I use a tag editor to copy levels of the hard disk directory tree into
the tags, but you must start with meaningful filenames, which I create
by hand except in cases where "Lecture 1, Lecture 2, etc" permits
automation.

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