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Cue Sheet ISRC and CATALOG values

Ripping some cd's with EAC.
A couple of things that I'm confused on. First, are the ISRC codes like the ones in the cue sheet below.

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REM GENRE Pop
REM DATE 2003
REM DISCID FD128312
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
TITLE "Number Ones"
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\01. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (2003 Edit).wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (2003 Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10313531
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Rock With You (Single Version)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM17900817
    INDEX 00 03:56:33
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\02. Rock With You (Single Version).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Billie Jean (Single Version)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19902991
    INDEX 00 03:40:27
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\03. Billie Jean (Single Version).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Beat It (Single Version)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19902990
    INDEX 00 04:53:15
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\04. Beat It (Single Version).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Thriller (2003 Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10313532
    INDEX 00 04:17:73
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\05. Thriller (2003 Edit).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19909071
    INDEX 00 05:11:33
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\06. I Just Can't Stop Loving You.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Bad"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19909065
    INDEX 00 04:11:48
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\07. Bad.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Smooth Criminal (Radio Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19909073
    INDEX 00 04:06:18
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\08. Smooth Criminal (Radio Edit).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Way You Make Me Feel"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM18700005
    INDEX 00 04:17:05
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\09. The Way You Make Me Feel.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Man in the Mirror (2003 Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10313533
    INDEX 00 04:56:68
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\10. Man in the Mirror (2003 Edit).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "Dirty Diana"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19909072
    INDEX 00 05:03:72
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\11. Dirty Diana.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "Black or White (Single Version)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10312784
    INDEX 00 04:40:45
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\12. Black or White (Single Version).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 13 AUDIO
    TITLE "You Are Not Alone (Radio Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19500411
    INDEX 00 03:18:38
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\13. You Are Not Alone (Radio Edit).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 14 AUDIO
    TITLE "Earth Song (Radio Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM19501640
    INDEX 00 04:34:00
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\14. Earth Song (Radio Edit).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 15 AUDIO
    TITLE "You Rock My World (Radio Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10107239
    INDEX 00 05:01:00
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\15. You Rock My World (Radio Edit).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 16 AUDIO
    TITLE "Break of Dawn"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10110416
    INDEX 00 04:25:70
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\16. Break of Dawn.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 17 AUDIO
    TITLE "One More Chance"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10312582
    INDEX 00 05:29:40
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\17. One More Chance.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 18 AUDIO
    TITLE "Ben (2003 Live Edit)"
    PERFORMER "Michael Jackson"
    ISRC H2KM10312910
    INDEX 00 03:49:00
FILE "Michael Jackson\(2003) Number Ones\18. Ben (2003 Live Edit).wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

I was under the impression the first two characters are the country code. This is a U.S. release, shouldn't the values start with 'US'? Are these probably wrong?

Secondly, the above cue sheet doesn't have a CATALOG entry, however, I have read these have to be 13 characters and are based on UPC codes. In the U.S., UPC codes are 8 or 12 characters. What am I missing here?

Thanks for the help.

Cue Sheet ISRC and CATALOG values

Reply #1 –
You have a Lite-ON drive? I am having a similar problem with a Lite-ON eSAU08 external drive, down to H2 instead of US. It's not EAC's fault; ImgBurn is giving me the same (wrong) ISRCs if I rip an image.

Writing ISRCs, however, is working correctly (if I correct the cue sheet using information from another drive).

Cue Sheet ISRC and CATALOG values

Reply #2 –
Quote from: gregory on
I was under the impression the first two characters are the country code. This is a U.S. release, shouldn't the values start with 'US'? Are these probably wrong?

According to Wikipedia International Standard Recording Code, the first 2 chars represents the "registrant two-character ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code". So the release country doesn't have an effect on this. E.g. I recently received 2 Japan pressings of Manic Street Preachers albums and those have GB in the first 2 chars of ISRC's.

Quick visit to googlerator revealed a link where somebody with a Plextor drive got similar results as you. "I have been informed by one of the engineers that the problem is in fact, a firmware bug." Have you got a Plextor drive and can you upgrade the firmware? That could correct your problem.

Quote from: gregory on
Secondly, the above cue sheet doesn't have a CATALOG entry, however, I have read these have to be 13 characters and are based on UPC codes. In the U.S., UPC codes are 8 or 12 characters. What am I missing here?

Some CD's do not have the CATALOG code. Some drives/softwares could not be able to read those. And finally, very importantly, the codes in CD's are not always correct*! So don't rely on that. I've seen many wrong EAN/UPC codes in cuesheets. EDIT: I use REACT and it's "additional metadata" feature (in new mods) to add correct EAN/UPC code to tags (REACT puts the info also to cuesheet as well).

EDIT: * as in that it's not the same as the booklet EAN/UPC code.