Let Me Kiss You/ Daddy's Voice single - oddity

[The Seeker of Good Songs]

I am compiling my cd's to mp3 to have one disc for most of the songs
I am usig a program called CDex to extract them from CD to mp3.

There is a data base the program uses called CDDB which fetches the disc information, title, track names artist etc.

I don't know how the database gets it information, but for this cd single the information came back as

track 01 - $5 Shake
track 02 - Dr Laydons Theory
from an album titled $5 Shake & Dr Laydon's Theory Two Track RP (Reduced Play) CD

by Hey Pablo!


very strange

 

[Mars_Rover]

Check this out: it's a British band apparently (unless this page is a joke):

http://www.myspace.com/heypablo

 

[Not Right in the Head]

I am compiling my cd's to mp3 to have one disc for most of the songs
I am usig a program called CDex to extract them from CD to mp3.

There is a data base the program uses called CDDB which fetches the disc information, title, track names artist etc.

Not as strange or nefarious as you may think. Those CD-lookup services compute a value for each song (a hash), based on things like the track time. These values are the disc's "footprint". It's possible for a footprint to match multiple discs, which is what happened to you. It's far more common with CD-singles than with full albums, because singles have only a couple tracks. I once had one that matched nearly 20 completely different discs!

CDDB has a very simple explanation of this phenomenon here.
Musicbrainz.org has WAY more about it.