CD Lookup

[Nigel White]

I've now ripped about 75 albums on 90 discs onto my new B2.  About 6 or so have failed to find a match and I've had to enter the data manually.

An odd thing happened today.  I was ripping a two-CD recording of Aida (1959 recording conducted by von Karajan).  The first CD it failed to find a match, but CD2 it correctly identified.

As I know it checks against the MusicBrainz database, I installed MusicBrainz Picard on my laptop and loaded the unidentified CD1 to it, which it matched without a problem.

So I'm beginning to wonder whether the B2 is giving up too soon if it doesn't get a match (e.g. if there's temporary internet slowness)?  Is there a way to tell it to try again to match before it rips the CD as an 'Unknown'?

[Peter Lowham]

Hi Nigel,

I think that Brennan are looking into this issue currently (I think I saw that in another thread a little while ago.  What version of software is your B2 running on?

Regards,

Peter.

[Nigel White]

I updated the software when I set it up a week ago - so the October 2021 version I believe.

[JFBUK]

Hi Nigel,

Musicbrainz publish an API which can be used  programmatically for searching/lookup against their database using an algorithm.

I'm guessing that the Brennan is using this API for its searches

More detail here

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Disc_ID

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Disc_ID_Calculation

My guess is that Picard is using a slightly different version or configuration of the algorithm/api to the b2.

btw if you have ripped tracks that you have not been able to name Picard can most times identify these using its AcoustId technology

John

[PMB]

Hi Nigel,

Another owner contacted me about this and said he found if he tried the CD again, DB Lookup was successful. So you may be correct about a slow response over the internet causing the B2 to miss a title.

Paul

Brennan Support.