[jimprdo]

I have an immense collection of mp3's. I am new to computers. Ripped all my discs at encouragement of my geek buddy so we could have a huge collection. problem is when I burn an audio disc or a mix from the mp3's as I did for my nephew yesterday , the song names don't go along with it. I used roxio easy cd creator 6 for this. Does roxio 8 fix this problem? does anyhting fix this problem? I don't want to spend an hour making a sweet mix for someone and then have to type out the song list, I just want it to pop up for them on their computer when they go to listen , rip or whatever.
any ideas?
I saw this listed under features of roxio 8, is this my problem solver for making burns and bringing the song names along on the disc?

"Use audio fingerprinting to automatically add title, artist and genre tags to audio tracks including those captured from LP, tape or Internet radio."

help appreciated.

[tbrewst]

I tried this 2 ways.Using Music Disc Creator I burned both an Audio cd and an MP3 disc.When I put the MP3 disc in my laptop and played it I saw the track names.When I made an Audio cd and did the same thing I didn't see the names.I use WMP to play the discs.

I would think the difference is that an MP3 disc is a data disc and all the info was transferred with the tracks.With the Audio cd WMP goes out to a database and tries to identify the disc.Since it's homemade there is no info on it in the database.

[tbrewst]

This might help explain a little more,this was posted by Patrick who is one of the Roxio moderators:

"When you play a commercial disc in Windows Media Player, it takes a look at your disc and compares it to an online database to do a match up of tracks with their titles. Commercial audio cds don't typically contain track information.

When you create your own disc, no matter whose software you use, it is a unique disc which no one else has and does not exist in the CDDB database. Because it is a unique disc which doesn't exist in the database, you will see TRACK 1, TRACK 2.

EMC 8, like other audio burning applications, can write "CD-Text", an industry standard format of writing track information in a subchannel area on the disc and many applications and devices which playback audio are capable of reading CD-Text so your track names will display. As an example my car stereo will display all the track names I have on an audio disc based on the CD-Text names.

Windows Media Player does not support CD-Text so the names will not show up here.

If you require track names to appear you will need to burn the audio CD with "CD-Text" and switch to a playback application which supports reading CD-Text."


This applies to audio cd's not mp3.CD-text is an Audio cd option.

This post has been edited by tbrewst: 15 January 2006 - 08:09 PM