Force CDDB/Gracenote lookup

I was in the airport on Thursday, without internet access, and I wanted to add a new CD to my iPod, so I typed in the CD info and track names before ripping it. Now that I'm hooked back up to the internet, iTunes won't look up the Gracenote/CDDB info for it since I typed it in manually. How can I make iTunes forget what I typed in and look up the track information? I don't mind deleting the AAC files I made last Thursday, so if I have to reimport the CD it's no big deal (that was my goal anyway).

Thanks in advance!

MacBook (Standard Black C2D w/2x1GB Crucial RAM), Mac OS X (10.4.10), PowerMac Quad G5 @ work, refurb w/4GB RAM

Posted on Jul 3, 2007 12:00 PM

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Jul 4, 2007 7:58 AM in response to Alan Ivey

Deleting the imported files won't help. Unless you're willing to do some serious hacking, you'll have to trash the entire history of all the CDDB lookups your computer has done in order to get around this small "problem." Since you have the CD, I would imagine that all the track names and so on are clearly visible on the back insert for easy transcription?

Jul 4, 2007 12:08 PM in response to Alan Ivey

As long as you imported it through iTunes, you can just select the tracks you want to refresh and choose the "Advanced > Get CD Track Names" menu option.

This is a great feature that even works when you import your CDs when you're offline and you don't enter any track info at all. (It's apparently storing the CDDB ID info so that iTunes can look it up later.)

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Force CDDB/Gracenote lookup

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