I've got a white whale album. I routinely bought CDs from a secondhand store and found some half-decent techno labeled Amixiam - Dream Frequencies. Quite possibly just some guy's personal work, packaged with a modicum of professionalism. No internet search has ever turned up a damn thing, and I no longer live on the same continent as that thrift shop.

But then - a few years ago - I was going through old CDs, ripping them anew for modern codecs and decent bitrates. CDex filled in the track names automatically. A database recognized the disc! Someone out there had this information! And seconds later I realize that someone was me, sending the data to CDDB automatically, when I had ripped it the first time. I played a fifteen-year brick joke on myself.

[–] cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

That’s awesome. I used to manually enter all the info myself too whenever it wouldn’t come up, back in the day

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

That's the one. It would pull data from online so you wouldn't have to enter all the track names.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I couldn't remember but knew someone would post the name.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

never used it to rip discs, but it was the very first windows program i used for recording analog inputs to convert tapes and records to digital.