When you marked the option to fetch the information stored on the AudioCD from a Internet music database, Ashampoo Music Studio 3 connects to the database from freedb. The service is completely free and anonymous, meaning that you don’t have to register in any way.

 

Why should you use this feature?

 

In the days before PC’s when the compact disc standard was created the designers unfortunately failed to make any provision for storing title, artist and other information. This is a pity, since the digital CD medium is theoretically perfect for storing all sorts of interesting additional data together with the music.

 

freedb is one of the solutions to this problem. It is a online database system (like others) that stores all the information missing on CDs – mainly the names of the albums, tracks and artists.

For more information about this online service see freedb.org

 

Note: If you are not currently connected to the internet one of two things will happen:

 

1. If you have enabled the “auto dial” feature in your internet connection settings Windows® will automatically bring up your internet connection. Ashampoo Music Studio 3 can then contact the music database.

 

2. If you do not have an internet connection at all or “auto dial” is disabled then Ashampoo Music Studio 3 will not be able to contact the music database. In this case a small message with a description of the problem is displayed and the CD information fields are simply left blank. You can either enter the information yourself afterwards or just continue without it.

 

Ashampoo Music Studio 3 will try to fetch the information if they are available.

 

It might failed due to several reasons: Maybe the audio CD you want to read is too old or currently not listed in the database or you are extracting audio files from a CD which has no readable information stored, e.g. a sampler or mix CD from a friend.

 

 

 

If there is no exact match for the audio CD you will find a list of some close matches. Please select the CD which might fit to your CD and click on OK.

 

In the next program screen you can select the tracks from the CD you want to extract.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get information from the internet music database