Reading CD does not display title, artist, or album

[smokiibear]

I'm not sure why when inserting a audio CD, there is no Title, Artist or Album Showing, only Track 1, Track 2, etc. When reading the CD with either WM or Real, the additional information shows up.

[Lowlander]

Check with EAC: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

If neither can find it the CD isn't in FreeDB. Otherwise you'll need to check your network/proxy/freedb settings.

[smokiibear]

i can't get the easy copy to execute after installation. It just stalls on startup. Using windows 7 64 bit.

Further, I do believe that freedb is working properly. I cannot locate some of my CD's in the db, but when I use real player, or WM, it knows the title, album, artist, genre just fine. What db are those other programs using to get tag info?

[Lowlander]

They don't use FreeDB.

I cannot locate some of my CD's in the db

That sounds like it does work on others, which means the CD's just aren't in FreeDB yet.

[tonydl]

Further, I do believe that freedb is working properly. I cannot locate some of my CD's in the db, but when I use real player, or WM, it knows the title, album, artist, genre just fine. What db are those other programs using to get tag info?

Most of them use Gracenote (formerly known as CDDB), WMP uses Allmusic.
I think these two are the biggest online music databases - but not free to use (espacially by commercial software). Contrary to freedb which is licenced as GPL.