Bizarre audio CD burning problem

[lx3]

This is driving me nuts!

 

I have one audio track I want to make an audio CD from. Nothing special.

 

But it suited me to make an Enhanced CD, so that I could give my client an Audio CD he could play on a CD player, and also an AIF he could access by putting the disc in a computer.

 

Followed the instructions exactly. However, when I put the finished CD in my Mac, I get *two* volumes popping up - one called "boosh" (corresponding to an audio CD I burned several months ago). Both volumes have the same audio file in them, but with different file names.

 

Then, iTunes reports the audio CD part as being by "Saxon". CD name is "Saxon", artist is "Saxon", genre is "Metal"

 

!!!! I certainly don't have any music by Saxon !!! CD-Text is not switched on, etc, etc.

 

So, I gave up on the Enhanced CD side of things, and just tried to burn an ordinary audio CD, with my one song on it. Now all my audio CDs seem to be by Saxon, and when put in a mac the CD is called "boosh" instead of just "Audio CD".

 

I've tried rebooting, deleting preferences, reinstalling Toast... What the heck? Has Toast permanently flipped?

 

 

 

[tsantee]

I think your Enhanced CD is fine. The problem is that the Mac OS reads information from the cdinfo database file on your Mac to identify audio CDs. If your CD matches the number of tracks and track length as an earlier one registered on the Mac then the info from the earlier one will appear. The Saxon info came from the OS or iTunes searching the online CDDB to download track/artist/album info. CDDB had this match. Once you edit this info in iTunes it should display the edited info in the Finder in the future. But that only applies to this one Mac. Each computer goes through its own routine to automatically identify previously unknown audio CDs. One thing I've done is make certain I'm disconnected from the Internet if I don't want an untitled audio CD to get some bogus title from CDDB.

[Muerto]

I think your Enhanced CD is fine. The problem is that the Mac OS reads information from the cdinfo database file on your Mac to identify audio CDs. If your CD matches the number of tracks and track length as an earlier one registered on the Mac then the info from the earlier one will appear. The Saxon info came from the OS or iTunes searching the online CDDB to download track/artist/album info. CDDB had this match. Once you edit this info in iTunes it should display the edited info in the Finder in the future. But that only applies to this one Mac. Each computer goes through its own routine to automatically identify previously unknown audio CDs. One thing I've done is make certain I'm disconnected from the Internet if I don't want an untitled audio CD to get some bogus title from CDDB.

 

Delete the CDDB prefs and the cdinfo files in your users preferences folder

 

CDDB Prefferences

 

CD.info.cidb