I have an audiobook that a friend gave me a long time ago.
He downloaded from Audible and burned to CD. Some of these have I.D. Tags...
And, of course, no 2 are the same, and none pertain to the audiobook itself....
I find that odd............
Do you suppose that the tags came from the original CD's that Audible streamed??
The files on the CD burned from the downloaded Audible streams are all .cda extensions. From what I gather, file ID tags can be assigned to that format even if wrong...
CDA files are simply a pointer file to assist players to find the beginning and end points of each audio track on a true audio CD. The audio data itself is PCM and is not a file. No metadata can be saved to these pointers. That is where audio ripping programs come into play.
To assign metadata to these tracks you would need to rip them into an audio file format like FLAC or mp3 for example. There are many more types available, depending on your preference for lossless or lossy formats and what player you expect to use. Some support more metadata and artwork images than others.
Thanks, MG My method is to use a ripper to convert to .mp3 and rip each disc as one file. That is when the metadata shows up. I assign only Title, Artist and Disc Sequence. That's it. After ripping I use MP3Tag to verify that information and assign a name to each disc. Done..............
What program are you using to rip that assigns this information? It can't be getting the metadata from within the files. If they were "burned" to audio CD format, there won't be a commercial identifier avaialble. So odds are that program is using a second search likely based on track count, track lengths, and total time to try to figure it out.
I use dbPoweramp. It allows me to rip each CD as a single track. I have ripped many commercially recorder AB CD's and many that do have metadata have WRONG info. Those that have appropriate metadata do not all share the same format for that info among the CD's in the book. I have been told that that info is user uploaded to the databases, and spaces, punctuation, capitalization, etc. varies from user to user........... That's why I employ a minimalist system...