Audio CDs - how do you include the text information?

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Hi everybody,
Im finishing up some demo work, and i'm having a bit of trouble with burning CD-DA's: You know when you pop in a commercial CD, say, in your computer, and the track list and album titles appear? How do you get that to burn along with your wav files?

I thought this was the function of the CD-TEXT application, but i've been trying for some hours now (with a SONY usb CDRW that is CD-text enabled, and B's Gold burning Software) without success. I have access to wavelab, but apparently you need a SCSI cdburner to use the wavelab burning applications. My disk's burn and sound fine, but the files come out with the generic track01...track02..., and "unknown artist" if you play the disk.

How do you do it, or what am i doing wrong? Is B's recorder software crappy (it came with the sony cdrw), and should i consider getting other software?

Thanks,
T
 
and...

does it relate to the type of CDR you use?

I've tried about 4 demo's of cd burning software today ( a day that has been very well wasted!), and still no results. They all claim to work with my burner (which has up to date firmware)!!! - Window's media player still won't see any track titles though...
 
When you put in a comercial CD your software goes to the net and gets the track list, usually from CDDB database. You can enter your own information into the CDDB, but I cannot remember the link, do a search. Sony does support CD-TEXT but this is totally different because you do not need an internet connection. But, you haveta enable CD-TEXT on the burner software (I use Toast and it's just a matter of a check box, I just looked and it's the same in NERO). But, you also need a CD player that supports CD-TEXT. When it works it's really cool though, my car 10 pack changer supports CD-TEXT so I have different mixes on a CD and the title tells me what they are. Hope that helps.
 
thanks lomky,
yup, that helps.

I tried out nero as well yesterday, and it seems to be writing
the text to the CD. The text will show up on 'B' recorder gold's player', but not on the standard window's media player - so perhaps that player automatically grab's the text from the CDDB....that would explain this!

T
 
What you are asking about is called the CD subcodes.
More "professional" CD burning programs such as, for instance, emagic's waveburner pro and steinberg's wavelab offer these facilities, as well as things such as ISRC encoding.
 
thanks sjoko2;
now if i could only find me a burner compatible with wavelab!

T
 
teainthesahara said:
thanks sjoko2;
now if i could only find me a burner compatible with wavelab!

T
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Sorry, but I don't understand your comment?
Wavelab supports the majority of firewire, USB and SCSI burners, you'd be pressed to find one it doesn't support.
 
really?
Damn, im really out to lunch with this burning stuff!
I have access to wavelab version 3; i tried several times to get it to reckognise my burner, but it never did. I first checked my computer system settings to see if my system in general reckonised the burner - and it did. I looked in the wavelab manual, and the section i read only referred to SCSI burners, so i assumed my burner did not work for that reason. Hmmm...this calls for further investigation then!

Thanks for the heads up!

T
 
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