[G4] itunes song info

[Charles Williams]

Hi, (sending this again to try to work out what I did wrong)

One thing is that to get the song/track  info. you will need to be 
connected to the internet so that itunes can look-up the CD that 
you're copying from in a CD database. This will only work if the CD 
has the same track lengths and gaps as the original(s).

Once a CD has been 'recognised' in this way it should be recognised 
again the next time that you put the CD in the computer, whether it 
is connected to the internet or not. Furthermore, this info is stored 
and shared between apps, so that Toast will recognise a CD that was 
looked-up by itunes.

However, this not quite the same as CD-text. CD-text will only work 
on CD players with CD text capability (e.g Marantz CD6000, Arcam CD72 
to name a couple that have passed through my household). It is still 
useful though, because under certain circumstances the (my) computer 
can also read the CD-text data, for example if you copy 'Track 1' 
from a CD text CD with Toast (by dragging), then in the process of 
copying Toast will read the CD-text data and name the track 
accordingly. Then, if you export the AIFF  (e.g. to the desktop) and 
drag it into iTunes, it will keep its 'name' (but no other info.)

If you're making a compilation CD, then you will lose the CD info 
soft-data looked up by iTunes (because the CD is no longer 
recognisable in CD database, and may not be stored on the computer 
that you've inserted the disk into), but if you burn it as CD you 
will keep the CD text hard-data (the name of the CD is the 
compilation's iTunes folder name)... but iTunes does need seem 
capable of reading this data!

All is not lost as there is a little script called "CD text to CD 
info", and you can run this and it will attempt to extract the 
CD-text data and insert as iTunes CD-info. What's neat is that your 
compilation CD will then be 'remembered' and when you reinsert it it 
will show up the track names (although you will lose the original CD 
Album names unless you to steps to preserve them by pasting them into 
the Names or Artist fields).

Hope this helps!

Regards,

charles





>I there a way to get your burned music to keep all the all the song
>information such as song title  on to the burned CD
>it always say track 1
>
>
>Michael Vogt <><
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