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[justdan0227]

After taking a single MP3 file and burning it to an Audio CD, and naming it, after burning and mounting the CD, the title of the cd is something no where close to the name of the MP3 file.

Where does this information come from when dropping MP3 files and creating an audio cd?

Thanks!

[holysmoker7]

After taking a single MP3 file and burning it to an Audio CD, and naming it, after burning and mounting the CD, the title of the cd is something no where close to the name of the MP3 file.

Where does this information come from when dropping MP3 files and creating an audio cd?

Thanks!

Sounds like you are connected to the internet and iTunes is querying the CD database and inserting what it thinks is the closest thing. I've experienced that one many times. Temporarily disconnect from the internet and see if it still does it.

[tsantee]

After taking a single MP3 file and burning it to an Audio CD, and naming it, after burning and mounting the CD, the title of the cd is something no where close to the name of the MP3 file.

Where does this information come from when dropping MP3 files and creating an audio cd?

Thanks!

Computers don't read titles from audio CDs. You need to enter that info in iTunes (or edit the info that your Mac automatically downloaded from the online CDDB). What CDDB looks for is a match with the same number of tracks and track lengths as the previously unrecognized disc. Obviously there is a bigger chance for a mismatch when there is only one track.

Edited by tsantee, 08 March 2010 - 08:02 AM.

[Songbird5]

Computers don't read titles from audio CDs. You need to enter that info in iTunes (or edit the info that your Mac automatically downloaded from the online CDDB). What CDDB looks for is a match with the same number of tracks and track lengths as the previously unrecognized disc. Obviously there is a bigger chance for a mismatch when there is only one track.

I'm trying to burn tracks from oral histories that i have recorded and I want to name the tracks and the CD.  I don't want to go through iTunes because it will compress them.  I want to keep them as WAVE or AIFF files on the CD.
How can I name the tracks and the disc??

[tsantee]

I'm trying to burn tracks from oral histories that i have recorded and I want to name the tracks and the CD.  I don't want to go through iTunes because it will compress them.  I want to keep them as WAVE or AIFF files on the CD.
How can I name the tracks and the disc??

Add the tracks to Toast and burn your audio CD. You can enter album/artist/track info before burning the disc by choosing Get Track Info in the Recorder menu before burning the CD.

The first time the burned audio CD is mounted in the Finder the Mac will automatically check CDDB to look for a match. If it finds one it will download whatever it finds. Whether or not it changes the generic track names its easy to edit that info in iTunes (you don't need to import or add the tracks to iTunes). Select the audio CD, choose Get Info from the File menu, click the Info tab in the window that appears and enter the information. After doing that your Mac will always recognize the tracks the way you want. If you are going to be doing a lot of discs I suggest going to dougscripts.com and download the CD Text to cdinfo applescript. This is used in iTunes to automatically transfer the CD Text information that Toast burns to the disc to the cdinfo database on your Mac, thereby saving you the need to re-enter it all.

You can see that Toast wrote the CD Text to the audio CD by inserting the disc and choosing Disc Info from the Recorder menu.

By the way, iTunes only compresses audio files that are added to its library if that is the format selected in iTunes Preferences. You can change the preferences so that iTunes imports as AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3 or WAV. Click the Import Settings button in the General tab of iTunes preferences to see the options. This changes the format described in the Advanced menu. It also can be used to create a second copy of an existing iTunes track to a different format.

Edited by tsantee, 12 March 2010 - 11:48 PM.