How do eliminate your computer from recognizing your CD.

[Hardbopjazz]

I am preparing my BFT for this coming March. One track regardless of what I do, when I play it on my Windows PC it pulls up the artists, title of the tune and the album. I even clicked on properties and made sure nothing is listed there. Is there a way to prevent this from showing? It will kind of defeat the purpose if the information is reveled.

[.:.impossible]

Disconnect from Internet.

[jeffcrom]

If you're going to turn the tracks into mp3s, you should be able to "scrub" that track in mp3 form by going into "properties" and changing the artist and title to unknown.

[Pete C]

Disconnect from Internet.

I tried ripping MP3s recently with the internet off, and Windows Media Player still identified some tracks, even though there was no info from CDDB embedded in the files. I'm guessing there's now stuff out there that matches the raw digital data somehow. The way around it was to fill in all the track info in properties, and fool media player into thinking it's something else.

[Noj]

Pete C is correct. Not sure how it works in WMP, but in iTunes one can import a track then remove/change all of the information. Once the unlabeled/relabeled tracks are compiled with tracks from disparate sources, CDDB won't be able to recognize them.

Edited November 1, 2011 by Noj

[Hardbopjazz]

Disconnect from Internet.

I tried ripping MP3s recently with the internet off, and Windows Media Player still identified some tracks, even though there was no info from CDDB embedded in the files. I'm guessing there's now stuff out there that matches the raw digital data somehow. The way around it was to fill in all the track info in properties, and fool media player into thinking it's something else.

This is exactly what is happening to me. I will try what you did.

[Niko]

the high king ubu and me have a theory that you should just put nonsense information such as "000" into all fields because the computer will hesitate to overwrite this information (as opposed to no information at all) but haven't tested it thoroughly so far

[Pete C]

The weird thing is when I just changed the track number in properties it took the track title that matched the number from the album that the track was really from, even though there was no other info in those fields. The actual track was #6 from Mingus Revisited, but WMP said it was Take the A Train by Charles Mingus, which is track #1 from the album. The only field in properties I had filled in was the track number, 1.

[JSngry]

If all else fails....burn the cut to a disk, then put the burned cut into a standalone player/burner with two bays and burn it to another disk in "record" mode out of your amp. Then rip that cut back onto your computer.

If anything still shows up after that, you've been possessed by demons. See your local chango immediately.

[Hardbopjazz]

The way I got this to work was to, after the track was copied to my computer, I loaded in a program call AUDACITY and added 2 seconds of silence to the end of the track.

[Pete C]

If anything still shows up after that, you've been possessed by demons. See your local chango immediately.

If Chango's busy, Ellegua can take you and your files to the crossroads.