All My Disks Are Named "rhythms Of The Nile"

[civex]

I have copied some of my tapes to my Mac, and I'm trying to burn them to CD. I was using Toast 9, but all my disks were named Rhythms of the Nile, by Hossam Ramzy.

 

I copied the tapes using Spin Doctor, and there's one long track the length of the entire recording, which is fine with me.

 

I then send the file to Toast, tell it the name of the CD, name the album and artist, and then it burns an audio CD called Rhythms of the Nile regardless of what I've told it.

 

:->

 

I have 3 or 4 different albums on 3 or 4 CDs all called Rhythms of the Nile when I put them in my Mac.

 

Any clues?

[civex]

You're the first person I can recall who thought my Austin-Healey is a Datsun. I've heard it called an MG and a Corvette and a "What's That?".

 

:-> Sorry. Here's a link to a photo of a 1500 or 1600:

http://www.toadhallcars.com/CarPhotosWeb/datsun1600.jpg

I used to live across the street from someone who collected Austin-Healeys, so I should have known.

 

I don't know if the automatic download from CDDB can be turned off. What you can do is make sure you're not connected to the Internet when you first insert the burned audio CD and manually enter the track info in iTunes. That way the OS will already have data entered for that CD and it won't seek info from CDDB.

Okay, thanks again for the info.

[tsantee]

The first time you insert an audio CD in your Mac the Mac OS checks to see if there is info in a database file (called cdinfo) on your Mac that matches the same number and length of tracks. If not it looks for a match to download from the online CDDB. The OS doesn't read the CD Text that Toast wrote to the disc. Apparently the CDDB has Rhythms of the Nile as a one track album that has the same length as yours, so that's what got downloaded and written to your cdinfo database.

 

You need to change this info in iTunes. There also is an applescript called CD Text to cdinfo at dougscripts.com that reads the CD Text info written by Toast and writes it in iTunes to the cdinfo file.

[civex]

The OS doesn't read the CD Text that Toast wrote to the disc. Apparently the CDDB has Rhythms of the Nile as a one track album that has the same length as yours, so that's what got downloaded and written to your cdinfo database.

 

Nice Datsun - is it yours?

 

Okay, thanks for the answer. So it's an OS thing. I assume I turned on the CD database feature in iTunes? I'll have to look to see how to turn it off, now that I'm digitizing my old cassette collection.

[tsantee]

Nice Datsun - is it yours?

You're the first person I can recall who thought my Austin-Healey is a Datsun. I've heard it called an MG and a Corvette and a "What's That?".

 

I don't know if the automatic download from CDDB can be turned off. What you can do is make sure you're not connected to the Internet when you first insert the burned audio CD and manually enter the track info in iTunes. That way the OS will already have data entered for that CD and it won't seek info from CDDB.