Does Power2Go not provide a service to import CD tracks from online CD databases

nzwebbie

Newbie Joined: Mar 13, 2015 03:56 Messages: 2 Offline

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Mar 13, 2015 04:09

I was slightly taken aback to find out after purchasing CyberLink Media Suite 12 that CyberLink software does not appear to automatically import CD tracks from online databases. So, with 5 purchased Audio CDs that I've loaded into my CD drive all I get is Track1, Track2 etc.
So if I wanted to import music into my computer from purchased CDs, with each, I would need to manually enter the details of the tracks??
Even free softwares have this feature of importing music tracks from online databases.
I would love to hear if CyberLink had somewhere a hidden feature I can activate so CDs I load automatically populate such tracks.
By the way my Internet connection was fine when I tested this feature.
Is there anything I need to do so this feature works?
Many thanks.

the King

Senior Member Joined: Jun 30, 2010 04:10 Messages: 296 Offline

Mar 15, 2015 21:41

Have you try Windows Media Player? Can it display track info correctly? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PowerDirector 365

nzwebbie

Newbie Joined: Mar 13, 2015 03:56 Messages: 2 Offline

Mar 16, 2015 04:19

No I hadn't before your reply. But I have tried this a few minutes ago.

Windows Media Player doesn't automatically pick up the tracks on loading of the CD, however it does so after alternate-clicking on the CD icon and then clicking on 'Find Album Info'. The CDs displayed near the top of a database's search results window all had picked the right title. I picked one that had the right number of tracks.
After clicking Finish all the Tracks and Numbers were replaced with the names and other info of each separate track. All were correct. But it's not only Media Player that can do that...

Up to now I have been using the very powerful, robust and mature Media Monkey which I like a lot, and I must say, up to now I've not found anything that even comes close to the way it performs, finds things, plays things, converts things and more, yes, it also finds CD tracknames instantly!

What I like about CyberLinks Media Suite is it looks great, seems intuitive, and looked promising in the way it integrates between the various modules, but by not being able to recognise CDs by simply linking up to a CD database I think that's a big shortcoming that CyberLink, if it would address this, would really benefit from. CDs are still widely used and CyberLink recognises this, but why does it not have this useful feature? When I import my CDs and can't see the tracks I will be inclined to just use one of the other softwares and to complete the job just continue the other software, as it seems to complex to import the tracks in one software, then jump back to CyberLink to create a Library of Music there, after the files were converted.

I know, some people might now argue, so why did I buy CyberLink then? Well, I assumed because CD DB import is so common nowadays, CyberLink had that too, without even giving it another thought. How wrong I was.

But maybe CyberLink could see value in introducing this as a new feature in an upcoming release.
Would be nice!

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Daniel

Newbie Joined: Apr 14, 2015 01:51 Messages: 2 Offline

Apr 14, 2015 02:09

Hello,
Windows MediaPlayer and PWDVD10 find cd tracknames but PWDVD14 does not search... Help, please?...
Regards,
Dan

jerrys

Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline

Apr 19, 2015 17:08

Power2Go should import the information automatically. I has for me in the past, but I haven't tested it with version 10 yet (I got it yesterday).

It doesn't always find the information for a particular disk or track, and I've had it import information in Japanese, but that's the fault of the databases it uses. Jerry Schwartz