A client recently provided me a CD containing four narrative-type audio tracks. He wanted me to separate each track onto its own CD (for a total of 4 CDs). One of the discs, when played in "iTunes", gets identified by CDDB as "Hotel California". The track isn't anywhere close to being Hotel California... it's the voice of a motivational business leader whose name is Al Levi. My customer, not understanding how CDDB works, thinks that somehow I put that "Hotel California" information on the CD and that I must be able to take it off.
Can anyone provide a suggestion on how I can keep CDDB from mis-identifying the CD, or how I can submit info to CDDB so that they identify the disc/track correctly?
There might be an option like that, but it'd be difficult to try to instruct everyone who is going to receive this CD (hundreds of people) to turn that option off.
Hundreds of people other than myself are going to be listening to this CD on devices ranging from the CD players in their cars, to the CD players in their home entertainment systems, to the CD/DVD players that are installed on their computers. Of the people who listen to this through their computer, I can't dictate what media player they use. Some will use Windows Media Player, others Winamp, an likely others will use iTunes. It's just one of those popular media players on the market. I can't very well attach a note to every CD that I ship saying, "Hey, if you're going to play this at home *don't* use iTunes." or "If you're going to play this with iTunes, please be aware that it'll tell you you're listening to 'Hotel California' when, in fact, you obviously won't."
What I want to know is how to get Gracenote's CD Data Base service to properly identify the disc, or find out how to tweak the disc in such a way that a title lookup doesn't occur at all, or find some other workaround that'll trick CDDB into NOT thinking that the track is 'Hotel California'.
The only similarity I can find between Hotel California and the CD that I've created is that the first track of each "album" is exactly 6:30 in duration.
I've thought about adding a 1/2 second blank track at the beginning of the CD just to throw off the CDDB server.
