So I put the latest Now Hear This CD into the PC so as to prepare for its journey onto the mp3 player, and waited to see whether windows media player would jump up and recognise it (save me the bother of typing in the track names and artists). Let me apologise here and now for not using itunes on a mac as nature intended.

Cracking CD by the way.

So after a few seconds I'm informed I actually have Jesus of Cool by Nick Lowe in the cd drive, with apparently 3 extra tracks. This was clearly incorrect, as verified by playing the thing, though the coincidence of one track is unsettling (it's not even the same track number on both cds). And no, I don't own a copy of the latter.

The last time this happened, I was informed that the Tchaikovsky cd I'd just put in was actually something by Fats Domino.

So can anyone put me out of my misery and explain just how this "lookup media information" stuff works anyway?

And surely this must happen to other people - any other serendipitous (or otherwise) coincidences? I bet it never happens on a mac...