I'm a musician I recorded my own album then used CDbaby.com to distribute it. In preparing to do so, I bought a UPC code from CDBaby. The upc code is simply a unique identifier for a product. In my case the UPC code for the CD points to cdbaby as the manufacturer, but also specifically references my CD. Not the individual songs, just the CD as a whole. So, it appears unlikely that the UPC is used by WMP to collect ID info about tunes, because there is no such info encoded in the UPC I have.
aaaaannnd once again replying to my own post.
quick addition: it seems that this desired info is found by CDDB, now know as Gracenote
No file names on burned files??
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RE: UPC CODE is probably involved ~ maybe not
I'm a musician I recorded my own album then used CDbaby.com to distribute it. In preparing to do so, I bought a UPC code from CDBaby. The upc code is simply a unique identifier for a product. In my case the UPC code for the CD points to cdbaby as the manufacturer, but also specifically references my CD. Not the individual songs, just the CD as a whole. So, it appears unlikely that the UPC is used by WMP to collect ID info about tunes, because there is no such info encoded in the UPC I have.