Track lengths not loading when scanning media files

[Jazz_North]

Try using Scan CD-Rom drive to enter the data from a CD. I think you will have more luck. I don't know what you use to rip your cds but that program ought to encode the length data from the CD; it has to read it from the cd to know how to break the cd into tracks. However, if you are ripping to WAV, it may not do so as the WAV meta-format is very poor and does not standardly include length. (Audacity has a good description of WAV metadata here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV - scroll down to metadata and you will see that length is not one of the standard tags.) I don't know if OCD tries to get data from freedb if it is missing from the media scan (I doubt it), but length data is sometimes missing there, too (and always missing, in my experience, from data taken from Amazon). So I doubt that the problem is not that OCD is not reading the length data, but that the length data is not there for OCD to read.

Out of curiosity, what do you use to rip your music and what do you use to play it?