cddb/freedb for existing collections of wav files?

[Steve Flynn]

On 05/10/06, James Leifer <James.Leifer at inria.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have many directories each of which consists of the tracks ripped
> from a single CD with cdparanoia. At the time, I didn't think to use
> jack or some other nice program that renames the tracks according to
> cddb/freedb data.
>
> My question: Is there any tool (preferably command line) that can take
> a directory containing the complete set of tracks:
>
>    track001.wav
>    track002.wav
>    ...
>    track009.wav
>
> and perform a cddb lookup, renaming the tracks accordingly?


How will the lookup program know which CD these are WAV tracks of? When you
are ripping a CD and you perform a CDDB lookup, the ISRN is read from the CD
TOC and that is used to identify the CD in the CDDB database. Now that
you've thrown that information away and have nothing but a big pile of WAV
files, you've got no way of telling what that CD was... in essence, you've
thrown away all of your metadata.

You have two solutions:

1. Rename them yourself, by hand
2. Re-reip everything properly, performing the CDDB lookup BEFORE you do the
actual rip of the data.

-- 
Steve
Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...
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