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Submitting CDs to CDDB |
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You can submit your manually-added CDs to CDDB by using CD Trustee. The easiest way to do this is to first manually add the album to CD Trustee, filling in all the song titles, and the music genre and sub-genre. This is required information before adding the album to CDDB. Don't worry about filling in the time for each song, as this will happen automatically in the next step. You can also submit revisions to albums that already exist in CDDB. Then display the details for the newly-added album, and click on the album tab if that tab is not already selected. Then press the "Link album to disc" button, after inserting that CD into your computer. This button only appears if the album was manually entered, as the disc is already linked to the album if it was added automatically. Press the button that says "Album help" on the album screen to read a few more details about linking a disc to an album. Leave the disc in your CD reader, as CDDB requires that the CD be inserted into your computer to verify the number of tracks on it, and also to get the TOC, which it needs to use as the album key for future lookups. Then, go back to the main screen, and choose "Submit disc" from the Edit menu. Read the instructions displayed when you choose that option. If you followed these instructions correctly, the information that you saved in CD Trustee for that album should automatically be filled into the CDDB submission screen, so you will not have to type it in again when you submit. After submitting the disc to CDDB, it usually takes a while before it is accepted into the CDDB database, assuming it is accepted at all. Sometimes they will reject entries if the data is incorrect or for some other reason, unknown to me. I don't really know exactly how they process submissions these days. I know that some people have submitted their custom compilations to CDDB and these do not get added to the database (since that would be pointless), so they must have some process to determine if they want to accept a submission.
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