will no longer read CD-TEXT off burned CD

[jamesfrmphilly]

yesterday i was fine. today it will not work.

 

i burn and mix all my own CDs.

 

when i place a burned CD into the reader and i extract the tracks it will not read the track names.

i just get "track 01", "track 02", etc. it was working ok and reading the CD-TEXT but now it has stopped.

[tsantee]

The Mac OS doesn't read CD Text but Toast does. If you drag the tracks from the CD into the Toast Audio or Convert windows they should import with the track title even though the Finder and iTunes show the generic title.

 

You also can check that the CD Text is present by inserting the CD and choosing Disc Info in Toast's Recorder menu.

 

If there is no CD Text present then that option was unchecked in the Audio window when the CD was burned or you didn't burn the disc using Disc at Once in the Recorder Settings window.

 

By the way, a fast way to get the CD Text from the disc to iTunes so that the Mac reports the track titles is to use the CD Text to cdinfo applescript available from dougscripts.com. The applescript runs while in iTunes.

[jamesfrmphilly]

i know that. my problem is that the drag into toast has stopped working.

it worked yesterday now it will not work. i tried the dougscrip and i cannot get that to work.

 

today i cannot get anything to work.

[tsantee]

i know that. my problem is that the drag into toast has stopped working.

it worked yesterday now it will not work. i tried the dougscrip and i cannot get that to work.

 

today i cannot get anything to work.

Trash the toast plist and prefs files in your user>library>preferences folder and see if it works after relaunching Toast.

[jamesfrmphilly]

bingo!

 

while i got yr attention.

 

i tried to install the dougscrip by dragging the icons over the installer as they say but they will not install.

does that mean the scrip will not work on my version of OS X?

my IMAC is 90 days old. that scrip is from 2005.

[Olly K]

thank you.

 

itunes is giving me the stuff right off my mix CD.

 

 

One thing I used to do with "mix CDs" is in iTunes, click Advanced and Submit CD Track Names

 

That sends the CD info to Gracenote CDDB's database, and wherever the CD is inserted in iTunes, it will be able to retrieve it.

[tsantee]

The installer doesn't seem to work. Probably an Snow Leopard issue. So go to your user>Library>iTunes folder and create, if necessary, a Scripts folder there. Drag the items that you were supposed to drag to the installer directly into the Scripts folder. Now when you launch iTunes there should be a scripts icon in the menu bar just to the left of Help. Insert an audio CD that is not yet properly recognized by iTunes and select that applescript. The transfer should work fine.

[jamesfrmphilly]

thank you.

 

itunes is giving me the stuff right off my mix CD.

[tsantee]

One thing I used to do with "mix CDs" is in iTunes, click Advanced and Submit CD Track Names

 

That sends the CD info to Gracenote CDDB's database, and wherever the CD is inserted in iTunes, it will be able to retrieve it.

You also can submit track names to CDDB using Toast.