Ripping CD to media player

I got bought the 3CD set ofAnthems Electric and very good it is

However CD1 and CD2 have both been labelled the same but tracks are different
I've ripped CD2 and changed all the names and track titles and CD title but windows player still overides it when I rip CD1 onto the computer
Is there anyway I can get round so the system will accept both CDs it as I dont have a receipt as it was a pressie

Merry Christmas

[Viney]

Eh, you mean when you go to load it on your PC, it picks up the same track names etc form the internerd? This sometimes is the case with these things. If you change the ID3 Tags using advanced editor in Windoze media player, then there shouldnt be an issue with it.

Or do you mena when you play the CD on your pc it picks up the tracks? If this is the case, then sadly its one of those things and as i say some of the track datat is personaly entered and you cant do anything about it Its nott he CD fault, its the database. Try using and alternate play, like winamp, or itunes etc. Sorry if this doesnt help 100%

Thanks will try all those when I understand it lololol
or better still ask my teenage son cos he will!

[embee]

As Viney says.....

When you say you changed the names/titles, do you mean the file names or the "tags"? Tags are semi-hidden data attached to the file which some programs use to identify files as linked etc.
I'm not sure how it'll work with what you're trying to do, but for my Garmin satnav it's only the tags which matter, the file names aren't used. I found some ripped CD's only tagged the first track, the others all disappeared from teh album on the Garmin and were listed in "unknown".

When you've ripped the CD, go to the saved folder in your music, right click on the track you want to change, left click on properties, then summary, and you'll get a window up which has the "tags" for artist, album, track name etc. You can select and edit the info (left click on the text in the "value" field) in these fields in the normal manner. If you want to change the artist/album info for all tracks in an album, simply right click on the album file and do the same process, obviously you don't want to name all the tracks the same.

There are progs around which enable easy batch renaminng etc, Mediamonkey is a favourite though I haven't used it personally, I only deal with a few albums at a time and Windows will do it.

Note that to get things right you often have to ensure the tags are exactly the same, upper case, spaces, hyphens etc all change it, so copy&paste is often a wise choice.