An odd thing happened over the past week or so. I uploaded an old copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Normally what I do is put the CD in the CD drive, and a menu pops up asking which software I want to play it with. I choose “Real Player”, and then it normally tells me that the contents of the CD have not yet been saved into my library, do I want to do it now? I click on “yes”. And the music was recorded. Presumably because it’s an old CD, the titles are all Unknown, and the folder it went into was “Unknown - 2004-04-08”.
This is all normal.
Then, over the weekend I bought a copy of Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions. Older music, but definitely a newer CD. I went throught the steps described above. But next day, when I tried to play it from my hard drive, I found that every song on it seemed to be in the folder twice. They all had the correct titles, not just “Unknown”. So I went through the folder, and deleted the duplicates.
Then I tried to play it, and what did I hear? Not Stevie Wonder. No, I heard Nirvana songs, all listed in my computer with the Innervision song titles. Nevermind has a couple more tracks than Innervisions, so the last two were just listed with their track numbers.
Now I’ve been trying again to save Innervisions to my hard drive, and it just won’t take. I can play it when the actual disc is in the CD drive, but that appears to be it.