CD Track info not being retrieved

[joe935]

Using VLC 0.8.6c when I play an audio cd all i get in the play list is:
Audio cd - Track 1
Audio cd - Track 2
Etc.
Cds played with Win Media player will list the track info.
What am I doing wrong? Or what do I need to do to make it work?
Thanks

[joe935]

Is anyone else having this problem?

[Arite]

CD Track information is acquired from a CD database, the free/open version (what VLC uses - provided by libcddb) being freedb.org (I think Windows Media Player uses Gracenote).

The freedb.org server setting etc. can be changed in VLC's preferences ("Settings >> Preferences...") by going to:
Input /Codecs >> Access modules >> Audio CD

However, I am not sure how to actually acquire the information (perhaps 0.9.0-svn works?). Ordinarily, when a CD is being played directly, the track information isn't really necessary - only after it has been ripped/extracted (e.g. using Exact Audio Copy, which also uses freedb.org) do the tracks really need to be tagged.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful - if anyone does know how to acquire data from the freedb.org CDDB using VLC then please post.

Cheers, Arite.

[joe935]

Arite, thanks for the response. In checking preferences I see that it was set as you said. But it is not retrieving the track info. I even disabled my firewall to see if it was blocking but still no track info.
I guess now the question is: Is it supposed to retrieve the track info on playing an audio cd.
Could someone confirm that it does or does not work.
Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I think this is not working on VLC for Windows.

[joe935]

J-B, can we expect the problem to be fixed?

[joe935]

How about it j-b, will this problem be fixed so track data will be retrieved?

[joe935]

Just installed 0.86d and this problem has not been resolved. I was hoping it would have been resolved. J-B is the problem to be resolved or not?
Thanks

[Arite]

If it is to be resolved it will be in the next release of VLC - 0.9.0. VLC 0.8.6d was mainly a bugfix release for 0.8.6c, and quite possible marks the end of the 0.8.x releases.

It appears to be be in the "Todo" list - see here.

Arite.

[CloudStalker]

Yeah, already in the nightly builds there's an option for this but I haven't tested it myself.