Thursday, 02 May 2019
Why does Winamp keep trying to go online and access «CDDB» when I play a CD? How do I stop it?
Using the CDDB is an option in Winamp. It’s actually very handy – it goes out over the net and accesses the CDDB site and, based on an ID which all commercial CDs carry, it retrieves the name of the CD you’re playing and all the track names, so Winamp can display those, rather than just displaying Track 1, Track 2 etc. It won’t work if the CD you’re playing is home made or from a really obscure source, but it works with pretty much anything you’d buy in a CD store.
If you really don’t want to use the CDDB it’s very simple to turn it off – in Winamp go to Preferences (Ctrl-P), then select Plugins / Input in the left hand pane, select Nullsoft CD/LineIn plugin in the right pane, and press the Configure button… on the settings tab that pops up there is a check-box for «Use CDDB» – if you uncheck this, Winamp will no longer use the CDDB when playing CDs.
