I have thought long and hard about whether I should/should not publish this information - but I honestly cannot see any reason why I should not share it as I can see no harm in doing so.
I am sure I will be shouted down in flames if anyone thinks otherwise.
Maybe everybody else already knows this anyway and I am (once again) the last to know?
If you cannot access the CD track info from YADB, just use CDDB.
How? (I hear you ask)....
Open RealOne Player.
That will get the track info (I will not use that application to encode as it only allows 96bps mp3 encoding with the free version)
Then, when Media Centre cannot locate the track info, it will advise you:
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* No information was found in the YADB database. *
* Would you like to use the information from the local CD database? *
* *
* [Yes] [No] *
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Say [YES] and Media Centre gets the track info from your hard drive (where Real Player stored it)
Voila! Now you have the CDDB track info in Media Centre.
It is little convoluted but really only a few keystrokes and a lot quicker than typing 20 tracks manually (if you type like me).
You are not doing anything wrong as it is RealPlayer which is sourcing the info - which is exactly what it is suppoed to do - and Real have paid the licence fee to CDDB to do just that.
It is not J River's 'fault' if RealPlayer stores that information in a fully accessable, non-encrypted temp file is it?
Then - when you have ripped the CD - you can send that info into the YADB collective for others to use - Just as though you had typed it yourself, so there is no breach of anything really.