On 15/08/2019 15:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
When I got my present car a year or so ago, discovered the ICE package has
an USB input. Ripping CDs to MP3 on a USB stick works a treat.

Did some 30 of my favourite CDs (pretty old) - and all the album, artist,
and track names appeared on the ICE screen.

Decided to add some more yesterday. All the info 'unknown'

Did all this on the same Win7 laptop using WMP (I think) Where did it find
all the info displayed for the earlier CDs ? And why not for a new ones?

It will probably have come from one of the internet CDDB databases. One
of them morphed into Gracenote (http://www.gracenote.com/. You may wish
to use Freedb instead (http://www.freedb.org/). Check the settings in
your ripping software. You usually need to supply an email address as well.

Some CDs have CD-text on, which means a freedb lookup isn't needed.

Occaisionally, you'll find a CD that isn't in the DB and you have to
edit the text manually :-(