Question about Windows Media Player

[slinks]

No idea if anyone here will actually know the answer to this, but, when I rip a CD to my computer, where does it get all the album info from? I'm talking things such as cover art, track and band names,ect. It can't be off of the CD itself, as really old CD's still seem to have this information on them, so the information must exist in some giant database somewhere. Now, if that is the case, who is the illiterate fuck in charge of this? I mean really, it seems like every other CD I try and rip, there's some kind of issue with, such as the following;

No details whatsoever
Nonexistant cover art
Incorrect spelling (they managed to spell 'has' wrong on schnitt acht's 'war has begun'!)
Tracks in wrong order (A perfect example of this would be disk 2 of pink floyd's 'The Wall')
Treating Remix disks as the original material (angelspit's 'Krankhaus' and the 'surgically atoned remix disk')
Giving totaly wrong genres (since when has lostprophets ever been concidered 'world'?)

[va!n]

there is a big online database where your ripping program will send an ID of your audioCD and receive the needed information (if available) of your cover and its tracks...

i will be back in few mins... i will search the name of the database... dont remember atm..

[Edit]
So, this is the database where most programs get the infos from... http://www.freedb.org/

[va!n]

If you want or reqired, you can download the complete database to your local drive...
http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/

[Yaloopy]

Get a proper media ripper/player.

[va!n]

Audiograbber is freeware and supports the freedb database, so you can grab your AudioCDs as MP3 and let Audiograbber automatical rename the MP3 to its original titles i.e

[Jim]

->Slinks - if the album isn't in the online database, then it uploads *your* information into the database for the next person coming along.  So all the mistakes are from other people who ripped the cd and got it wrong.  Not sure how you go about correcting it though

Jim