Song Information?

[Gregk]

I tried searching and couldn't find exactly what I wanted. So I'm trying to burn a cd that has all the song information on it like artist, album, genre, etc.

The only way I've been able to do this is with mp3 files.

Which also brings me to another question, what format (mp3, wave, etc) and bit rate do you guys export in for a cd master? What to the professional producers export in?

Thanks all!

And if it helps at all, I use Reaper and I have Sony Cd Architect.

 

[Morgan C]

Import the files into iTunes, edit the track information (as a group for artist, album, genre, etc.) and that'll change the original files. Works for .wav and .mp3

 

[Gregk]

Import the files into iTunes, edit the track information (as a group for artist, album, genre, etc.) and that'll change the original files. Works for .wav and .mp3

I've tried doing that several times. But when I put the cd back in, it comes up as The Interpreters. I've tried it on a couple of systems too.

I disabled the option to auto-detect it. But it still does.

 

[exoslime]

there is a feature called "cd-text", most of the cd-burn programms can do this, but your cd-writer needs also to be able to write cd text (but most of them can do this anyway)

you setup the informations in the burn programm, burn the master
then all the cd-players with the cd-text feature will show up the artist and titles.

and when you send the master to the cd-manufacturing facillity, ensure that you write on the order form that you want to have cd-text.

DONT Send as MP3.

and what is also good, that you insert your cd into a grabber/player ,for example itunes, and then fill out all the titles and informations, and submit it to the cddb database.
now everyone in the world, with internet access, who inserts your cd into his computer (which will connect to the cddb database) will show then the titles ), and you can also add up the coverartwork, etc

this usually takes some days or weeks to get online.

cheers
exoslime

 

[DestroyTheColossus]

If your putting your CD back into Itunes to check if the song titles are there, it's not going to work. Itunes gets the CD and track information by comparing the length of songs on the CD. By taking the length of each song, and the sequence they are in, it becomes a sort of code for that CD. Then Itunes uses the internet (this is why it will never know what a CD is if you arent connected to the internet) to connect to a database of these CD codes, which send the info back to Itunes. Sometimes two CDs are very similar and thats why it will ask you to select the right CD between a couple. Apparantly your CD has a very similar track code to The Interpreters.

Check it in windows media, i think it reads the information from the CD.

 

[Gregk]

Yeah, I got it figured out now. Thanks though.