Burning cd in way that the track names display on audio cd players

[imo]

Is there ant1 that could assist with tagging so that when i burn a cd for a normal audio cd player, the track and titles displays. I know that it works on mp3. Can it work on th enormal cd players?

 

[|tera|]

Hey imo, welcome to the forums

What you need is called cd text support. Most new car sound systems and other devices support this(mostly mp3 capable cd players), but it is not supported on a "normal" cd player.

To learn more about it, view this link
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/cdtext.htm

 

[feo]

When you play a commercial disc in Windows Media Player, it takes a look at your disc and compares it to an online database to do a match up of tracks with their titles. Commercial audio cds don't typically contain track information.

When you create your own disc, no matter whose software you use, it is a unique disc which no one else has and does not exist in the CDDB database. Because it is a unique disc which doesn't exist in the database, you will see TRACK 1, TRACK 2.

EMC 8, like other audio burning applications, can write "CD-Text", an industry standard format of writing track information in a subchannel area on the disc and many applications and devices which playback audio are capable of reading CD-Text so your track names will display. As an example my car stereo will display all the track names I have on an audio disc based on the CD-Text names.

Windows Media Player does not support CD-Text so the names will not show up here.

If you require track names to appear you will need to burn the audio CD with "CD-Text" and switch to a playback application which supports reading CD-Text.

Does the CD Player you're talking about support CD-Text?

 

[Highflyer_GP]

Yeah your player needs to be enabled for CD-text. I know that if you burn an audio CD using Nero6 the cd text displays on the player.

 

[PearlJam]

Yeah, i have done it with nero before. My Marantz does have cd text and it worked.

 

[Juggy]

What is ID3 tagging then?

 

[feo]

That's for mp3s...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3_tag

 

[JTech]

My car mp3 player (Panasonic) does CD-TEXT so I do the effort in Nero to make sure it writes those.

By the way, the only commercially available CD that I have encountered, i.e. bought in a shop, that has CD-TEXT on it, is Whackhead Simpson - Oh My Greatness Hits

 

[PearlJam]

By the way, the only commercially available CD that I have encountered, i.e. bought in a shop, that has CD-TEXT on it, is Whackhead Simpson - Oh My Greatness Hits

I have a few that support that function. It is mainly cd's printed outside SA. I am actually surprised that Whackheads' cd has it also, cool.

 

[JTech]

Yep it's cool, I bought the CD and got into the car and put it in and saw my radio display "MINKI GO GRRR" at first I thought my radio was going ape**** but then I realized it's the CD-TEXT