I'm new here and have hit a roadblock caused, I'm sure, by the fact that I'm not really computer literate and, thus, I'm unable to effectuate computer tasks that would be easy for someone who is computer literate.
Here's what I'm trying to do. Having bought a new sound system that enables music listening at quality levels, I've realized that my Amazon mp3 downloads are not good enough. So, having collected many CDs over the years, I've embarked on a task of ripping each in a lossless format to assure quality playback sound.
My problem is that the rips do not include track names, but instead say only, Track 1, Track 2, etc. So, until I heard of this program, I would manually insert the name of each track before transferring all tracks, say, to iTunes. This has become too time-consuming, which lead me to this site.
Once I drag the full ripped album onto this site, my question is this: How do I use the online feature (like Discogs) to automatically download the names of each track and place each in the proper place?
That's all I want to achieve. If someone could please recite a step by step method of automatically achieving that end result.
For the next steps:
there are a number of rippers around that access web sources and add tags during the ripping process - these would be much better than your current method.
If you want to us MP3tag's functions to access web sources, have a look at the documentation first:
This would be the recommended first step.
We discussed this recently - most of the software listed can also rip to a lossless format (not only mp3):
This would be very helpful in identifying the correct ALBUM, ARTIST and track TITLE later if you want to use an online source like Discogs or MusicBrainz to enhance the metadata in your tracks.
Thanks for your response. If you could identify the rippers that rip, not just the music, but also the album name, artist name and the track names, I'd appreciate your informing me of the names of those rippers. Thanks.
It's the first one mentioned in the linked thread, and I'll recommend it too - EAC. I used it a few years ago to rip my whole collection to flac, which I then converted to mp3. It's been long enough that I don't recall the details, but it was able to grab the metadata for the albums so I didn't need to enter it manually for each one.
edit: I personally have used dbpoweramp to rip over 5,000 CDs to lossless FLAC files. It has very good metadata sources and also is a "secure" ripper that uses ACCURATERIP database to insure bit perfect rips.