Windows media player and its Internet music database

[Ext User(soakes1@gmail.com)]

Hi all,
Does anyone know where the Windows Media player gets its information
from when it reads a CD? I'm talking about the album title, track
listing, etc.

I have noticed quite a few errors and would like to have them
corrected if at all possible!

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Stephen Oakes

[Ext User(Shadowking)]

soakes1@gmail.com wrote in news:1178750393.848933.24730
@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

> Hi all,
> Does anyone know where the Windows Media player gets its information
> from when it reads a CD? I'm talking about the album title, track
> listing, etc.
>
> I have noticed quite a few errors and would like to have them
> corrected if at all possible!
>
> --
> Stephen Oakes
>
>


Normally applications use Freedb

http://www.freedb.org/en/applications__how_to_access.5.html


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[Ext User(Anthony Horan)]

On 10 May 2007 12:08:28 +1100, Shadowking wrote:

> soakes1@gmail.com wrote in news:1178750393.848933.24730
> @n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Does anyone know where the Windows Media player gets its information
>> from when it reads a CD? I'm talking about the album title, track
>> listing, etc.
>>
>> I have noticed quite a few errors and would like to have them
>> corrected if at all possible!
>
> Normally applications use Freedb

Windows Media player uses neither Gracenote/CDDB or FreeDB.

It uses The AMG Lasso service, run by the people who do the All Music Guide
at www.allmusic.com - and because of that, inaccuracies abound as the data
isn't based on accurate matches with individual CDs.