CDDB Preferences

CDDB is a database comprised of thousands of artist, album, and track titles. When you insert a CD in your CD ROM drive and open the recorder screen, if you are connected to the Internet, your program will call up your web browser and make a connection with this site. It will match the 'serial number' of your CD with their records and import all title, artist, and track data into the Recorder screen. This information will cross over to the Music Library upon recording completion. This feature removes the necessity of filling in all of the CD disk data manually. There is no fee for using this service. If CDDB does not return any information, your track titles will be listed as Track 1 and so on. There are a number of reasons why CDDB will not return the information for the CD you are recording, the most common being simply that the information on the CD you are recording is not in the CDDB database, therefore no serial number match could be made. Another common reason is that the user is having Internet connectivity problems, for example they are not online or their Internet Service Provider is experiencing problems. In all of these instances, the information will be entered as Track 1 and so on. If you want to enable or disable CDDB, you can do so from the CDDB Preferences found under Controls/Player/Settings. Simply check or un-check the Enable CDDB CD lookup service box.   ------------------------------------------------------- Music CD-related data is provided through the Internet from the Escient ® CDDB™ Music CD Database. Copyright © 1999 Escient INC. All rights reserved. Escient is a registered trademark of Escient INC. CDDB™, the Escient CDDB Logo, are trademarks of Escient INC. -------------------------------------------------------