I am wondering by what mechanism Windows Media Player purports to identify a (physical) CD when you play it.
I've never worried about this feature, assuming it only works for pop music anyway, but this morning I played a charity shop find of Reger Chamber Works on a cheap Orbis CD (Suites 1 and 2 for Solo 'Cello and a Sonata for 'Cello and Piano) and WMP decided it was Volume One of Reger's Chamber Music on MDG, which contains two String Quartets and a String Trio. It illustrated the cover of the latter, and also labelled the tracks as if they came from it, with their tempo markings.
I thought these identifications were based on exact track numbers and timings, as was used to expose the Hatto scandal, but although both these CDs have eleven tracks, the individual and overall timings are hardly close:
(Orbis - MDG)
3:18 - 10:22
6:10 - 2:52
3:56 - 6:45
6:10 - 5:56
5:04 - 7:03
5:16 - 5:52
4:16 - 6:45
10:37 - 7:50
4:34 - 7:45
7:56 - 2:06
9:04 - 6:24
66:30 - 69:40
About the only things it got right were the number of tracks and Reger!
I've never worried about this feature, assuming it only works for pop music anyway, but this morning I played a charity shop find of Reger Chamber Works on a cheap Orbis CD (Suites 1 and 2 for Solo 'Cello and a Sonata for 'Cello and Piano) and WMP decided it was Volume One of Reger's Chamber Music on MDG, which contains two String Quartets and a String Trio. It illustrated the cover of the latter, and also labelled the tracks as if they came from it, with their tempo markings.
I thought these identifications were based on exact track numbers and timings, as was used to expose the Hatto scandal, but although both these CDs have eleven tracks, the individual and overall timings are hardly close:
(Orbis - MDG)
3:18 - 10:22
6:10 - 2:52
3:56 - 6:45
6:10 - 5:56
5:04 - 7:03
5:16 - 5:52
4:16 - 6:45
10:37 - 7:50
4:34 - 7:45
7:56 - 2:06
9:04 - 6:24
66:30 - 69:40
About the only things it got right were the number of tracks and Reger!
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