[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

Kirk McElhearn kirklists at wanadoo.fr
Thu Apr 28 07:08:22 PDT 2005


On Apr 28, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Alex wrote:

>>  I think there are identifiers attached to the individual tracks.
>>
>
> There are no CDDB "identifiers" attached to individual tracks read  
> from an audio CD (even one containing CD-Text). However, if you  
> make an iTunes playlist of AIFF files and add tag info (performer,  
> title, album, etc.), iTunes will write the tag in the AIFF file.

No, it's iTunes that adds them when you import a track, in whatever  
format. That's how you can look up tracks in the CDDB even after  
importing them.


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