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[WDS]

I Am using the old CD creator Vers. 5.  When making labels, ADD Contents will not read my CD info, instead goes to the Gracenote.  I burn from Reel To Reel tapes.  Winamp is able to read the titles ok,  however creator label maker will not add the info.  Need help.

[Brendon]

Hello,

How are your audio CDs burned? Do you have your track details all filled in and burning dialog set to Disc at Once and Write CD-Text, so that you have CD-text burned onto the disc?

I was just using Label Creator 5.3 a few minutes ago, and on the one CD which had CD-Text Label Creator picked the details straight off the disc. All the rest were looked up and not found [??] on the Internet, so listed as Track 1; Track 2; etc.

Label Creator didn't seem to want to obey my Internet Preferences, and still looked up all my other commercial discs regardless of how I had it set. However it should pick up your track details if you have burned them as CD-Text.

Regards,
Brendon

[WDS]

Brendon, I am using music soundstream, adding the titles and artists appropriately.  Yes, sometimes I can add from the CD and other times no way..... guess it is a common problem that was never addressed.

[Brendon]

That would explain it, you're using Soundstream and not CD Creator. Soundstream doesn't write CD-Text to the disc, and without CD-Text all you're going to get is 'New Artist', 'New Title', and 'Track 1 . . . .' etc.

To get CD-Text written on the disc with the music you need to burn a music project in CD Creator. There, apart from filling in the artist/trackname details you must have the burning dialog set to 'Disc at Once' and 'Write CD-Text', so that you have CD-text burned onto the disc.

If you want to check for CD-Text on burned CDs, there's a nice tiny player called HACP, which is safe, free, and will display CD-Text if you have it written on the CD. It will also look up on the CDDB site, but only if you ask it to [unlike Label Creator]. It would be worth downloading HACP from here or any of a hundred other sites on the 'net, and checking to see if your discs do have CD-Text written or not.

Of course, the other way to check would be to try 'Contents' in Label Creator , but HACP is quite independent of Roxio.

[WDS]

That would explain it, you're using Soundstream and not CD Creator. Soundstream doesn't write CD-Text to the disc, and without CD-Text all you're going to get is 'New Artist', 'New Title', and 'Track 1 . . . .' etc.

To get CD-Text written on the disc with the music you need to burn a music project in CD Creator. There, apart from filling in the artist/trackname details you must have the burning dialog set to 'Disc at Once' and 'Write CD-Text', so that you have CD-text burned onto the disc.

If you want to check for CD-Text on burned CDs, there's a nice tiny player called HACP, which is safe, free, and will display CD-Text if you have it written on the CD. It will also look up on the CDDB site, but only if you ask it to [unlike Label Creator]. It would be worth downloading HACP from here or any of a hundred other sites on the 'net, and checking to see if your discs do have CD-Text written or not.

Of course, the other way to check would be to try 'Contents' in Label Creator , but HACP is quite independent of Roxio.

Brendon, I am using the Soundstream portion of Cd Creator....is that.  When I bring up CD creator it has the different methods of burning and I always use the Music Soundstream.

Brendon, I am using the Soundstream portion of Cd Creator....is that.  When I bring up CD creator it has the different methods of burning and I always use the Music Soundstream.

Whoops....I see my problem now.....have not been using the Burn at Once method......thanx, Brendon.