[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Apr 28, 2005, at 4:50 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 certainly news to me. Could you point me to any documents,  
> links, etc., that document this feature? Failing that, could you  
> post an excerpt from a file containing such a tag, to see what the  
> format looks like? Thanks.

Just turn off your network connection and import a track. Go online,  
select the track, then Advanced > Get CD Track Names.  Interestingly,  
iTunes was able to do this for tracks that it didn't import until (I  
think) v 4.7. Now it can only do it for tracks it imports.


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