Any of you use a USB stick to play your music? If so, do you convert CD's via Windows Media?

[AUGM1]

I know most people don't buy physical media anymore so this question may seem odd.
I'm a long time fan of extreme metal, so my collection is mostly on CD's.
Anyway, I keep running into problems with Windows Media labeling the artist as "Unknown" which to some may think it would be expected, but this seems to happen after a several years of buying a new PC.
Apparently, there is a database that Windows looks the CD up on, and I can't seem upgrade just Windows Media to get the database to work.
Anyone got any suggestions?

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[menikmati]

I don't have any experience with WMP, there might be a library that needs to be reinitialized or something along those lines.

Have you looked into other CD ripping tools? Assuming these are original CDs, they should have all the metadata to populate the artist, track names, etc.

 

[Shankmeyster]

Have you not ripped all your CDs to your hard drive and then copied them to your phone?

 

[AUGM1]

Have you not ripped all your CDs to your hard drive and then copied them to your phone?

I do not have a smart phone.

 

[himawari129]

You can try foobar2000, it has a tagging utility. Foobar2000 can also rip CDs just fine.

Or use this tagging tool if you already have the files https://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html.

 

[frenzal]

As said above, MP3tag. Do it manually, build your own library, and be done with it.

 

[Spart]

Honestly the Windows version of iTunes works great for this.

It will download track names, let you rip MP3, and if you create a playlist, you can highlight all of the songs in that playlist and then just drag and drop them onto an explorer window with the thumb drive open in it, and it will copy all of those MP3's to that folder for you.

I did that for years before I just started using my iPhone/CarPlay the same way (syncing playlists of MP3s to the iPhone using iTunes on Windows.)

 

[Sorabaxton]

For my Plex library I use musicbrainz picard application on windows to re-tag and write artists, track names etc. Its great and uses the musicbrainz database. Can also download album art etc and override anything you have

 

[JF311]

MusicBee is a good option.

 

[zymmer4]

I commit all of my music to mp3 and load it onto my media app on my pc..At that point all music is named by however you want to identify individual selections..Then, I build a "play list" and download it to my stick..If I want to add new selections to the stick, I can just download new selections into the same stick..I have over 100 hours of personal selections loaded onto usb sticks to play in my FL5. I also have a cd player that I can plug into the usb port to play any cd I want to hear. I don't listen to commercial any media.

 

[AUGM1]

MusicBee is a good option.

This works.
It even displays the album cover of one of the CD's I used it for.
Kind of a bitch to use, though.

 

[djl526blue]

Sounds like others have used more sophisticated software than me. I ripped most of my CD collection years ago just using windows media player to my PC and copied to a few memory sticks that I have in each car that stopped including a CD player. I also created Playlists as was suggested using freeware called SychPlaylist. Artist and track information comes along for the ride on most of my ripped CD tracks, but a few have come from compilation CDs and in those cases the artist information is missing. I still get to listen to what I want, when I want, advertisement free.

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