Webuser Forums: Windows Media Player 9 Track Recognition help please??

Ah, right.

CD & track recognition, as you know, is done through a central online db which recognises a commercial CDs unique serial number (not the tracks on it, per se). Therefore a 'mix' CD of your creation won't be on that central db, only official releases are automatically added (although some do allow 'variations' to be edited).

Furthermore, if the 'mix' CD was created as an MP3 CD (or WMA) then the track info would be embedded in the file, but it doesn't work if the CD is burned for playing in a domestic CD player.

As such, associated playlists will only work on the same machine they were created on (in relation to the location of any files/folders or discs/drives on the playlist) and the track info will only be available with MP3/WMA files.

However, if I were to rip 10 different CDs and save the MP3 files (with track info) into 10 corresponding folders (and those 10 folders in a 'root' folder), I could create various playlists (selections of tracks from the 10 discs) saving them in the 'root' folder.

I could then copy to an MP3 player, or burn an MP3 disc (for personal use

), all the folders from the 'root' down (including the 10 CD folders, and the playlists). As the playlists are still in position - relative to the 10 folders and tracks therein - the playlist would still be functional. And, as the files are MP3/WMA the track data is also available.

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