Question in CDDB, FreeDB

[slobizman]

(This may or may not be the best forum for this question, but I didn't see a better one.)

My son has a new CD out and we used Quinnware's Quintessential Player 4.50 to submit the track titles, label, etc. (all the CD text) info to CDDB. We used Audiograbber to submit the same info to FreeDB. Both of these programs were recommended by the respective song database information services.

We did the CDDB yesterday, and then again about 6 hours ago when we saw it did not take yet. We did the FreeDB about 4 hours ago. Netiher seems to have yet updated the databases as we have just tried to play the CD with both Windows Media Player and Real Player and neither provide any track info.

I could have sworn I read that it takes only one hour or less for the CDDB databases to update.

Can anyone who is familiar with this process let me know how long it normally takes, and even if I am approaching this whole thing correctly? We're new to all this and it is the first CD.

[slobizman]

I see now by actaully searching the database that it is in the FreeDB database, but I searched the CDDB database and it's not there. and this is from the CDDB site;"

"Most submissions are processed, merged into the database, and available worldwide within 15 to 45 minutes.

Occasionally, a submission may take one or two hours to make it into the database. On rare occasions, a submission can take as long as 24 hours, but this should be fairly rare.

Note that as soon as you edit and submit the disc from an application, the changes immediately appear in the application on your computer. This is because a copy of the edited disc resides in a 'cache' on your computer. It is only if you force an application to re-query the CDDB service across the internet that you may be aware that there is a lag from the time you submit until it appears in the service. "

[Massive Master]

Microsoft uses their own database for WMP. I'm not sure what RealNetworks uses...

[slobizman]

Do you know how to submit to the WMP database?

[Massive Master]

No idea... I assume it grabs information from the others periodically, but I'm just speculating on that...