Windows Media Player
I have a software question actually, but you may have some insight. I have ripped something like 1500 CD’s, my personal collection, with Windows Media Player. This was done with Windows XP. I snce migrated to Windows 7, Windows, 8, and now Windows 8.1. My ripped collection now has many instances where I call up an album or CD that was ripped and Track Number 1 is labeled “Unknown”, as is the artist. The remaining tracks are all labeled correctly. Also in these instances, the cover art is not there. I am reasonably certain that I ripped these CD’s without any flaws. When I display the CD or album covers, I have a very large section of “Unknown Artists or Unknown Albums” that has the familiar cover art missing from those rippings where the first track is no longer properly labeled (i.e. “unknown” in the system). Thus, unless I can find software to fix these errors, I will have to rip much of my collection again.
Note that I did try calling up the music on another computer that still has Windows XP, but the information was still missing. Fearing the worse, I am looking for better software to manage such a large collection, a collection that will grow I might add. I want to be sure.
I am posting this communiqué because you (the reader) might have to manage a very large collection of music. Thus, I am hopeful that you too have had these problems and come up with a solution, or at least that you have found a better management software, which hopefully I can purchase as an individual. I think or hope that you too would want something like I describe so that DJ’s could easily find music and play it.
My goal or desire is to have the cover art and tracks come up for each CD or album and then have a feature where I can just click on what I want to hear and have it play. Windows Media Player did this at one time, but now I am not trusting it.
So, can you give me any insight or advice or suggestions?
Windows Media Player
I have a software question actually, but you may have some insight. I have ripped something like 1500 CD’s, my personal collection, with Windows Media Player. This was done with Windows XP. I snce migrated to Windows 7, Windows, 8, and now Windows 8.1. My ripped collection now has many instances where I call up an album or CD that was ripped and Track Number 1 is labeled “Unknown”, as is the artist. The remaining tracks are all labeled correctly. Also in these instances, the cover art is not there. I am reasonably certain that I ripped these CD’s without any flaws. When I display the CD or album covers, I have a very large section of “Unknown Artists or Unknown Albums” that has the familiar cover art missing from those rippings where the first track is no longer properly labeled (i.e. “unknown” in the system). Thus, unless I can find software to fix these errors, I will have to rip much of my collection again.
Note that I did try calling up the music on another computer that still has Windows XP, but the information was still missing. Fearing the worse, I am looking for better software to manage such a large collection, a collection that will grow I might add. I want to be sure.
I am posting this communiqué because you (the reader) might have to manage a very large collection of music. Thus, I am hopeful that you too have had these problems and come up with a solution, or at least that you have found a better management software, which hopefully I can purchase as an individual. I think or hope that you too would want something like I describe so that DJ’s could easily find music and play it.
My goal or desire is to have the cover art and tracks come up for each CD or album and then have a feature where I can just click on what I want to hear and have it play. Windows Media Player did this at one time, but now I am not trusting it.
So, can you give me any insight or advice or suggestions?