Wednesday, April 15, 2009

How to create a program database with Nero 8

Nero is able to access the free online internet cd database(http://freedb.freedb.org). However Nero is also capable ofhandling two kinds of local CD databases.
The program database (if available) usually contains a copyof the contents of the free internet cd database. The userdatabase is used to store information about user defined cdentries.
Unfortunately we may not install the imported databaseautomatically due to licensing problems. Users with fastand cheap internet access will probably not need thelocal program database, whereas users without any internetaccess will probably find this database very useful.However importing the free cd database into the programdatabase can take a long time (up to one day!). To importthe free database, please proceed as follows:
1) Extract the file "CDDB.zip", that can be found in the folder "FreeCDDB" of the Nero master CD into a folder of the harddisk by using an unzip program. You will need about 120MB of free disk space for this operation.
2) Create a new folder with the Windows Explorer. This folder will contain the imported free cd database and will be used as program CD database later. You will need about 250MB of free diskspace for this folder.
3) Start Nero and choose the menu command "Extras"->"Import internet CD database".
4) Select the folder, that you have created in step 1)
5) Select the folder, that you have created in step 2)
6) Importing the free cd database can take a long time (up to one day). This is caused by the huge size of this database with more than 100.000 CD entries and more than 1.000.000 title entries. You can abort this operation by clicking the "cancel" button.
7) Say "Yes" to use this newly created CD database as your new program database.
The program database allows searching for titles and artists.For example if you always wanted to know, which Elvis PresleyCDs contain the title "In The Ghetto", then Nero can tellyou the answer.
If you also want to create a user cd database, that can holdyour newly created CD description, you can proceed as follows:
8) Create a new folder using the Windows Explorer
9) Start Nero and choose the menu command "Extras"->"Create new user database" and select the folder from step 8).
10) Choose "Yes" to use the newly created database as your user CD database.

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