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[Afterburner]

I'm creating cd compilations of songs I have created (they are not in Grace database). When I drag them into Toast the first two tracks might be:
1 My Song-Alvin Trash
2 Cool Dude-The Zits
I check the CD-Text box and record the cd. When I play the CD in my stand alone CD Player which can display CD Text the first track will come up looking like:
1My Song-Alvin2Cool Dude-The Zits
It abbreviates the titles and sometimes runs them together. I am running 2 seconds between tracks. Any idea how to get the CD-Text to display the whole song title and not run them together?

[freshburn]

Click the Info button in Toast on the track and edit the artist and title info there for the Disc and Tracks.  After you burn the disc, get info on the CD you just burned in Toast to see how the CD-TEXT is and if it is correct. 


It could just be your car stereo, or even the burner that is causing the problem.

[Afterburner]

freshburn, on Oct 1 2006, 09:16 AM, said:

Click the Info button in Toast on the track and edit the artist and title info there for the Disc and Tracks.  After you burn the disc, get info on the CD you just burned in Toast to see how the CD-TEXT is and if it is correct. 
It could just be your car stereo, or even the burner that is causing the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion. I did that. The track info is correct before I burn, and after I burn (using the built in superdrive) if I mount the CD in the superdrive and drag it into Toast, then get info for each track it again looks correct. But when I put it in my Arcam CD player the tracks run together. The only other thing I noticed is when I mount the CD and drag it into Toast, the Pause column shows the tracks with either 1 second, 2.1 seconds, or 4.1 second. When I put the tracks in to Toast to burn them, I set the pause between all of the tracks at exactly 2 seconds. Don't know if this relates to the problem of displaying the CD-text properly or not. Thanks for trying to help. Any additional suggestions?

[freshburn]

My guess is the CD Player can't read the text correctly.  Do you have any other CD-TEXT that works in the player?

[Afterburner]

freshburn, on Oct 1 2006, 10:52 PM, said:

My guess is the CD Player can't read the text correctly.  Do you have any other CD-TEXT that works in the player?

Yes, I have some "store bought" CDs with text and the player reads them perfectly. I tried shorter titles and that may be the trick. It seems that if the title is too long the CD player not only truncates the title but then it starts scrolling the title of the next track. So I suspect you are correct, that this has to do with the player more than with Toast. Thanks for taking the time to help me freshburn, it's good to know there are folks out there to lend support. Cheers!

[jizen]

You can check what's on the CD using your computer and

http://www.dougscrip...s/scripts09.php

use the CD text to CD info macro

[freshburn]

Better yet, just use Toast disc info.

You could also so type the following command in the terminal.

drutil cdtext

but Toast works the best.