# Digital music with no title/artist etc
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 3, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642 "2009-06-03T22:51:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642/1 "2009-06-03T22:51:30Z")
I have a lot of music in my library that has no artist, title, or other data. Usually this is from old CDs that just showed up as “Track 1” when I ripped them. Some of them are probably from my ex boyfriend, I just spent 30 minutes deleting a lot of his music. Anyhow, I made a playlist of all the music and I will be noting the song titles and artists so I can edit the file names.
Does anybody else have this problem? Do you edit the file names when you rip a CD to your computer, or do you let it build up like me?
Also, I might be dropping in with songs I don’t know the name or artist of, so hopefully you guys can help with that.
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### Author:  [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642/2 "2009-06-03T22:56:27Z")
Well, here’s one for instance. The version of “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” where the singer whispers at the beginning- is that the Adverts version?
_hangs head in shame_ And I call myself a punk rocker.
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### Author:  [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642/3 "2009-06-04T03:09:19Z")
> [@RedRosesForMe](#):
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> I have a lot of music in my library that has no artist, title, or other data. Usually this is from old CDs that just showed up as “Track 1” when I ripped them. Some of them are probably from my ex boyfriend, I just spent 30 minutes deleting a lot of his music. Anyhow, I made a playlist of all the music and I will be noting the song titles and artists so I can edit the file names.
>
> Does anybody else have this problem? Do you edit the file names when you rip a CD to your computer, or do you let it build up like me?
>
> Also, I might be dropping in with songs I don’t know the name or artist of, so hopefully you guys can help with that.
Do you use itunes?
-Make sure you’re connected to the internet
-select a “Track 01” song (or songs)
-on the top menu go to Advanced –\>Get CD track names
itunes will access Gracenote CDDB and download the track and album information including artwork. Keep in mind your tracks will move around to wherever they’re supposed to go in the sort order you’ve specified.
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### Author:  [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642/4 "2009-06-04T03:27:20Z")
no iTunes. I’m boycotting the iPod because I like to be contrarian like that.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642/5 "2009-06-04T04:33:10Z")
The CDDB is not a free source. Try using [mp3tag](http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Mp3Tag/mp3tagde.html). Like most free programs it uses the freedb, which isn’t as complete as the [CDDB](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB).
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-music-with-no-title-artist-etc/498642/6 "2009-06-04T04:47:16Z")
Here’s another nifty little free program for downloading album art [Album Art Downloader](http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art)