ok, here's a stupid question...

[farbeyondthesun]

I'm doing home duplication of my band's cd,and I can't figure out how to get the track titles and cd titles encoded on them. When someone buys a cd and takes it home to put on their ipod, I want it to have the cd and track title, not track #1,etc. What do I need to do?

[corban]

I believe if your files are saved as Broadcast Wave Form you can do that, but I doubt an ipod will read that, since it'll have to be converted to MP3. My understanding is that those CDs that have the song titles automatically displayed on a computer are actually using a webservice that informs the computer what they are called based on a huge internet database. I read an article on the company that supplies that service a while ago, don't remember where it was, though. It's probably different with MP3 files, though, and I'm not sure how that works. Try saving with different file types.

[Rock Star 87]

Mp3's can be encoded with all of the neccesary information using Media Player 9+'s Advanced Tag Editor while the online service only works per album. It's called CDDB.

[Farview]

If you are talking about cd text, you need a program that will encode that. Roxio and Nero won't do it. Wavelab does.

[partsofmarc]

Here is a cheap way that might work.I am not sure if this will work but why don't you try importing the wav files in itunes. Rename the tracks in iTunes. Then burn the cd in iTunes. I think that when you open the cd in any itunes you should be able to get the track names. If it works in iTunes then it should also work on an iPod.

[wells]

When you put a title/artist/album/whatever on an MP3, you are "ID3 Tagging" it. The only time i have to do this is when I put tracks through Audacity, which has you can 'ID3 tag' with the Lame MP3 encoder. I'm sure there are freeware programs out there that will do this without going through another program (like I do with Audacity).

[vigormusic]

itunes does it and musicmatch jukebox will also do it

[stickbugg]

Any programs that you use to make the CD, you can write song data too. Even on your WAVs. You can do it in Nero. Once you've loaded the WAVs that you want to burn, right click on each track and there should be an option to allow you to enter the CD-TEXT. Assuming CD-TEXT is what you want. IF not, ignore this.

[Farview]

Originally Posted by stickbugg

Any programs that you use to make the CD, you can write song data too. Even on your WAVs. You can do it in Nero. Once you've loaded the WAVs that you want to burn, right click on each track and there should be an option to allow you to enter the CD-TEXT. Assuming CD-TEXT is what you want. IF not, ignore this.

I don't think nero writes CD-text. I think it creates a database on your computer that tells you what the song titles are. I don't think it will work in all cd text enabled cd players.