Name Change After Disc Is Burned

[sellemar]

Usually I burn disks successfully but today was strange.

I pulled a file from iTunes (approx 40MB) A speech that

was given by someone. The name of the file was clear

in iTunes and the same name appeared in the toast window.

 

But when the disc finished burning and mounting the name was totally

different. In fact I went back into itunes and no file by

that name could be found.

 

Perhaps someone can shed some light is this strangeness.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

[sellemar]

Thanks for the response. It is very much appreciated.

 

[tsantee]

If you burned it as an audio CD there are no metatags with that kind of audio file so the Mac doesn't know what the disc contains. The first time an audio CD is inserted in a Mac the OS checks the cdinfo database file in your Library to see if disc/track info has been entered for an audio CD that matches the number of tracks and track lengths of what was inserted. If none is found then the OS checks the online CDDB for a match and downloads it to the cdinfo file if a match is found. That's why you see the bogus name. You should be able to edit this in iTunes to update the cdinfo file. If no match is found on CDDB or you weren't online when inserting the audio CD you'll see generic disc and track names.

 

Toast writes CD Text info to audio CDs but the Mac doesn't read CD Text. There is a "CD Text to cdinfo" applescript at dougscripts.com that can automate the transfer of the CD Text info to your cdinfo database file within iTunes.

 

[sellemar]

Thanks for the info;

 

I did notice that Toast has a checkbox on the mail page that says add cd-text but I don't think that

has anything to do with it. I did try to edit this in iTunes updating the cdinfo file but no go.

I edited every file I could think of with the toast application closed. I even dragged the audio file to the

desktop the back to Toast. I even closed iTunes shutdown the network and 2 more burned CD's later

the same thing so no matter what I did the finished product was the same. I even went off line

and started the whole process over and still no go.

 

I guess the challenge of how to overcome what should be a simple process got my goat.

My wife suggested I burn the file in iTunes....You guess it no more problems and it burned faster.

 

But I am still going to read over your answer and see if I can get a handle on this.

I hate losing........

 

Thanks very much for your response

 

If you burned it as an audio CD there are no metatags with that kind of audio file so the Mac doesn't know what the disc contains. The first time an audio CD is inserted in a Mac the OS checks the cdinfo database file in your Library to see if disc/track info has been entered for an audio CD that matches the number of tracks and track lengths of what was inserted. If none is found then the OS checks the online CDDB for a match and downloads it to the cdinfo file if a match is found. That's why you see the bogus name. You should be able to edit this in iTunes to update the cdinfo file. If no match is found on CDDB or you weren't online when inserting the audio CD you'll see generic disc and track names.

 

Toast writes CD Text info to audio CDs but the Mac doesn't read CD Text. There is a "CD Text to cdinfo" applescript at dougscripts.com that can automate the transfer of the CD Text info to your cdinfo database file within iTunes.

[tsantee]

iTunes automatically writes the album/artist/track info to the cdinfo file when burning an audio CD but Apple doesn't allow third-party applications to modify that file. However, this only will show on your one Mac. If you insert the audio CD in any other computer it will still have a naming problem.

 

I'm presuming you burned this as an audio CD because you want to play it on an audio CD player rather than on a computer. There are a few car and home audio CD players that read CD Text, but the large majority don't. If you don't need this to play in an audio CD player then you should burn the audio file as a data disc so the file's name and metadata will appear in any computer.

 

Thanks for the info;

 

I did notice that Toast has a checkbox on the mail page that says add cd-text but I don't think that

has anything to do with it. I did try to edit this in iTunes updating the cdinfo file but no go.

I edited every file I could think of with the toast application closed. I even dragged the audio file to the

desktop the back to Toast. I even closed iTunes shutdown the network and 2 more burned CD's later

the same thing so no matter what I did the finished product was the same. I even went off line

and started the whole process over and still no go.

 

I guess the challenge of how to overcome what should be a simple process got my goat.

My wife suggested I burn the file in iTunes....You guess it no more problems and it burned faster.

 

But I am still going to read over your answer and see if I can get a handle on this.

I hate losing........

 

Thanks very much for your response